Aviation Photography Blogs

By Raimo Roonet

(Recap) At the end of April I finally returned from a "little" relentless pursuit of my own, having spent nearly a month in Florida with my wife and kid.

How to plan a month-long family trip across the pond to Florida? Squeeze in three airshows and a museum or two plus a night sho...

By Mark Edwards

Ever since the 26^th August 1912, when a pilot named Jean Benoit landed his aircraft on the beach in St Aubin’s Bay as part of a race from St. Malo, the beautiful island of Jersey has enjoyed a strong connection with the world of aviation.  Evidence of the aviation heritage on the is...

By Alan Bland

Having been a frequent (does 5 or 6 times a year count?) visitor to Lakenheath over the last 40 years, I decided it was high time to check out the day dubbed ‘quick climb Friday’ It took a while for the planets to align, (able to get time off work, the weather, runway 06 departure and...

By Raimo Roonet

I have just returned to the Estonian Aviation Museum for the annual Estonian Aviation Days. The event that at some point was like a tradition to me, calling me in every year, like a pilgrimage. This is also the event that started to steer me into aviation photography, culminating wi...

By Keiran Wilkinson

It’s been a few years since 2020 when I built my current website, and I thought it was time to finally build a dedicated website for my photography. Over the years I’ve tried different things like branding as “Fly By Code” or mixing it in with my professional portfolio site and ...

By Matt Holmes

I have never done anything like this before, so hopefully it will all work & make sense! I have had a couple of people ask about my recent ‘vintage’ style edits & it was suggested I write one of these blogs, so here we go…

I have tried old fashioned/vintage style edits before, but n...

By Keiran Wilkinson

Friends of Barton Aerodrome (FoBA) hosted their 2023 fly-in during the first weekend of June. This was the first fly-in after the airport’s rebranding from City Airport Manchester back to the original name of Barton Aerodrome and over 300 movements were made over the course of t...

By Bradley Rogers

A sold out bumper-crowd all enjoyed the British summer weather and of course the flying displays at the amazing 2023 Midlands Air Festival!

The Midlands Air Festival is in its third consecutive and successful year in its spiritual home of the Ragley Hall estate. 

This year saw t...

By Nigel Harrison

Following on from the Merge Meet regarding Adobe’s new leap in witchcraft technology Generative Fill, I thought I’d put up an example of what I found it can do.

I’ve been using Generative Fill for a couple of weeks now and thought I’d put it to the test the other day. This is a s...

By Raimo Roonet

At the end of April I finally returned from a “little” relentless pursuit of my own, having spent nearly a month in Florida with my wife and kid.

How to plan a month-long family trip across the pond to Florida? Squeeze in three airshows and a museum or two plus a night shoot, of co...

By Dan Eley

Starting off in the early 1990s my grandparents (grandfather ex RAF) on weekends and the occasional weekday evening would take me up to the old viewing area at Mildenhall and the warren at Lakenheath. Overlooking the runways with a bag of fresh chips my grandfather would pass on his kno...

By Bradley Rogers