The Formation Challenge
B-25 "God & Country" and "Betty's Dream" captured by D5 / 24-70f2.8One aspect of an A2A you cannot tell in the final still is all the movement. The blurred props tell you the planes are moving forward, but all the up-and-down, forward-and-back, side-to-side movement...
Close Down … Fast!
deHavilland Beaver DH-2 captured by Z 9 / Z600f4TCThe Fox Sparrows were bouncing around in the tree when I heard Wes arrive in his Beaver. There wasn't time to move, change gear or switch to Shutter Priority as Wes made a dramatic turn and performed a perfect landing....
Love The Bone
B-1B Lancer captured by Z 9 / Z180-600Oshkosh is such a marvelous event to get close to come really cool aircraft. The Bone is one of them. It's one of the few aircraft I work hard at not to fill the frame with it. It's huge so it's a challenge to make it small and...
Where the Passion Got Nourished
F8F "Rare Bear" captured by D3x / 70-200f2.8The Air Races at Reno is where the passion took hold. I was very fortunate, like I always seem to be, to have this dynamo of a nice lady take me in, open the doors, and set my camera and passion loose. With the access Val...
Summer Lives On
N3N-3 captured by Z 9 / Z600f4TC @840mmWarm, clear skies and open water are all it takes to get a seaplane to visit! All you have to do is touch down once, and you're hooked. It's such a marvelous way to explore our world, no wonder they are out every hour of the long...
Can You Imagine?
C-47s & DC-3 captured by Z 9 / Z180-600The sky was filled from horizon to horizon with 841 C-47s on D-Day. The sight and sound are ones I often ponder. At events like Osh, one can look up and gain a glimpse into what it was like, if just for a moment. What you see are...
A Historic Vet, and Whata Plane!
PBY-5A Catalina captured by Z 9 / Z180-600The restoration on this PBY-5A is spectacular! It was at #OSH26 and shown to all its hidden glory. A hidden and silent hero of WWII, the PBY served many roles, including patrolling our coastal waters. This particular PBY is...
Whata Plane!
F8F Bearcat captured by Z 8 / Z24-70f2.8IIIt's home for many, many years, was in the back corner of a hangar. Ignored, covered in dust, not flying, and not loved, there the Bearcat was parked. Then a young kid saw it, and it planted a seed. At age thirteen, the kid...
The Sensual Curve
Beech 18 captured by Z 9 / Z180-600Matt's performance, every time I see it, brings to life the romance of flight! He makes something very difficult and makes it appear effortless. For photographers, his use of smoke makes it possible for us to tell that visual story...
Off In The Distance
C-48J captured by Z 9 / Z180-600Telling the visual story at times requires seeing elements way off in the distance and pulling them in to the present. Case in point. During the aerial parade of planes, there were some clouds off in the distance that, when shot at...