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Tree Branch Patterns with Plane Trail

Tree Branch Patterns with Plane Trail

Sky photos always interest me and living near a busy international airport most of my life I have seen a lot of great views of nice skies with interesting plane trail patterns in the sky. This one isn’t the most interesting by a long shot but I felt that the winter branches coupled with the orange plane trail looked interesting enough to publish. It is often the case with photography that we walk past potential photo opportunities every day of our lives, if only we had walk by and seen the subject from a slightly different angle we might have seen the photo in our minds. This photo was taken back in January 2006, nearly twelve months ago (how time flies) and I was going to be ten minutes early to meet a friend so rather than hanging around outside his house till he was available I just walked slower and took my time and found this photograph by simply looking a little more at my surroundings, you never know what you might find!

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Red Arrows – Southport Air Show

Red Arrows - Southport Air Show

I really enjoyed last years Southport Air Show and after some great feedback on my blog post from last year I decided I really wanted to go back and this time see the Red Arrows as last year I left early to avoid to traffic but missed their display. The weather this morning was cloudy and it got worse as I headed into Southport. Fortunately the Red Arrows display was the first thing on the program this year and I got half a dozen interesting photographs although I am still limited by a short zoom lens on my camera. The weather got much worse and so I mistakenly decided to leave and head home after the first two or three displays. Evidently the weather got much better as soon as I left and the sun came out. Oh well, I got what I went for, my first Red Arrows display photo.

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Thomson Plane – Manchester Airport

Thomson Plane - Manchester Airport

After a long weekend of sorting through junk and effectively spring cleaning I wanted to get out there and get some photos taken. It has been raining steadily all weekend but as afternoon turned to evening the sun came out so I grabbed my camera and borrowed my dad’s digital SLR and jumped on my bike down to Manchester Airport for a bit of plane stopping photography. The light was falling fast and although I snapped over 300 images very few were decent, despite using my newly found tripod and monopod. I found a better area for plane viewing this visit but I will have to go back one morning early when there is better light to get more interesting results.

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British Airways Plane – Manchester Airport

British Airways Plane - Manchester Airport

After last nights unsuccessful trip to the airport’s viewing area I went again, but this time about an hour or so earlier. It was open and was a lot bigger than I remember it being. I saw Concorde and numerous other aircraft on display. There were more people there than I expected but very few planes were taking off and landing. Maybe only half a dozen in the hour or so I spent there. Tonight’s sunset wasn’t quite as magical as last nights, and I could have done with a longer lens to get closer to the planes but I thought I would share this image with you.