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SmAlbany
2010-03-01, 02:45 PM
ALB was running arrivals to the East for much of the morning. Landing rwy 10 is very unusual so I thought that I'd head over during lunch and see what I could see. Weather was questionable. Wouldn't you know, they switched to runway 1 and we got a snow squall. Oh well ... On a positive note (for me anyway) we got a couple of diverts from LGA while I was there.

All shots taken from location C on your ALB spotting map:

Snow banks in the spotting area were tall enough to see over the fence when stood upon. I did get honked at by traffic passing by though.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o215/Sacandaga86/ALB%20February%2026%202010/N811CA_ALB_022610_1.jpg

One of the LGA diversions
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o215/Sacandaga86/ALB%20February%2026%202010/N921AT_ALB_022610_1.jpg

Regular ALB Southwest traffic

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o215/Sacandaga86/ALB%20February%2026%202010/N428WN_ALB_022610.jpg

Another divert from LGA
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o215/Sacandaga86/ALB%20February%2026%202010/N8978E_ALB_022610.jpg

Sharpening does not seem helpful on those snow shots.

I hope that you enjoy them,
Dan
hiss srq
2010-03-01, 02:49 PM
gREAT dOUGLAS JET'S AND GOOGLEY MOOGLEY.
MarkLawrence
2010-03-01, 06:07 PM
WOW!!! Awesome shots Dan!
jerslice
2010-03-01, 09:49 PM
Props for going in the snow - they came out great!
chrisparypa
2010-03-01, 10:23 PM
hahah when I looked first I thought : wow.... lots of noice... iso 100k or something :P then I noticed... its snow LOL
SmAlbany
2010-03-02, 08:17 AM
Thanks for the nice replies! I would not normally have gone out in the snow. It was a bit of a surprise squall. But as long as I was there - what the heck. Gotta love digital.

I tried to keep shutter speeds up to try and freeze the flakes. Still looks mostly like noise anyway. I didn't think that Citrus came out too bad - from a snow effect point of view.

No point in submitting any of these to the usual sites - I just thought some might enjoy them here. I always enjoy everyone else's pictures here.
lijk604
2010-03-02, 08:20 PM
Good stuff Dan, it's nice to see some weather shots for a change.
cowens727
2010-03-02, 11:13 PM
The DC-9 shot is spectacular! Nothing beats getting great results in less-than-perfect conditions....
NLovis
2010-03-03, 12:51 AM
Love the NWA DC-9. Wonder why they diverted.
SmAlbany
2010-03-03, 08:03 AM
Love the NWA DC-9. Wonder why they diverted.

Apparently there was weather in NY that day (last Friday). Besides the LGA diverts that I saw, there were two jetblue red eye diversions first thing in the morning. I think that I remember that you guys were getting snow that morning.