Well as i mentioned yesterday I got to go to the first flight of the 787-9 and instead of talking more about it… just check out the prettyness
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Category: Photography
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National Aviation Day #Avgeek Porn
Since it’s National Aviation Day today, heres some of my favourite photos from the last 12 months, really lets just call a spade a spade… its Avgeek Porn 😀
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| From Qatar Artistic & Spotting |
Qatar Airways 787 at Boeing Field on its delivery night.
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| From ANA Ambassador Spotting & Artistic |
ANA 787 at San Jose Airport
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| From Aviation Nation Spotting |
F-22 Lightning II at Nellis Air Force Base
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
Uzbekistan 767-300ER at Paine Field
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
American Airlines 737 at Paine Field at Sunset
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
British Airways 747-400 Climbing out of LAX at Sunset
Life is boring… so here is some #avgeek porn
O how life has become so boring for me lately. Workout, Work, Eat, Sleep rinse repeat. To be honest though, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have been working hard this week getting more serious about my training and with two days of running (Monday & Thursday), two swims so far this week (Tuesday & Thursday), I have been pushing it hard.
But other than working out, what has been going on in mal’s life? Well to be honest, not much. So here is some photos of planes, this should keep the #avgeek friends of mine happy:
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s first 787
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
Qatar Airways Cargo 777F
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
A Hello Kitty painted Eva Airways A330
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| From ANA Ambassador Spotting & Artistic |
Singapore Airlines New 777-300ER
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
The ANA 787 that took me to Japan last month
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| From ANA Ambassador Spotting & Artistic |
KLM MD-11 sucking in some Vapor at LAX
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| From LAX Spotting June 2013 |
Star Alliance painted 777-300ER from ANA departing LAX
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| From LAX Spotting June 2013 |
A Phillipines 777-300ER departing Vancouver
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| From Memorial Day Spotting |
Transaero 777-300 in New York
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| From Memorial Day Spotting |
Artistic Photos…
Just some Artistic Photos from my recent trip to Portland for this Thursday evening… trying to relax a little tonight
Photos up
The photos from my trip Down Under (well at least some of them, not all of them yet) are finally up!
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| Wedding Time Down Under |
More still to come though when I finish touching them up.
Awesome Weekend for an #avgeek
I went spotting over the weekend or as I described the weekend to my work collegues “hunting for aircraft”. I was out to try and get a few particular aircraft that had been out and about and were pretty rare.
Well I managed to get 3 of the 4 I had been hunting. First up… the Elusive Uzbekistan Airways 767-300ER:
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
They have suprisingly ordered 2 767s and this is the first of them. It has only done a couple of flights and I only caught this one on a rare occurence that I was already at Paine waiting for something else when it lodged a flight plan and got taxi clearance within 10 minutes of each other (all while I was in the bathroom!).
Next up we have the American Airlines 777-300ER:
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
Now I have shots already of the AA 77W but never in full livery as this is the first one that is factory fresh, fully painted in the new livery. Managed to get it several times over the weekend but this is one of my better shots. Saturday’s shots were with a nice lovely blue sky, but just not as good as I had a tail chopped off here, a nose chopped off there but still.. very pretty:
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
The new livery is growing on me as I think that it is much better in person, than seen in pictures.
The third catch is the Saudia Cargo 747-8F:
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
Their first 747-8F and my first glimpse of this bird. It is exceedingly boring compared to Cargolux, NCA or even Air Bridge Cargo who all have much better liveries on their 747-8F (though not as bland as Korean Air Cargo). But still, its a pretty rare site so will take what I can get.
Also managed to get a new airline to my list being Minaldo who look to be a Lion Air offshoot and they haven’t even started flying yet!
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
As I was waiting for this one to head back out after a landing, the fog rolled right in, so much so you could barely see the aircraft:
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
Made for an exciting weekend that’s for sure. Some days, I just love living in Seattle!
