A belated thanks to you all for your comments!

Dan - yeah, probably about 20m from the Esso garage. The evening light was lovely, but vanished far too quickly. Perils of winter I suppose!

My first visit to Heathrow, on a bitterly cold Saturday. The weather was supposed to be fantastic and happily the forecast was spot on, so I headed over on the tube to Hatton Cross and spent the day at Myrtle Avenue. Everything I saw was new stuff to me, and as the light was so nice the selection he...

Thanks all - I was very happy with it myself!

youth wrote:Lovely sharp image, very nice! Just out of interest which lens were you using?

Canon EOS 7D and a 24-105mm. This was at 24mm, and the image is virtually uncropped (just a tiny adjustment to even up the framing).

A rare foray into civilian aviation for this FighterControl staffer resulted in some superb light on the An-225 at East Midlands


Antonov An-225 Mriya UR-82060 - East Midlands Airport by BenSMontgomery, on Flickr


Regards,

Ben

Hopefully someone can correct me, but there doesn't seem to have been any sign of this leaving Riga yet?

I've only done a quick edit, but one of the highlights of the Carolinas Aviation Museum was the A320 that landed in the Hudson.

Lens is working well for you Phill - shame the sun went in though!

Emirates A380 "over the shoulder" is very nice, pick of the lot for me.

See you this weekend I expect

Took this from the Aeropark - just thought it was interesting



Regards,

Ben

It was a gorgeous sunset tonight indeed - even the Ryanairs are looking nice!

You should have come over the Aeropark and said hi!

More of a test of my new 7D than anything else, I finally got around to look at them tonight (too busy designing Gas Turbines for photography at the moment )



Ben

Sam - I've been past on my way to the Aeropark most Sundays, and there is the odd occasion when it is not there - so yeah I guess it does!

Never seen it moving myself though.

Yep, it's correct that the Vulcan is due to attend, but will be arriving on the Saturday and departing after close of play on Sunday.

Just noticed it's on FC anyway - consider my comment retracted!

A nice shot, but surely if it is in Moroccan Air Force colours, it belongs on FC?

Just the one - caught this whilst taking photos of our aircraft at the Aeropark:



Ben

An-12 was still on deck today when I left about 5PM.

That last photo is awesome! Such a wierd aircraft the Beluga.

Good catch on the fully painted Korean A380 too - not seen any shots of that too.

Our day at Finkenwerder was not quite as good as this - although I did find out that they have a great medical unit on site!

Very Cool, especially the last two!

When did the An-124 arrive?

You must have been standing near us on Saturday for that DC-8!

Some cool rarities in that collection, keep them coming!