Red Arrers

a shot made yesterday at the Southend 'Festival of the Air'. A free airshow held each year over the Thames Estuary in front of Southend. This year crowds were estimated at 500,000.

These are the Red Arrows, the RAF display team. They are the best of the best.
Location
Southend-on-Sea, England.
Equipment Used
Nikon F80, 70-300mm Nikkor zoom.
Exposure
not noted
Film & Developer
Fuji Superia 200 lab processed
Paper & Developer
Lab print, Fuji Crystal Archive
Great composition, Andy! To make these photographs interesting is difficult. Well done!
 
Thank you all for your kind comments. Truth be told this was the best of a bad bunch (twenty or so shots). I say bad bunch because after using a manual focus camera for so long (Bessa R3M), I forgot the F80 as well as auto-focus also has focus tracking. So all shots were manually focused while trying to track aircraft traveling at a few hundred miles an hour!
You can see a few more shots on my Flickr page.
 
Fantastic shot, Andy. Very dynamic composition good balance of tones, blah!, blah! It's going in my favourites!
 
Blimey, your pretty cool about this one. I would have been jumping around the room if I had made this one! You couldn't have got a better composition.

Very well done indeed.



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