Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice shots Charlie. I will put up what I got later, although they are mostly ground-based as I personally find anything less than a 135 virtually unusable for taking shots like this. OK...there are some exceptions and the Mustang anmd the Spit on Saturday night were one such. Congrats, Peter Charlie Chan wrote: > Hi, I don't normally post many pictures here, but I like WW2 planes a > lot. Maybe I should just do this more often. Here are some links to my > more meagre efforts shot last week at the Goodwood Revival. They're > posted on the Leica Users Forum as I haven't worked out how to do it > here yet! > > http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/sports-leisure-time/33365-wing-man.html > > > http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/sports-leisure-time/32917-angels-one-five.html > > > Thanks > Charlie > > On 9 Sep 2007, at 19:22, Luis Ripoll wrote: > >> Hi Douglas, >> >> Very nice pictures and you captured very good compositions, I liked very >> much Tri and Crossover. Nice engines too! >> Saludos desde Barcelona >> Luis >> >> >> >> >> -----Mensaje original----- >> De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En >> nombre de >> Douglas Sharp >> Enviado el: domingo, 09 de septiembre de 2007 14:33 >> Para: Leica Users Group >> CC: leicareflex@freelists.org; LEG >> Asunto: [Leica] For airplane fans- more Spitfires and Red Arrows >> >> So, the sub-gallery with Spitfires and the Red Arrow display team is >> finished. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/main.php?g2_itemId=98798 >> >> Terrible problems on all 3 days with changing light, bright sun, low >> cloud >> and light mist, and 1 Spitfire pilot who refused to fly his Spit so >> that you >> could see the cockpit too. All in all I'm quite pleased with what came >> out - >> and particularly pleased with the performance of a second hand CZ >> 3.5/200mm >> lens. >> The gallery is ordered with the 2 Spitfires first, then close ups (or >> tight >> crops of the Red Arrows, and finally, the Red Arrows showing the >> different >> display formations (the names of which I've forgotten. >> >> A little history concerning Whitby and Spitfires: >> The first German bomber shot down over the UK crashed in flames close to >> Whitby, the first German POW was taken prisoner in Whitby, and the >> Spitfire >> pilot who shot them down was Peter Townsend, later Princess Margaret's >> boyfriend - not the member of The Who, he's Peter Townshend with an "h". >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >