Monday 31 May 2010

Chick's Eye View



Tasty! I must be a Willow Warbler, then.

Sunday 30 May 2010

Ermine Moth


One of the visitors to Ann's moth trap yesterday. ISO 100, 1/6th sec @ f/16 on a tripod.

Saturday 29 May 2010

That Tutor Again!


I know, it's the fifth pic of this aircraft on my blog, but isn't the evening light subtle and artistic.

Friday 28 May 2010

New Angle


The Avro 504 was out of its hangar for the airshow and parked in the car park! I tried a different view of it.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Blue Moon


This was taken on 17th May using a 560mm lens. It was still light, so I reduced the exposure until the sky turned a darker blue. The side-lighting accentuates the detail. 1/640th second on a tripod.

Tuesday 25 May 2010

Formation Flying


The Bristol F2b (front) and the SE5a (behind) flying at Old Warden.

Monday 24 May 2010

Red Sox


At last an artistic photo. Notice the differential focus, the little red patch and the lead-in from lower left to upper right. Notice too, how, if you must take off the brown brogues at Old Warden, it helps to have striking footwear.

Sunday 23 May 2010

Just one more of Sadie


Three of my favourite females in one photo - Ann, Sadie and Ruby.

Saturday 22 May 2010

Pete's New Car


We went to Wimbledon to collect Pete's vintage Mercedes 380 SLC. It was a hot day and Pete wondered whether this connector was supposed to be attached to the auxiliary fan for the huge V8 engine. By using the M25 instead of the South and North Circular roads we got a regular airflow through the radiator and the old lady made it to Cambridge.

Friday 21 May 2010

Sadie wakes up


Sadie now has a blog of her own (created by her dad) so she won't be keeping birds and aeroplanes off my pages much longer!

Thursday 20 May 2010

Sadie


Sadie Joanna was born on 18th May. Here she is in her grandmother's arms only 24 hours later.

Wednesday 19 May 2010

The Right Sort of Aeroplane


The Hawker Tomtit. Its turning circle is much tighter than that of a Sabre and the engine is in the right place. And what if the visibility from the cockpit is rather restricted, surely no decent adversary would shoot at you without due warning.

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Off to America quite soon


Thank goodness! Not really our sort of gentleman's aerial carriage here at Old Warden. No challenge to the photographer, either, having no propeller to blur. So long, F86A Sabre.

Monday 17 May 2010

That dashing chap again!


Moustache not even twitching, our intrepid pilot makes a low pass in the Sopwith Triplane at Old Warden.

Sunday 16 May 2010

The Wright Stuff

The wind dropped enough yesterday evening at Old Warden to allow the replica Bristol Boxkite to take to the air. It was flown by a dashing chap with a black moustache, and he had enough of the Right Stuff to take his hand off the yard-long stick to wave at the spectators.

Monday 10 May 2010

More lessons


Another photo of the Avro Tutor at Old Warden.

Sunday 9 May 2010

Red Kite (2)


Unlike the Welsh kites, the Watlington kites don't have luggage tags on their wings to spoil the shape.

Friday 7 May 2010

Black Kite


Shuttleworth's Lysander against a dramatic sky. Perhaps one day I'll take an artistic photo.

Thursday 6 May 2010

Ode to a ...


...Nightingale. The autofocus threw a fit when asked to pinpoint this bird in the shrubbery. but image stabilisation helped make manual focus easier. This is my first ever confirmed sighting of this species.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

That Biggles moment.


The Shuttleworth Collection's Hawker Tomtit getting airborne at Old Warden into a 20 knot wind, keeping its ground speed slow for a 1/160th second pan.

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Looking Good!


After searching bushes at Paxton Pits for Little Brown Jobs, I saw this proud pheasant patrolling the patch around his partner on the nest. He wandered into an artistic area of vegetation ....

Monday 3 May 2010

Avro Tutor


This is the colourful still-life from 22nd March alive in its element. 300mm lens, 1/160th f/11

Saturday 1 May 2010

Hobby

This neat little falcon was entrancing birdwatchers at RSPB Fowlmere today with its aerobatics while catching insects on the wing. 400mm - 1/5000th f/5.6