So, I love spotting. That means spotting when the airport is suboptimal. Spotting when the spot is suboptimal. Spotting when the conditions are suboptimal. I try to spot everywhere even mildly interesting, wherever I go. This is great for developing your ability to get good photos out of mid raw shots, but it also leads to a LOT of extra photos on your disk. Today, I complied seven photos from my last year of travels of the extras - the photos I love but the sessions they’re from weren’t good enough to do an entire topic.
Gear: Sony α7R IV + α7iii & Sony 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2
Air Baltic A220-300 “Latvian Flag” @ LSZH 08MAR24
I hate those stupid wispy cirrus clouds that block golden hour
Not every place can be a nice summer evening at Osaka Itami, or a sunny winter day at Meiringen Air Base, or an hour in a helicopter above Los Angeles International - and you know what? That’s fine. If we didn’t have “regular” sessions like these we wouldn’t be appreciative of sessions like those. “Ye know not the highs ‘til ye’ve wallow’d the lows” ahh comment Andrew just stick to fuel burn
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I did some poking around and I think you’re right, there are definitely a ton of them on the Omani coast. The thing with NYC airports and engine light is that the only way to do it right now is to get 13L arrivals at JFK I believe and kind of 22L arrivals at EWR (altho there is a weird offset). In summer you also have 31R arrivals as an option from I believe T5 deck.
yeah to be honest I’d rather go to another airport to get good lighting lol. JFK’s 13L has super minimal locations which sucks, and EWR’s 22L locations feel super awkward. I am definitely trying the 31s during the summer though.
If you’re ever up in Toronto in the winter/early spring 23/24 at YYZ are both fantastic (that’s where the AFR is taken from). Other than that I’m not sure what major airports in the northeast offer both the correction runway direction AND enough traffic. You really want 777s, 787s, or 737 MAXs for this type of stuff because they have big engines and visible fanblades.
Atlanta is cool but it’s surprisingly more trouble than expected. The south deck is a better angle for 27 ops, but those departures are really far and heat hazed. There’s not much for interesting other spots either. For 09 you can do north deck arrivals but it’s kind of boring, the only real interesting option is taxi shots to the 9s from south.
