Boeing Dream lifter

Not very often do these Giants fly over and when they do i try to catch them.

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So many aircraft-spotting threads.

Have you thought about making just one thread and posting all your pics in there?

nice catch!

Michiel>=-

Had no idea this existed - nice work Pag!

I don't understand these types of photos. I can see there is a technical challenge to be able to do it the first couple times, but thereafter? They are not artistic IMHO, they do not stir any emotion (again, my opinion), and to anyone but an aircraft buff, one looks just like the other. I am not trying to bash, just trying to understand. What is the attraction or challenge in specializing in these kinds of photos? Is it like Shortwave DXing where you try to capture and log different stations around the world but the challenge here is different makes and models of aircraft?

bsmotril wrote in post #17653501
I don't understand these types of photos. I can see there is a technical challenge to be able to do it the first couple times, but thereafter? They are not artistic IMHO, they do not stir any emotion (again, my opinion), and to anyone but an aircraft buff, one looks just like the other. I am not trying to bash, just trying to understand. What is the attraction or challenge in specializing in these kinds of photos? Is it like Shortwave DXing where you try to capture and log different stations around the world but the challenge here is different makes and models of aircraft?

I am an Aircraft Spotter I try to see planes both civil and military and log there registration or tail codes.

Enough Said


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You gotta do it to understand it

Michiel>=-

mikeeagle wrote in post #17653744
You gotta do it to understand it

Michiel>=-

So true - its like an addiction over 40 years for me


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Cool shot.

mikeeagle wrote in post #17653272
nice catch!

Michiel>=-

Thanks mate.

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Lupo-Lobo wrote in post #17653281
Had no idea this existed - nice work Pag!

Thank you, they look real weird from the side.

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Perfectly Frank wrote in post #17654168
Cool shot.

Thanks Frank.

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I can relate, people likely feel the same way about the women's rollerderby I shoot. I was just wondering if there is some kine of spotter network or organization built around capturing such pictures.

I can understand your head-scratching. If you are not an aviation buff, it would indeed seem redundant. But in the same way, how many pictures of Portland Head lighthouse do we really need? It has been captured at nearly every hour, of every day of the year, under nearly every weather condition. Yet, if given the chance, I would run to that same spot that everyone else has shot the scene and take a dozen or more shots myself.