The Wilderbeast of Avalon

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The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby biggerry on Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:14 pm

Well I need something to get peeps to click on the thread, I was gonna put NFSW on there but thought better of it :)

I have a crapload of images from this day, however the following four have really hit a note with me, its can be hard to place yourself and your images in a different world when there are so many togs there with so much better gear and so much better positions! Hence I did try and be a bit more creative and look for something more then the crusty wilderbeasts that we now call our modern airforce :D

Comments, suggestions and critique more than welcome, good bad or ugly.

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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby surenj on Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:43 pm

These are of very high quality. I am not sure I can offer much critism really. :cheers: Keep em coming.
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby surenj on Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:50 pm

Also getting a new body hasn't dampened your style even a little bit... :cheers:
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby biggerry on Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:36 pm

surenj wrote:Also getting a new body hasn't dampened your style even a little bit... :cheers:


lol, can't slip anything past ya!
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:48 pm

I like the last the most - it's great.

I reckon the third could have been good without so many distracting things behind - perhaps just one plane in the OOF area.

The first is also interesting - but am wondering what it might have looked like with the mouth of the back end of a jet engine (going or not) facing you at the bottom (assuming this plane even had one :)).
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby zafra52 on Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:03 pm

Two and four are the best of the set.
They have more dynamism than the
others. I like 1 and 3, but not as much.
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby aim54x on Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:23 pm

Congrats on the new camera! These look really good...Kudos for #1 and #4
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby surenj on Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:25 pm

biggerry wrote:lol, can't slip anything past ya!

Tis all in the detail.... :mrgreen: Congrats btw.
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby biggerry on Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:08 pm

Remorhaz wrote:The first is also interesting - but am wondering what it might have looked like with the mouth of the back end of a jet engine (going or not) facing you at the bottom (assuming this plane even had one :)).


the two little black things on the side at the front of the a/c are the exhaust manifolds for the turboprop (PT6 somethign or rather) so no lovely mouth at the rear end of the plane, however I do hear waht your saying :wink:

Remorhaz wrote:I reckon the third could have been good without so many distracting things behind - perhaps just one plane in the OOF area.


I 'll have to have a word to them next time about that, "sir, do you mind if you could move the B52 outta the way? its ruining my shot" :up:

I do have a couple of others with a tighter view on the two raafies which might have a less busy BG.

zafra52 wrote:Two and four are the best of the set.
They have more dynamism than the
others. I like 1 and 3, but not as much.


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aim54x wrote:Congrats on the new camera! These look really good...Kudos for #1 and #4


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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby colin_12 on Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:46 pm

All very nice Gerry.
The 7000 should be pretty nice too. :cheers:
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Re: The Wilderbeast of Avalon

Postby ian.bertram on Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:18 pm

These are just beautiful. I also love number one for its 'different' view and number four is top shelf. Have you thougth of turning number four 180 degress and photoshopping in the ground (just a thought!!)
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