Old Can Be New

It’s human nature when choices are available to side with the rare or sexy. This is real common in aviation photography where biplanes and warbirds overshadow your basic GA aircraft. A lot of the GA aircraft you see flying today were built long ago, like this Mustang from 1964. Recognizing the M22 is a rare bird, a plane I hadn’t photographed before, when I was asked to go up with it, I jumped at the offer. The challenge then is to make the “uncommon from the common.” The easiest way to do it in an A2A is to find clouds. Then, with a nice kiss of light, you have a photo that’s clean and simple, making the client very happy. And when you can do this with a GA aircraft, it tells all what you can do when you have that sexy plane in the viewfinder. The trick, keep in mind that the old can be new.