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Ian Allan Aviation Tours is a sister company to COAP. Hailing from the days when this bunch of characters were young-ish, Ian Allan has been providing spotting tours and steam-driven, illustrated publications for railway geeks and latter-day, aviat...
“My memories are inside me - they’re not things or a place - I can take them anywhere”
I went to Andravida with no expectations, well none apart from getting up close to some of the last remaining Phantoms in active service. Getting close was just a part of a glorious couple of d...
When the A380 was introduced by Airbus in October 2007, its was expected that the world’s largest passenger aircraft would be flying for decades to come. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
In 2019, Airbus announced it would stop production of the A380 due to the lack of sales. The ...
I’m writing this the day after the TLE Wattisham Apache shoot. A difficult day, with difficult conditions. Certainly not the best shoot I’ve attended, not the worst though.
Organisers have a tough enough time getting events like this sanctioned, so to get on an active base and clo...
The magic of Adobe Lightroom masking gives us one of the best tool sets for aviation photography. The ability to change the levels on the aircraft, sky and background independently means even the flattest image can pop.
This image of an RAF C-130 Hercules was was shot from Cad Ea...
Photo Storage – Local, USB, NAS or Cloud
A little origin story for my latest post with the 747 head-on shot.
It was back in 2012, I had bought my first DSLR just over 2 years before and was taking first cautious steps towards aviation photography. But even then I knew I wanted something more out of my aviation photo
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Including People in Your Aviation Pictures
I will start with a confession…. I find taking pictures of static aircraft a bit dull.
I know, controversial. Maybe if there is an interesting sky or a good puddle I might be engaged for a few minutes, but that will be about it. What I...
RAF F-35B Edit Walkthrough - Making Flat Skies Pop!
I’m a regular user of the Lightroom mobile platform. Since they introduced the masking features in October 2021 it has drastically improved my editing capabilities massively.
First of all I start with the corrective parts, enabli...
Sometimes we all find that moment as we gradually slip into a rut with our aviation photography, whether it be due to life in general, health or just family and work commitments it happens to the best of us.
It’s how we react and pursue our photography during the ruts which differs bet...
The first trip of the year, a quick couple of days at Payerne Air Base between Lausanne and Bern, home to 17 and 18 Squadrons of the Swiss Air Force.
This trip was all about timing, I visited while the World Economic Forum was taking place in Davos which requires the Swiss Air For...
It is that time of year to set a New Year resolution. Get fit, give up chocolate etc. Mine is to make more effort to mix up my aviation pursuit to seek out something different; either an airframe, location or time of day.
There is nothing like cracking on with a goal. The first F...
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