lijk604
2006-07-06, 09:31 PM
The July 4th holiday weekend brought me up to the sister-in-law's place just outside of Albany, NY. The Albany airport was a 20 minute ride from their place. So after arriving on July 1st, the wife & her sister started off on craft projects while the brother-in-law was waiting for the Space Shuttle to blast off (which we know didn't happen that day), so I grabbed the scanner & camera and headed off to ALB Intl Airport.
I had "scouted" where the best places to shoot from a local up there, Dan Evans. He has many pictures on A.net & JP from ALB, so I knew this was the guy to hit up for info. He kindly sent me a Google map along with a write-up of best times to go to which spot. Briefly, ALB has -6- decent spots to shoot from, all of which are either a dead-end or a designated observation area! I did get to meet with Dan on Monday the 3rd in the morning and extended to repay the favor when he finally comes downstate to shoot at JFK.
Many times while taking pics over the three days, airport personnel drove past me, and most of them gave a courtesy wave. There were -NO- incidents with the local authorities, in fact, one Sheriff did drive by me once, but he too, just waived and left me to my business while he went along on his. Very refreshing change!
Traffic for the airport is for the most part regional jets (CRJ1, CRJ2, CRJ4, CRJ7, even CRJ9's! & E170's). NWA brings in a DC9 and A319 or A320 depending on the day. SWA is in there a few times a day with B737-300's & 737-700's. Picture a busier ISP with no cops to bother you. LOL! The weather was a crap-shoot, the 1st was partly sunny, 2nd was overcast most of the day, but the 3rd was f-ing gorgeous (figures, that was the slowest day of the 3 I was there).
Here are some highlights from the trip, I still have more photos to edit, but I wanted to get these posted.
Air Alliance B-1900 (my first shot of the trip!)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/C-GZGA-PB.jpg
A pair of touchdown shots:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N804CA-PB.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N331UA-PB.jpg
NWA A320 on takeoff roll:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N347NW-PB.jpg
G4SP BizJet on Overcast Sunday:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N702GH-pb.jpg
SWA Takeoff:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N616SWb-PB.jpg
GoJet Airlines CRJ7 blastoff:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N155GJ-PB.jpg
SWA Landing:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N616SW-PB.jpg
US Express (Republic Airlines) taxi-shot:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N819MD-PB.jpg
NWA Express CRJ4 departing the terminal:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N8696C-PB.jpg
...and my 3 Jet Photo acceptances so far...
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764525
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764529
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5763291
I had "scouted" where the best places to shoot from a local up there, Dan Evans. He has many pictures on A.net & JP from ALB, so I knew this was the guy to hit up for info. He kindly sent me a Google map along with a write-up of best times to go to which spot. Briefly, ALB has -6- decent spots to shoot from, all of which are either a dead-end or a designated observation area! I did get to meet with Dan on Monday the 3rd in the morning and extended to repay the favor when he finally comes downstate to shoot at JFK.
Many times while taking pics over the three days, airport personnel drove past me, and most of them gave a courtesy wave. There were -NO- incidents with the local authorities, in fact, one Sheriff did drive by me once, but he too, just waived and left me to my business while he went along on his. Very refreshing change!
Traffic for the airport is for the most part regional jets (CRJ1, CRJ2, CRJ4, CRJ7, even CRJ9's! & E170's). NWA brings in a DC9 and A319 or A320 depending on the day. SWA is in there a few times a day with B737-300's & 737-700's. Picture a busier ISP with no cops to bother you. LOL! The weather was a crap-shoot, the 1st was partly sunny, 2nd was overcast most of the day, but the 3rd was f-ing gorgeous (figures, that was the slowest day of the 3 I was there).
Here are some highlights from the trip, I still have more photos to edit, but I wanted to get these posted.
Air Alliance B-1900 (my first shot of the trip!)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/C-GZGA-PB.jpg
A pair of touchdown shots:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N804CA-PB.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N331UA-PB.jpg
NWA A320 on takeoff roll:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N347NW-PB.jpg
G4SP BizJet on Overcast Sunday:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N702GH-pb.jpg
SWA Takeoff:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N616SWb-PB.jpg
GoJet Airlines CRJ7 blastoff:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N155GJ-PB.jpg
SWA Landing:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N616SW-PB.jpg
US Express (Republic Airlines) taxi-shot:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N819MD-PB.jpg
NWA Express CRJ4 departing the terminal:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b233/lijk604/N8696C-PB.jpg
...and my 3 Jet Photo acceptances so far...
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764525
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764529
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5763291