smoking on start



taken from the roof at schiphol on a freezing february day when the minus eight temperatures really showed the smoke on start to its best, only camera to hand was a pocket compact so not the best shot

I also agree that the first panning shot is very nice and works well

the last couple of shots look very cold and wintery well done for braving the weather

even with a bit of cropping after scanning you can see that you had good technique, and as you say getting the settings right was an art, could you really rely on the little red needle waving about on the left hand side of the view finder to tell you when you had it right was your camera the Praktic...

now that is a day i would have liked to have been at heathrow, russian heavy metal is awesome :thumbs: andy i also think your photography skills deserve a thumbs up :thumbs: your framing and panning skills have obviously been honed over the years and the framing on all these shots is very good in 19...

I have never really done any photography from the Esso garage I will have to give it a try I tend to try and arrange our visits to coincide with the myrtle ave rotation so you have most of the day with landing shots that everybody has got, I like the idea of trying somthing a bit different and will ...

The QB was still open in 1986 when I made my first visit to LHR. I think by mid-1987 the QB was no longer accessible, but the T2 roof gardens still were. They finally closed in the late 1990s, or perhaps even the very early 2000s - I heard because access was not possible for wheelchair users, altho...

you used to get some very interesting aircraft at southen back in the day

last year we were looking at a shorts belfast in the museum at cosford and we were saying that it has similar lines to the new Airbus A400m bar the tail plane

what year did the heathrow runeways change from 28/10 to 27/09?

you ceartinaly get to some interesting places, another nice set thanks for sharing

Hi and welcome to the boards

Nice first post with some great photos

were they taken on the southern perimeter road near the Esso garage or were you a bit further out?

some very nice shots again Andy, you got some nice jelly air in a few of your shots

you get rewarded with some nice cargo and biz jets at stansted, its a real shame we don't get more at manchester

Mike
I think the second Etihad A330 is a much more aesthetically pleasing shot, it is nice to have a clear uncluttered background but it is not always possible

andy the whole of the new runway has great vantage points as there is a public footpath that runs the whole length and you also have a river tunnel under the runway which give access to spots between the two runways so good when the are using the 05 runways it is a shame that the new runway is only ...

Nope,, the mud is horrendous all along the 23L footpath. Some places it's ankle deep so I didn't bother walking too far as a quick trip down the slope to the fence was always a possibility :-( Mike I will definitely go better prepared next time, when i came off the south side i had a trip to the tr...

Mike wrote:I missed these when you posted them, they are excellent - every one of them.

Thanks Mike, the mud i had to wade through to get them was really bad and i nearly turned back at one point but glad i didnt now.

always nice to see a 727 which is becoming an increasingly rare beast

I always love it when i get to see the 2EXCEL oil response 727 which is the only 727 i seem to see in the UK these days

very nice set mike i really like the easy jet starsky and hutch with the moon under it

you look to be a bit further down than i was the other day, hope it was less muddy down there

Thanks for the nudge andy

Just added one more into the photo of the year comp as i had missed that one

here is my entry for POTY taken July 2015



Emirates 777-300 turning onto runway 23L taken from the south side at manchester

originally posted here http://www.civilianaviation.co.uk/forum ... hp?t=22563

a very nice set of photos again, and some very interesting airframes