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Part of teh photo safari on saturday - certainly had some interesting flying machines there, a few that I have looked at and jumped out at me, at this point I am thinking my keeper ratio is about 25%

suggestions or improvements?

That there would be the arse end of the new FA18


Helicopters are not meant to fly, let alone like the way they did on this day, definitely made me cringe - as the saying goes, the only reason they fly is 'cause them things are sooo ugly mother nature repels them from the earth...




burnt pig anyone?

Love the first two here. As you say, helicopters weren't meant to fly like that!!

That last one sure looks hottttt

Awesome shots mate - what lens did you use for all of these the 300 f4 ?

radar wrote:That last one sure looks hottttt

nothing like the smell of kero in the evening ehh...

Alpha_7 wrote:Awesome shots mate - what lens did you use for all of these the 300 f4 ?

yep, I used a mix of the 300mm f/4 coupled with a 1.4 TC and polariser (i ditched that after awhile - chasing them around the sky with different parts of the sky needing different settings was too much hard work). I actually found the 1.4TC and 300mm a bit too long on the crop sensor, also wide open there is a noticeable level of softness - I think anyway

anyay, most images were taken using just the 300mm.

I'm not a fan of the Hornets, but that is a stunner that you captured there Gerry!

Choppers arent meant to fly like that!!!

Do you have any more of the Aardvarks?

aim54x wrote:I'm not a fan of the Hornets, but that is a stunner that you captured there Gerry!

yeah the hornets are about as interesting as skool day, plus they are just too damn noisy and its not a nice noisy like the inline 12 cylinder monsters...

Do you have any more of the Aardvarks

plenty of the fat pigs - but so does everyone else - probably the most photographed machine on the day!

biggerry wrote:

aim54x wrote:I'm not a fan of the Hornets, but that is a stunner that you captured there Gerry!

yeah the hornets are about as interesting as skool day, plus they are just too damn noisy and its not a nice noisy like the inline 12 cylinder monsters...

Do you have any more of the Aardvarks

plenty of the fat pigs - but so does everyone else - probably the most photographed machine on the day!

Inline 12 cyinder monsters of the Rolls Royce kind???

Can you post more of the pigs?

Would you guys speak English?

surenj wrote:Would you guys speak English?

lol, I guess this is gonna confuse you even more then

aim54x wrote:Inline 12 cyinder monsters of the Rolls Royce kind???

yep, the merlins

biggerry wrote:

surenj wrote:Would you guys speak English?

lol, I guess this is gonna confuse you even more then

aim54x wrote:Inline 12 cyinder monsters of the Rolls Royce kind???

yep, the merlins

Spits, Stangs or a Mozzie?

all great shots. i particualrly like the first.
25% hit rate for an airshow is bloody good aswell.

biggerry wrote: surenj wrote:Would you guys speak English?
lol, I guess this is gonna confuse you even more then

Ok Now I am up on the lingo...

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-111_aardvark.pl

Do you think the f111 was doing Mach 1.2 on the day? It sure felt like the sound came after that thing had gone past....

aim54x wrote:Spits, Stangs or a Mozzie?

Cameron, There were hardly any bugs there. I guess we are still at the tail-end of the winter....

surenj wrote:

aim54x wrote:Spits, Stangs or a Mozzie?

Cameron, There were hardly any bugs there. I guess we are still at the tail-end of the winter....

Well looking from Peter's photo gallery I did see at least one 'stang and a spit' but there seemed to be a lack of the bugs....mozzies are really beautiful wooden wonders