Exp: 1/25s, f/8.0, ISO 200
Gear: Canon 40D, 17-55F2.8 @ 21mm

There are only a few things that can top a chance to spend a morning with a great sky photographing airplanes.  Clad in my bright yellow ramp vest to avoid getting run over by fuel trucks I got up close and personal with this F-15.  I photographed it with a wide angle lens to take in as much of the sky as possible and I got low and up close to the plane so that it was large in the frame and so the wings didn’t hide the peaks in the distance.  Even at 1/25th of a second I got a nice sharp image because of the image stabilized lens.

Exp: 1/200, f/10, ISO 200
Gear: Canon 40D, 70-200F4L IS @ 200mm

Over the last couple days I was able to go out to the National Championship Air Races in Reno, NV.  It was a great experience.  If you’re an aviation buff like I am and you haven’t been out to Reno make sure you get it on your list of things to do next year.  The aircraft on display and that race are like nothing you’ve probably seen before.  Between the corsair, bearcats and clip wing mustangs there’s something for everyone.  Since this was my first trip to Reno I was welcomed by the seasoned photographers many more than happy to share tips for the best places to stand.  I’m definitely never going to forget standing out on the pylon having 7 AT-6′s racing straight at me … yeah I got the picture.

Check the blog next week I should have a link to an album of the shots I took, right now I have about 3000 more images to go through.