Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase
Our latest winning photo comes from Steve Nelson of Westminster, CO. Click here for the rest of this week’s submissions.
Raptor Ready
2012 Rocky Mountain Air Show in Broomfield, Colorado.
Canon 7D, 100-400 L series lens. Cropped and straightened.
Someday ...
Taken at KRFD with Minolta SRT101/Kodachrome about 15 years ago. By the way - the C-195 is almost done!
PT-57 of the Commemorative Air Force Out of Waukesha, Wisconsin
Shot with a Nikon D300 from a T-6 Texan.
What Are the Odds ... ?
Caught this fly-on-take-off roll New Years Day 2013. Cresswel Hobby Field (77S).
Used iPhone; cropped it with Photoshop.
Title #6
Plane over the Swiss fields with the Leman lake (you see perhaps the small sailboats) and the French Alps in the background.
Photo taken with a Pentax K5 camera at 1/500 sec, F 29, focal length 170 mm. The plane was slightly re-centered, and the original file reduced down to less than 1 MB.
Smith Creek Hot Springs
Central Nevada hot spring on a cold January day in 2013.
Taken with my cell phone.
Under the Overcast
Shot at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina on May 6, 2012 with a Canon 60D. Cropped and color and contrast adjusted in PhotoShop Elements.
Winter Bonanza
A typical winter day at a Minnesota airport - and what we'll do to keep flying.
Canon SX260HS. No retouching except resizing.
Flying Boat at Santa Rosa in December 2011
Taken with my Samsung phone at the Santa Rosa Jet Center. Re-sized to 80% of the original for submission.
Canadian Beech Staggerwing
Shot with Canon 7D, Canon 100mm-400mmL series zoom lens.
Inertia Starter in Progress
EAA Chapter 48 at Moraine, Ohio (I73) sponsors the Funday Sunday Fly-In where the typical unique aircraft appear. The now-unusual inertia starter used on aircraft always draws a crowd.
Photo as shot. Kodak DX6490.
Sexy Sue
Relaxing before I fly. Waiting for the owner.
Sexy Sue. 1944 Douglas A-26 Invader.
Tailwind
Taken by me at the Wings and Waves Air Show in Daytona Beach, Florida (2012).
NASA's Super Guppy at Sunset
Taken on an iPhone 5 at El Paso International thanks to a kind soul who got us up close.
