
Smoke a Friend?
F-15 Driver captured by Z 9 / 180-400VRSpent a great weekend with my dear friend Chris at the Barksdale AFB airshow. A great airshow featuring our modern military also had many performers who puff smoke. Smoke is used to help those who don't fly a sense of the flight...

Projects Just Take Time
Kermit Week's A-26B Invader 12.27.12 captured by D4 / 24-70f2.8I was working on another project at AeroTrader, Chino, CA airport the same time doing some shooting with Kermit & Paul at Fantasy of Flight, FL. This back in 2010-12. Kermit asked since I was in the...

Spam I Like
Super Cub captured by D4s / 80-400VR2The office phone rang this morning, the iPhone dutifully telling Sharon it was Spam. The I.D. said the call was coming from Helena, our state capitol. Sharon answered it and on the other end was the MT DOT Aeronautics Board telling...

The Vagabond … An Old Classic!
PA-17 Vagabond in the pattern captured by Z 9 / 180-400VRWe plan our arrival for about an hour before sunset. There are always planes in the pattern so once we're on the field, we park behind the hangar and the camera comes out. I couldn't get the Z 9 / 180-400VR out...

It Must Be Fall
Cessna U206F captured by Z 9 / Z400f4.5Not that it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but it sure do seem like it when all the elements fall into place. Lake Hood Aerodrome in Anchorage (PALH) is the busiest seaplane base in the US and as far as I am concerned, the...

Osh Sunrise – Be There!
B-25J "Devil Dog" captured by D4 / 18-35AFS Osh, better known as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has begun with aircraft flying in as I type. It's just simply the greatest event on so many levels! For the photographer wanting unfettered access to aircraft you'd otherwise never...

Think Inside the Box
Luscombe T8F captured by D5 / 14-24f2.8 w/SB-5000We can bring "life" to our aircraft by visually speaking about those that take them into the skies. Even if there is no pilot, where pilot's apply their skills, the cockpit, is a place most everyone understands is where...

Round Engine Roundup Wahoo!
Staggering D17S coming for a landing captured by Z 9 / 180-400VRThe annual Staggerwing Club meeting was a go again after the forced couple of years hiatus. It was going to be a giant event, that's until the weather decided to get involved. The same weekend that saw...

It Doesn’t take A Jet for A Jet
Cessna CJ4 captured by D5 / 70-200f4If you're like me, you might think that photographing a jet in an air-to-air photo mission requires a jet. In some cases, it most definitely does, but not in every case. This photo mission a few years back was done with the photo...

Start In The Safe Zone
Cessna 140 captured by D4s / 80-400VRIINo, not sexy, not a warbird but photographing your very basic GA aircraft is nothing but great! You can learn so much, do so much and grow your portfolio so much by working with what some think as the lonely aircraft. Put your...