Air traffic

Spent yesterday afternoon at Tatenhill airfield on the open day. Not much happening but this beauty arrived later in the pm so took some photos.

This is a Diamond DH42, owened by Diamond-Executive Aviation Ltd

This is the Diamond departing, with the MD in the passenger seat. This aircraft had just flown down from Darley Dale microlight field. It was the first aircraft to land on the concrete runway there since World War II, as it has now been cleared, and is a short runway as well, so this did well to get off. The MD had to travel to Tatenhill by car as weight was too much for this aircraft to get off on such a short runway.

A good show of the design of this aircraft, very sleek and sexy. Only £350 per hour to hire

Another view, and a good day to go flying.

There were other aircraft there, which I will update when sorted, including a Firefly. We also got an invite to fly into Cranwell's open day in August, this via the owner of the Firefly that was there, pics later. That will be great.

latest additions and wanderings

I have been doing some different stuff and have added some here.
Hope that I can now improve on them.

This was taken on Thursday evening on one of the Arboretum's evening openings. There tends to be not so many people about and there can be some interesting light at this time of day. Jim and Steve came as well and a good evening was had. The reason I like this view and image is I see it as leading into memories, and is well designed from a building point of view.

With my Dad having spent many years in the RAF this has some memories for me. It is difficult to photograph and I will persevere to get the one I want. I like the idea of the monument in the background.

This is the Basra wall, and with the light this evening it shows a reflection of the monument. In a way this allows one to to reflect on the reason for the Arboretum. Having been brought up in the service life it has a meaning for me as well.

This is Emma from the local dancing school, taken on a Reflex evening I was invited to. Not having any experience of this sort of subject I found it really interesting, the lighting was preset, but managed to achieve a reasonable result with a classic ballet move.

This is Nick putting the final touches to the latest batch of names on the memorial for 2010. What is surprising is that there are now 1600 spaces for names left!

This is Sophie in her flamenco outfit at the same Reflex evening. The evening was very good, but strange having dancers with no music to dance to. I missed the twirling skirt in this one but see the next for this effect.

Sophie again, but well into her stride here, and I have managed to capture some movement this time. Again the lighting was set up already, but the changes could be made with the aperture to suit.

I spent the other Friday night messing about with my light table and Jim's lights and came up with this. It is quite hard to get the lighting right, but I managed a better effort below.

Black country Museum May 2011

Stevie and I enjoyed a day out at the Black Country Museum on Sunday 29th. a dull day weatherwise but a fascinating place and loads of history, with lots of photo opportunites. Shame I missed some of them!

Anyway here are a few tasters

brake blocks on a motor bike?

Chain link-it is big but no scale here

Gentleman's attire

jaws of a lion trap, or river canyon? or?

Miners trolley

the open top tram

Sparky

springs

now my boy, what's going on here? no photo's please

there is no doubt that this is worth another visit but it would be better if the weather was not son dull. the mine was amazing, constructed from 8' diameter drain pipes!!

Preview of upcoming photo shoot

Had a day off today, and so did Jim. We are going to use the same models (shown is model no1, not the car!) and locations, so we went exploring to search out locations, and also to work out how to light the areas we need for our different project's.

Little did I know but with one simple phone call in the morning, we have now acquired a Ferrari, 2 Rollers, a Mercedes and a Lamborghini, along with an E type Jag, to photograph, with a superb location and relevant decorations.

Below are some attempts at getting the model to behave and adopt the relevant pose. This particular model is so hard to work with!

Love the legs James, shame you were not sporting the stockings provided.

I asked my model to adopt a pose, not Bruccy, but James.

Mr Casual himself, loves to pose!

This time the model is looking on the bright side, at long last, but don't know where the spare hand came from????

Mr Casual trying to look naturally relaxed, but he's worried about the go faster strip on his paintwork.

Has Mr Casual got it yet? perhaps he's checking out the multiple reflections.

Trying to drive away, looking casual.

Ah, got there in the end, even though he thought he looked good here, such a casual.

Not again, she is saying you have missed photographing me.

Oh what fun, looking forward to the real thing though soon, just hope the weather holds on the day, sometime in Nov.

Some latest images

Some bale




Down in Swanage



Almost body surfing all for a coke

What you doing Steve?

A good night out

Fountains for all

The ghostly photographer

Nearly there

the eyes have it

a chip off the old wooden block

more wood to cap it all

eye stopping

don't let Flossy near here

petticoat lane for shoes

absailing down Lloyds tower watch it on TV in 3 weeks time

bench

not tied up today

Brighton donut

all blowing away

toot toot we're on our way

just round the bend

oh deer