Yes, They Were in the Pacific
A6M2 Zero & Spitfire MIX (both WWII veterans) captured by D4s / 80-400VR2The Battle for Darwin, Australia, was a scary point at the beginning of WWII. The Japanese were battling hard to expand their territory with eyes on Australia. This is when resources were thin to...
Grass Strips Rule!
Cessna 140 captured by Z 9 / Z135f1.8 PlenaGrass strips are a lovely, romantic, and very photogenic locale for aviation photography! The challenge is finding one of these gems to practice your craft. You can do a Google search, and you'll find no list of grass strips...
Time to Find Red for the Green
Travel Air 12-W captured by D5 / 70-200f4A carpet of spring green is one of the finest background sweeps one can find for an air-to-air. Finding a nice, red plane to put in front of it, like this gorgeous Travel Air 12-W (only a handful are flying worldwide), is a big...
Briefing of All Time!
Stallion 51 Cadra captured by D3x / 24-70f2.8When I first proposed this idea to Lee, he hesitated for a mere second before saying, "Let's make it happen!" Moving four aircraft around in the sky for eleven different formations in the short window of a setting sun is...
There’s Light, and then There’s Light
P-38 Lightning captured by D4 / 80-400VRThe sunrise pass at the Chino Airshow could produce some crazy images. We tended to have the whole place to ourselves so we could roam and experiment at will. The lead us (Jake & I) to try photos that logically had no sense of...
The Long Wing
RB-57F "Long Wing" captured by D4s / 80-400VRWe would often see them at the end of the ramp at Ellington Field. NASA flies them out of there on missions, taking this very unique aircraft from the 60's to 60,000 feet! There were three airworthy until just recently,...
That Recognizable Shape
B-29 "fifi" captured by D4 / 80-400VR2Photography is a time machine! My father climbed into a B-29 in both wars and luckily, came home from the adventure. He told me many stories, most of which are lost to time. But the one impression all the stories left was him...
Winter’s Fleeting Light
4e Speedmail captured by D5 / 180-400VRThe sun sets a whole lot earlier in the winter, which limits flying for some. Older planes like this Stearman 4e Speedmail is not equipped with lights for flying at night. Some pilots don't have their rating to fly at night. This...
Cloud Dancing
Waco QFC-2 captured by D5 / 70-200f4"Betsy" is a special plane! I'm very fortunate to be friends with the owner who tapped me to photograph it on an earlier occasion. Then came the call for a cover shot to accompany other images I had taken. I jumped on it. Light is...
The Hangar Light
450 Stearman captured by Z 8 / Z24-70f2.8IIDawn is coming but its light is not much help to tell the visual story, yet. We have many options when it comes to supplemental lighting, but my favorite is the simplest. This morning, I parked the 450 Starman so the light on...