rob_ww wrote:
Just astonishing how close together these planes can fly. For a moment I thought it must be a Photoshop creation!
Thank you Rob. Aside from the compression effect of the long tele lens, The USAF Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angles do fly very tight in some formations, as tight as 18" wingtip to wingtip. As the show season moves along, they may even get closer than 18" as team confidence and experience are building higher. I won't even drive 18" from the next car. It's not unheard of that their wingtips touch one another during air turbulence. Incredible training, practice, skills and guts!
For shits and giggles, I am posting a few more shots of the tight formations of the Thunderbirds. BTW, I will get to see the British Red Arrows again in 2 weeks. They are coming.
ILCE-1M2FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS lens800mmf/8.01/4000s400 ISO-1.0 EV
ILCE-1M2FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS lens800mmf/8.01/3200s250 ISO-0.7 EV
ILCE-1M2FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS lens800mmf/8.01/4000s500 ISO-1.0 EV
ILCE-1M2E 50-400mm F4.5-6.3 A067 lens129mmf/8.01/3200s640 ISO-1.0 EV
ILCE-1M2FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS lens400mmf/6.31/4000s500 ISO-1.0 EV
Thanks. We had the Red Arrows fly over our house on Saturday, on their way to fly over Buckingham Palace for the official King's Birthday celebrations. Alas, I do not have a lens long enough to capture them at altitude!
Another from my trip last week to the Blue Ridge mountains with the new A7R6, photographing a foggy woodlands which is one of my favorite conditions and subjects in the landscape.
ILCE-7RM6E 28-75mm F2.8 A063 lens28mmf/10.01/60s1250 ISO0.0 EV
regulator wrote:
Iberian Lynx. Down to about 100 left at the turn of the century, there are over 2,000 today in two regions of Spain. A great comeback story.
What a beautiful cat! That must have been an awesome experience.
Buffy fish owl in a coastal town on West Java; it was perching and preening on a block wall. I am not sure whether it was somebody's pet or not. I wasn't expecting to encounter an own at all and this was the only lens I had that time.
I was framing a low level picture of this movie theater in Nice when this old man walked into the shot coming right for me. I liked it better than just the theater!
mudlake wrote:
I was framing a low level picture of this movie theater in Nice when this old man walked into the shot coming right for me. I liked it better than just the theater!
. It's not unheard of that their wingtips touch one another during air turbulence. Incredible training, practice, skills and guts!
