Kev Baxter explores an option that allows aviation enthusiasts the chance to photograph aircraft in their natural environment – the sky
It will be no exaggeration to say that most FlyPast readers will have pointed a camera upwards to photograph an aeroplane. Some camera users have the skill, or luck, it takes to capture something they deem worthy to print and hang on their wall or place in an album for their own enjoyment. Others will have been fortunate enough to have their work published in magazines and online.
However, there is little doubt that almost every reader will have marvelled at the images of aircraft where they belong – taken by lens-toting luminaries such as Charles E Brown and Russell Adams. Even today, there is a cachet surrounding the likes of Darren Harbar, Gavin Conroy, Katsuhiko Tokunaga, Richard Paver and John Dibbs – all revered for their talent.
Chris Allen, Charles J ‘Heater’ Heatley III and Ian Black were fortunate to fly fast jets for a living, which provided them brief moments to ‘shoot’ subjects against backdrops that mere amateurs could only dream of. In an attempt to emulate these images, large numbers of photographers head for the hills. Looking down on military aircraf…
