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The Media folks at the Reno Air Race put on a first rate production. The large green bus is what the 25 morning race photographers take out to the pylon. Once at the pylon, the photographers spread out and take a position based on what they are after.
Some look for basic clean shots of single planes. Others look for opportunities with multiple planes in the shot while others go for photos of the pylon in the shot with the plane. You had photographers from all over the world at the race. it was a hell of good time!
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This is the typical massing of the first lap, in this case the T6 race on Sunday. It’s just out of the picture in the lower right corner, but that’s the pylon where photos like this are taken. You stand nearly at the base of the pylon and the planes fly right down your lens barrel with the roar of the props vibrate the sage scaring up the jack rabbits. As my good friend Rich told our son Brent who joined me at the pylons yesterday, “Once you experience the race here, there is no other place to watch them.”