Picture of the Week: AVweb's Reader-Submitted Amateur Aviation Photo Contest

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Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings - and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap as our "Picture of the Week." Want to see your photo here? Click here to submit it to our weekly contest.

Concentration? ... Yep!

Robert Bayal of Katikati, RD (New Zealand)

Low level spraying of a small Athenree Bay avocado orchard. Ground spraying is limited with the trees, so the use of the helicopter is vastly superior. And the show is better. Bay of Plenty, NZ. Nikon D300 70-200. Converted in CS5 camera raw, then cropped.

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Cessna Sunset

Dale Walker of New Wilmington, PA

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Baldwin County (KMLJ), Runway 10

John Chattin of Aiken, SC

Canon Power Shot. Late morning, November 2010. Shot by Bea Kuhlke (right seat).

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Motorgliding Magic

Trevor R. Mills of Brisbane, QLD (Australia)

An RF5B Fournier imported to Australia from Georgia, USA.

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Icarus

Gilbert Benzonana of Grand-Lancy, Geneva (Switzerland)

Photo taken with a Pentax Optio P80 camera at 1/160 sec, F 13.8, focal length 16 mm. Statue of Icarus, control tower and part of the tarmac of the Grenchen airport near Bern in Switzerland.

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Jumbo Reflection

John Ousterhout of Keizer, OR

A retired Boeing 747 tops the Evergreen Waterpark (opening in 2011) located next to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. When I spotted this reflection, I waited for dusk. Nikon D40, 55-200mm Nikon VR lens. Image cropped and brightness adjusted slightly.

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