LAX Spotting
So I finally managed to get all my LAX spotting photos finished and touched up. Took me almost 2 solid days plus a few days mid week to get them all done. I culled 1500 down to 165 so thats pretty good really, about a 10% hit rate (thank god I do not shoot film!). I was going to try something a little different but it failed to work.
So instead here is a selection of my photos from the trip.. including the most lucky of shots lately!
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
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| From LAX Spotting 2013 |
A Long Weekend of Awesome
Well I just managed to finish a long weekend after having today off. It has been good with my friend Kinny coming to visit for some good Avgeek Times. But I have also tried to be the good host and show him some good touristy things as well.
On Saturday we did 1 or 2 of the usual touristy things, Pikes Place Market, Post Alley, the first Starbucks store
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| From Seattle Life 2013 |
you know the usual, but then we also added in some time spotting at SeaTac and being chased off by the cops, which was the first time that has ever happened to me, even back home in Australia it never happened.
Sunday Morning we headed out into “rural Washington” which was really just 10 mins down the road from me towards the East. We went and had breakfast at one of the top breakfast spots in the Greater Seattle area, Maltby Cafe (funnily enough at the end of Maltby Road). It was DAMN awesome and I took the cinnamon roll challenge (not that there really is a challenge but more that eating one is a challenge on its own). It was gooooooood. Way more cinnamony than the one at Skillet but this one didn’t have as good frosting as what the Skillet one does with its warm cream cheese yumminess.
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| From Seattle Life 2013 |
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| From Seattle Life 2013 |
Kinny got to try his first real American classic being Biscuits & Gravy. Reports were that the biscuit was a bit to heavy. But he still managed to put a good dent in the meal. After that we headed off to Everett for some spotting, then onto Museum of flight and eventually round out the day at Kerry Park for some sunset shots of Downtown Seattle.
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| From Seattle Life 2013 |
More spotting today but this time a little bit different. It was actually snowing! The snow was falling but it was so worth it! To be out spotting in the snow as it fell (and at one time was coming down pretty heavy) was pretty neat! But the photos of the snow were not that easy to get 🙁
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| From Seattle Life 2013 |
All in all, a pretty awesome weekend! (A post later in the week on the spotting goodness)
A couple of rareties at Paine Field
I was chasing down a UPS 767 Freighter this afternoon (it left about an hour after I did) and managed to snap a few rare birds flying about. A Southwest 737-700 at Paine Field & a US Army Blackhawk. Add in the Dreamlifter and it wasn’t a bad hour or so.
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
But once I left the Future of Flight I moved over to another side of the field and got a few parked aircraft shots including a truly epic sunset.
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Artistic 2013 |
First Day of the Year
New Years Eve I was a pansy, I will fully admit that. I piked out of watching the fireworks for spending time in my nice warm bed since it was cold outside. Yes that was a lame decision, but my warm sleepy body overruled spending time in the cold outdoors.
New Years Day though I awoke to what was going to be a fantastic day of sunshine! One thing that is sometimes rare to find is sunshine in winter in the PNW and the first day of 2013 did NOT dissapoint. In fact even though it was freezing cold outside (in the 40s but that did not include wind chill) it was mighty nice to have no rain, no cloud and just brilliant blue sky. I was going to take full advantage of it and get 2 things done.
1. Get up to Kerry Park and take some photos of the Skyline with the Space Needle
2. Spotting at SeaTac since Paine Field is shut down pretty much for the Xmas/NY break.
So that’s what I did, although I did #2 first and #1 on the way home. The weather held, I froze my butt off and the photos turned out pretty damn good if you ask me. The Kerry Park photos got a bonus with Mt Ranier in the background.
While the spotting photos were near perfection as they were landing on 16C and got some of the shots I was hoping for including Emirates, Korean and Lufthansa (though ANA was early… as usual).
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |
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| From Seattle Spotting 2013 |