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What an amazing, amazing week! In the last two days I’ve shot everything from corporate portraits to group PR portraits to pylon racing to air to air with a five ship T6 flight. I’ve been averaging 8000 images a day and loving every moment! The shooters, RARA volunteers, ground crews and the pilots (who I’m getting to know more and more) make this THE event in my books. I have 105GB of unedited images from that last two days of shooting, uploading until 1am and back at 5am on the flight line shooting filling up cards again. I’m bone tired, beaten up from the air to air and in the Nikon Center (rather then being a field rep today) today just trying to get caught up. We’re making plans for Oshkosh (end of July), lining up new air to air projects and editing images and thoughts I would through up one.
This gorgeous P-51D owned by Chuck Greenhill is painted up in the original Yellow Jacket Squadron and is part of the Unlimited Class. One of the best things about the June PRS are the afternoon thunderheads that hopefully form. On this day, we had some nice clouds so I positioned myself so if the planes stayed on the right track running the course, it would put them in front of the clouds. On this pass, I scored. I’ve been experimenting and pushing my photography this week. My keeper rate has gone down but the number of “cool” and “romantic” images has gone up. I’m a very happy and tired shooter!
Photo captured by D3s, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film