Here we go the start of another year of photo competitions.... This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for January 2024 and the subject is ANY civilian aircraft photographed in 2023 which has not won or been 2nd or 3rd in either photo comp, i.e. not already in the hall of fame The...

This is the voting poll for the December 2023 SPOTM competition, the subject was Christmas STARS, aircraft with names connected with stars in they type, operator or in the registration. Thank you to everybody who submitted entries - we had 16 excellent entries The poll is open to all registered memb...

entries are now closed for this competition, the voting poll is now available here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=49250

Thanks to everybody who has entered, it appears to have been a popular subject
Andy

There have been some waxwings at Colchester (about 18 miles from me) for about 2 weeks now and I finally went across to see them today, here are some of my many pics. There were about 20 there and showing well.. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53440661003_8424faa680_h.jpg waxwing colchester 03-0...

Nice set, Andy :thumb: Was the convention anything to do with budgie smugglers? no just some old budgies that don't stop chatting about the most inane subjects :o my wife actually warned me they were coming and suggested I might like to find an excuse to go out for a while - I didn't need asking tw...

probably my last visit to Stansted in 2023 and a nice subject to make it worthwhile, this Moroccan Government B747-8 made a brief visit although the weather wasn't as kind as it could have been, bright sun an hour or so earlier :( here's a couple of my pics: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53427...

I went to Stansted last Saturday for a while to take advantage of some half decent weather and to avoid a 'budgie convention' that my wife had organised with her friends - my brain couldn't have coped with that! Nothing very exciting but got some fresh air before the xmas excesses. https://live.stat...

:lol: - good old Google translate! :blush: Best wishes to all and many thanks to the Team for keeping things running - the most civil of forums (fora?). On a personal note, I am very much looking forward to tomorrow being our granddaughter's first Christmas. Merry Christmas, Ian Sod it! - been rumb...

I can't believe that this thread has had over 9,500 views in just one year, what is going on?!! :o probably Russian Spammers that we didn't filter out! , so for all of them schastlivogo rozhdestva, a teper' idi na khuy For the rest of you, have a very happy christmas and an enjoyable hobby in 2024,...

here's my last POTM entry for 2023! thanks to Paul for running the competition for yet another year (I think it's 10 years now!). a change of entry, I've decided to go with one pics of the Moroccan 747-8 (CN-MBH) at Stansted on 29th December: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53427670105_db7c1d046...

In this competition we've celebrated 20 years of Concorde being retired, this month we have joint winners, LondonEye: G-BOAD in Singapore AL colours at Heathrow https://live.staticflickr.com/4892/46118207441_c62ff329a9_b.jpg Concorde Singapore AL G-BOAD 1 Heathrow and Tomcat14: G-BOAF lining up at H...

Sorry,I was in Italy for a best part of a week so wasn't around to access my PC. I am back in the cold of the UK now so here are the results: we have joint winners, LondonEye: G-BOAD in Singapore AL colours at Heathrow and Tomcat14: G-BOAF lining up at Heathrow on 14 July 1991, well done to both of ...

I entered another photo of thin in this month's SPOTM and whilst I was editing it I decided to do a few more as it's such a lovely beast, here we go: the first two I re-edited: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53396413247_87277d0ae2_h.jpg HB-RSC Super Constellation Breitling Duxford 11-07-2014 94...

some lovely entries so far thanks, here's mine - a collection of stars aka a Constellation :D The superb Breitling Super Constellation HB-RSC taxiing in at Flying Legends (Duxford) on 11-07-2014 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53397526505_a58d3ba70f_h.jpg HB-RSC Super Constellation Breitling Dux...

Now that 2023's calendar is completed, here are the subjects for 2024. I hope there are a good range of subjects to suit everybody January: any civil aircraft photographed in 2023 which has not been placed in a photo comp so not in Hall of fame February: F is for February and for Fokker so Fokker ai...

This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for December 2023, the subject is ‘Christmas Stars' The subject of your entry should be a photo of any civilian registered aircraft with STAR or a word connected with stars (such as constellation or astra) in it's name or if it's an airliner...

voting in now open here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=48985

please support the competition by voting
Andy

This is the voting poll for the November 2023 SPOTM competition, the subject was remembering Concorde, 20 years retired Thank you to everybody who entered, we have 13 excellent entries to choose from The poll is open to all registered members but you must be signed in to vote. Please submit your THR...

I spent a couple of hours at Stansted this morning, making the most of the sunny weather, here are some of my results.. some cargo flights departing..... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53384918429_970f1dff5f_h.jpg HL7420 B747-F Asiana Cargo Stansted 08-12-2023 1869 by Andrew Goldsmith , on Flic...

tasty Denis, especially the 747.
thanks for posting them
Andy