I spent an hour or so at STN on Tuesday before going on to the Air Britain meeting, partly because I hadn't visited Stansted since February apart from early morning and evening for my flights to/from Bologna and partly to try using back button focussing for the first time having read others' experiences of it on here. I have to say I found it generally quite easy although I opened up live mode a couple of times by mistake
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as the button was very close to the AF-ON but otherwise okay. I had one or two very out of focus (probably me - PICNIC) but the others seemed fine.
here's my efforts, the sun came and went a few times but the light just before sunset was very nice....
0041 N863FD B777 Fedex STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0068 N863FD B777 Fedex STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
this Western Global MD.11 created loads of smoke on touchdown and the tower told him to hold for a while to check for tyre damage , I think he blew one and also there was a quick runway inspection, the fire services escorted it right to his stand where it was inspected
0181 N512JN MD11 Western Global STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
Ryanair still have this 737 in the National Express coaches scheme
0219 EI-EMK B737 Ryanair National Express scheme STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
G.5 N700HA landing
0252 N700HA Gulfstream G.5 STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0261 N700HA Gulfstream G.5 STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
3 of the FedEx Md.11, hope they last a few more years (Martinair will stop using theirs' this year so I need some better pics of them soon),
0311 N614FE MD11 Fedex STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0329 N614FE MD11 Fedex STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0337 N614FE MD11 Fedex STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0358 G-EZDK A319 EasyJet STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
a cropped pic of the Qatar A330
0382 A7-AFH A330 Qatar Airways, front STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
and the full aircraft off into the evening sun...
0388 A7-AFH A330 Qatar Airways STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
some just before the sun disappeared
0445 EI-FOG B737 Ryanair STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0475EC-GQA Emb120 Swift Air STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0495 D-AGWR A.319 Germanwings STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
and sun gone...
0531 N723FD A300 Fedex STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
then three on the northside (getting very dark)
0550 N700HA Gulfstream G.5 STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
0540 N360HP Bombardier Global Express BD-700 STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
shame about all the posts in the way, I challenge a photoshop expert to remove that lot!...
0552 N444HE B737 STN 5-4-2016 by
Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
hope they are of interest, thanks for looking. BBF seems the way forward for me now.
there are a few more here as well if you are interested:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125470545 ... 4408119564
C&C welcome
Andy