Hampshire (UK) Hogs group & groupies ensemble

UK_MARK wrote in post #17116732
lymington to fishbourne ferry is about 60 quid mate.

Do you mean the Lymington to Yarmouth ferry?

Might have been Richard it was 25ish yrs ago lol.

Locust portrait from my garden today.

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You have locusts in your Garden!!!!

artyman wrote in post #17128207
You have locusts in your Garden!!!!

Well my shed they are live food for my lizards.

Shot this last night bit it was getting low in the sky, may try again today when I can catch it a bit higher.

Great shot Mark super detail
Looks good Ken
Colin

Just back from our few days in Bournemouth. Not processed anything but this shot as yet. Amazing luck to get the exact moment the two Red Arrows crossed.

Forgot to mention that I got to play with an £8K 200-400 Canon lens. Lovely piece of kit, with a switchable 1.4x converter built in. Sadly there is no way I could justify that kind of money!

I understand its quite a chunky beast too. Great shots all.

Cracking shot, how did you manage to get your grubby mits on that beast then?

Ken,

Castle Cameras and Canon hired a council beach hut & put on an event. I booked a one hour slot. They had a 500 and 400 prime plus the 200-400 already mentioned, plus a few bodies, like the 1Dx.

Although the 200-400 is only one f stop better than my 100-400, f/4 against f/5.6, its certainly a large piece of kit. They had three tripods with gimbals which worked well for the planes. For my own work I used a monopod.

Started the long and slow processing of the air show shots. Here is a tight crop of the Red Arrows.

They flew one plane short. Possibly to honour the pilot who lost his life?

Nice shot, apparently the missing pilot was with his wife, who had just gone into labour

Nice ones Richard, and I bet the big lenses were fun. I went on the Sunday, which was the best weather, and decided to take the hit on weight to try the 600L at airshows. I took almost 1200 altogether - with such tight framing results can be a bit hit or miss, especially going for long shutter speeds for prop blur. Here's a selection of hits.

Mark,

Excellent bunch of shots. I was disappointed with the Vulcans show. All it showed us was its underside. I wanted it to turn into the shoreline to show us a side on shot at the very least, but it did not do it.