© Javier Salmones (Spain)

The lighting environment is the pertaining to the last hours of the

day. This "Yumbo 747", needs all its 16 wheels traseras to land and

to bear the decenas of tons of its weight, to a velocity of entrance

in trail over the 300/350 km/h.

it is so powerful warm and shining and yet so static and tranquil .

I didn't rate or comment the first time I looked a few hours ago but came back for another look. It kinda draws me in. Who isn't facinated with these giants that shouldn't be able to fly? I really like your perspective and framing. It is much better than just a full shot of a plane landing. Muy bueno! Gracias

Good of you to include this perspective of the landing gear. Composition is wonderful, the way the wing emerges from the fuselage, the landing gear. I notice other things, too, like the flap dropped 30-40 degrees.

 

I think this would be MUCH better in B&W or silver & black. Sepia tone would be a real strange throwback but worth a shot. The only real color you have is on the Iberia (?) stripe and that's only a small part of the picture.

 

I don't know if post 9/11 restrictions allow you to keep doing this, but get in the flight path and take more shots of these. (My Doing this at JFK would earn me an evening with the FBI.)