On the way home from work...

[Jase555]

I decided to drop in and try out my new circ-polar filter. As always CC welcome. btw, the water really did turn out that blue...

[rflower]

#1 is pretty good. I like the nice vibrant colour in the plane and water.

[StarForge]

I really like the first shot with the Singapore Airlines plane too

[MATT]

I find the first a little busy int he background. I do like the clean blue of the second.

MATT

[carla_d]

#1 is my pick.
how convenient to have that on your way home

[seeto.centric]

woah.. nice shots! the CPL's effect is definitely noticeable.
if i may ask, from where did you shoot from? i wouldnt mind getting that close with less than 200mm hehe

-julz

[Jase555]

this is from the beach/carpark just on the Sth side of the runways - accesible by heading Sth along Gen Holmes Dr, under airport tunnel, then just after M5 branches to the left there is a left hand turn lane. Most of the shots were taken at 300 from the car park, but if you walk down the beach you can get right up to the fence - a step ladder would come in handy to get unimpeded shots...

Also worth checking out (especially for some smaller domestic flights) is the north side, accesible from the beach on Foreshore drive.

[surenj]

Could you get in to trouble for taking these with all these terrorist stuff that's happening?

[seeto.centric]

i think i know which beach you're talking about.. the beach itself is pretty crap IMO
but its alright to walk on - hard and shelley though

if i remember right, its towards Brighton le-Sands isn't it?

surenj, i was thinking the exact same thing.. seems like a pretty easy place to get up close to the err.. target.

-julz

[Jase555]

at any 1 time there are a number of photogs at the carpark, never have a problem there...
Once on the north side the security patrol stopped to check me out, probably for two reasons -
1. Not many people bother to walk up the beach to where you can get decent shots, so maybe I stood out...
2. I was practising my panning technique on the moving security ute... he probably thought it was suss that I was taking shots of security measures...