Hawker Sea Fury

The second plane beyond the Hawker is fine but the print might benefit from cropping out the persons either side. This is a study of a flying machine and its beauty. Other things are a distraction. In this case even the blank white sky helps rather than hinders.

I especially like the glinting cowl and the props.

Museums and static displays are hard to work around. Great if you want a reference for building a model, but tough for anything artistic. The low viewpoint does suppress the plane in the background (a Beaufighter maybe?). Since you already have a plain light sky, you could use some bleach to remove all the background. The result might look too much like an advertising pack shot, however.

Thanks for sharing this image. Very nicely done and informative.

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment - I really appreciate the input.

pentaxuser - my thoughts exactly... but I will cut into the wings (I do have a print like that). my line of thought was exactly as you say - a study of the machine, so I made one with the wings in tact...Also, it was an absolutely dreary day - you could meter off the sky, I think it was uniformly 18% grey (I jest, of course - but it was about as bland as it gets). I noticd that I actually cought some passing clouds on the neg - so I printed the image as a silhouette, with just the highlight on the spinner showing and some clouds inthe sky - well... the bottom part of the image really ruined the silhouette effect...
grahamp, Don Mills - I am glad you found something to like about the image - it really was a pretty airplane with all these shapes and shades of various metals - but yes, the setting was hardly ideal.

Thanks again - Peter.

Good shot. Good airplane - but,
"the zenith of prop driven fighter design ". I choose to differ. The ZENITH of prop fighter was the F8F Bearcat.

I dont know if this is the forum for it... but a) I meant it in a very general sense - there was little to choose between many of these final prop fighters, and b) if you want to get into particulars... try P51H - 791km/h, various Ta 152 variants (or even FW190D later variants), Griffon engined Spit - and Seafire variants, and so on, and so forth. All faster, longer ranged, higher ceiling than the F8. Actually, the F8 barely outperforms a work horse P51D that served in huge numbers on all fronts of WWII. I could go on - but I almost forgot to thank you for the kind words on the picture- much appreciated!