Some nice work on this thread

Nice! Mach loop?

Slightly smaller bird in my back garden!

 

 

 

 

22 hours ago, Xavier said:

Nice! Mach loop?

Yes it is! About a hour away from me so like to visit as often as i can.

The voyage of the dawn dredger, 5am this morning:

 

 

Wake up Eastbourne, it's a lovely day!:

 

 

Gaz

 

The Kelpies @ The Helix, Falkirk.

Not taken for the quality, but for the content:

 

 

That bird on the wire is a Cuckoo. I was about 40' away. I've never been so close to one, and it was fantastic to see. Made better by the fact it even cuckoo'd a couple of times before flying off. Very unusual to see.  This was out in the middle of Pevensey marshes, yesterday afternoon.  Wish I'd had a camera and lense, rather than a phone!

 

Gaz

Talking of birds, here are a few from Old Warden yesterday. It's damn tough trying to slow shutter speed enough to get nice prop blur without the rest being shaky, especially at 400mm+ focal lengths!

 

 

Yes, I must clean my sensor. I never normally shoot at anything above f/4.0!

 

 

 

 

And the sound of those engines! As much as ICE in cars doesn't do much for me nowadays, a nice Merlin V12 sends shivers down my spine!

Fab shots! I feel your pain trying for prop blur. The Victory Show takes place a mile or two from where I live so I usually go along to get some shots. Here's some from recent years:

 

Hurricane MkI & Blenheim by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

 

North American Aviation P-51D Mustang Janie by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

 

B-17 Sally-B by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

And here's some from the tennis at Nottingham recently:

 

Johanna Konta by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

 

Heather Watson by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

 

Michael Mmoh by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

 

Reilly Opelka by Ben Goddard, on Flickr

Edited 13 July, 20178 yr by ElectricShepherd

Those plane shots are great...  

hoping I can get something similar at the Newcastle Festival of Flight in a couple of weeks...

New member! But loves a good landscape........

 

Loch Thom, Greenock,Scotland by Michael Martin, on Flickr

A few of my efforts from Castle Hill. I find it a difficult place to photograph despite a superb view.

 

 

 

 

Few recent ones from me.

IMG_0174 by Eugene O'Connor, on Flickr

 

IMG_0239 by Eugene O'Connor, on Flickr

 

IMG_0162 by Eugene O'Connor, on Flickr

 

IMG_0157 by Eugene O'Connor, on Flickr

 

IMG_0096 by Eugene O'Connor, on Flickr

 

 

A few shots from the coastal path between Ilfracombe & Hele Bay.

This is the view from my drone of somewhere I recently stayed.

 

 

The isolation and total lack of nightime light was the real reason for this post though as I didn't expect, and certainly wasn't prepared to capture the most amazing sight that darkness brought so forgive me for grabbing a generic photo of:-

 

 

The Milky Way!

 

I think this was the first time I'd seen it in it's full glory and definitely an experience never to be forgotten.

 

A bit of a deja vu moment when I received this video from 'Visit Scotland' in my email earlier today!

 

 

Edited 29 September, 20178 yr by john999boy
The deja vu moment!

Taken on a steam railway a few years ago in the snow

On 7/3/2017 at 20:18, Xavier said:

Talking of birds, here are a few from Old Warden yesterday. It's damn tough trying to slow shutter speed enough to get nice prop blur without the rest being shaky, especially at 400mm+ focal lengths!

 

 

Yes, I must clean my sensor. I never normally shoot at anything above f/4.0!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the sound of those engines! As much as ICE in cars doesn't do much for me nowadays, a nice Merlin V12 sends shivers down my spine!

 

 

Here is my effort to achieve prop blur in flight

 

 

 

 

 

A more static look    

 

I saw these F2 boats at Rother Valley this weekend. Shame there was only 4 of them racing :( But they are very quick and it's reckoned they pull a lot more G force in the corners than an F1 car  

 

 

 

 

Edited 9 October, 20178 yr by Lady Elanore

Went to a local marina to do a bit of photography, pretty challenging place, not what I was expecting, more industrial graveyard than glamour..

 

Anyhow a few of the better poor efforts below..

 

 

 

 

Edited 15 October, 20178 yr by B33fy

I love the slightly surreal HDR of those B33fy. Somewhere between HDR and a painting

 

Here's a couple more from my day out at Rother Valley. This boat is an F4. Somehow it looks a bit more 'sexy' than the F2s, at least to me  if James Bond sent motorboat racing, I think he'd have one of these

 

 

 

 

I had a couple of goes on a hydroplane at Lydd about 40 years ago.  Scared the crap out of me and was enough to rattle anyone's teeth out 

 

Exciting though 

 

Gaz

Do you mean one of these things?!!!!!!!! The chap on the PA system said it was only 250cc and did around 100mph (which it seemed to do, absolutely everywhere, straights and corners!). Most amazing thing I've ever seen on water.