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Nice as a artistic black and white. The leopard is morphing into the background just as they do in real life, until they pounce on you from out of nowhere that is.

"What birdie?"

Thanks for the link Sreenivas. Yes Agne's image selected by the elves as "Photograph of the Week" shows that she has great visualisation and good photoshop skills but that many posters in this thread are giving her credit for capturing the image in camera instead of a being a lovely image made from a combination of three mediocre photographs.

 

I agree with your recommendation that this forum be renamed "Image of the Week" for your stated reasons.

Wunderbar!

Thanks for the comments guys. Yes, plenty of caption options here. I like the trigger fingers and the dubious rifle skills as well.

For myself mainly but I did provide some images to a couple of papers and everything taken to the Airshow Organising Committee and their webpage designer,plus of course the re-enactors , (for which they gave me a press pass ;-) The copyright of all pics remains mine.

Chris, The answer is simple, the information comes from talking to the re-enactors, taking notes and asking questions, showing a genuine interest in them, what they are doing, wearing and driving.

I write and illustrate articles and have experience as a press and editorial photographer, it is standard practice to get accurate caption information.

 

 

 

I do have an interest in things mechanical and like to interact with my photographic subjects to some fair extent (even to the extent of attending the after function social parties, as a participant, not a photographer ;-) Sometimes getting the pics is hard work an we just need to have some fun after!~

Caught my eye, develop it further.

Another succint haiku image Hiroya, very elegant with lovely complementary colours, from one optical student to another, well done!

Very clever composition, two images in one, pretty scene too! difficult to balance all those lights without blowing something out. Well done!

Thanks for the comment. Yes, it is a nice and elegant piece of engineering how the fuselage is 'suspended' between the wings, and unique too I think.

 

I don't own a graduated filter Colin, as most of my pics are taken 'on the fly' so to speak. I work on the principle of getting the main subject exposed correctly and letting everything else fall where it may.

 

Of course this techinque worked much better with wide latitude colour neg than the narrow dynamic range of digital.

This was a single seat fighter Colin with an advantage that the pilot had pretty good all round vision and a good handling aircraft, with no front mounted prop to shoot off ;-) However its advantage was short lived, as it was rather slow so those crafty Germans built much faster planes!

"There's that bloody photographer again Pete, quick, wind down the barrel and blow the bitch out"

 

Film Director Peter Jackson is a major supporter of the Aviation Museum being built at Omaka Aerodrome (Blenheim, New Zealand) both in hard coin and personal input. This is his "time out" fun project and he ain't too pleased to have photographers hanging around when he's just having fun, but hell, if you are famous, thems the breaks.

Here they are all together

The triplane is a full sized piloted replica of the original DR1 Fokker Fighter Karl. Thanks for the comment!

Don't keep banishing that poor man into the cold Ilona, try a small theme of "In from the Cold" as well (perhaps he could cut down the spindly tree and be bringing in the firewood!)

This Fokker DR1 fighter replica, one of five that made an appearance

at the Classic Fighters Airshow held at Omaka Aerodrome over Easter

is painted in the colours of Lieutenant Friedrich Kempf, one of the

menbers of the historic WW1 German Fighter Squadron, Jagdstaffel 11,

more commonly remembered now as 'Von Richthofen's Flying Circus".

Critiques and comments welcome as always.

This is the original Pfalz D111 replica built for the 1966 cult movie "The Blue Max" starring George Peppard. After the movie was completed the aircraft was poorly stored for many years and sustained considerable damage, finally brought by film director Peter Jackson in 1998 for inclusion in his private collection.

 

 

Peter was determined to own the only flying example of this aircraft type in the world and engaged Stuart Tantrum of Antique Aero Works, based at Omaka Aerodrome near Blenheim New Zealand, to undertake the restoration.

 

After five years work the Pfalz D111 is beautifully restored and again airborne. It made it's public debut at the Classic Fighters Airshow held at Omaka Aerodrome Easter 2005.

Hi Chris. It is not illegal to display the swastika in public in New Zealand and the German WW2 uniforms have replica (and original)Division and Unit badges that include the eagle and swastika.

 

People here in general are ambivalent to that particular icon. The only other groups to wear it openly besides these re-en actors (who could be wearing authentic American, French, Canadian, Australian, British etc uniforms tomorrow) would be the outlaw biker clubs and white supremacist group members.

 

We have a fairly egalitarian multi racial society here (I don't think there were many Asian women in the front line Wehrmacht as this pic portrays) and most viewpoints are allowed, but racist attitudes are frowned upon by the wider community.

 

A well oiled machine.

Marty is one of the hundreds of volunteers that work behind the scenes to make the Classic Fighter Airshow successful. He as just completed the transformation of the P51 Mustang to Royal Airforce colours to fit in with the theme of the show. The bike is a Brough Superior classic speedster of 1933 vintage that was a feature item at the show.

French resistance re-enactors of the Battle of Carentan display

defiance while being escorted from the battlefield as prisoners of

the German Whermacht in a recreation of this historic battle at the

Classic Fighters Airshow held over Easter Weekend 2005 at Omaka

Aerodrome, Blenheim New Zealand

The famed T.E "Lawrence of Arabia" was also a very keen motor cycle

enthusiast and owned six Brough Superior bikes, hand made and known

as "The Rolls Royce of motor cycles" When he was in the RAF he raced

a Bristol Fighter plane over 15 miles on one and this pic is from a

re-enactment of that event for the Classic Fighters Airshow 2005.

Comments and critiques welcome as always.

P51 North American Mustang in action at the Classic Fighters Airshow

held at Omaka Aerodrome New Zealand, March 25-26 2005. Comments and

critiques welcome as always

Another lovely image Eugeny, very nice lighting and composition, restful and beautiful.