SXM 03/24/2011 - Part 1 - Image Heavy
Well, I am faced with sorting through over 5,000 images. I shot all day each day I was there. About a 1,000 frames per day on average. That was just planes. At night more pics with the family.
Princess Juliana is a BUSY airport. It really is amazing how smooth the ops are given they have only one taxiway and it does not run the full length of the only RWY! Yes, not as much commercial jets as commuter and bizjets, but nevertheless, never a dull moment.
Since I have not had much time to properly edit, and I did want to share the experience with my friends here, I decided to just randomly pick frames and post as shot, only cropping and watermark.
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Got to JFK with plenty of time for parking and airtrain travel, check-in, security, etc. It was a rainy dull Monday morning of the 21st and I was bummed I would not get decent shots from the ground or on takeoff.
We pulled back on time, were given RWY 22R, crossed 31R right in front of T5 and took off immediately. Low cloud cover and within 100 feet, poof, in the clouds. I sat on the left side in order to have a better shooting position as shooting left handed is a PITA :tongue:
Absolutely smooth ride and great weather all the way down. Landed as usual over Maho on RWY 10 very early. We had to sit on the Taxiway waiting for an US Air to vacate our gate. All the better as I got to shoot some stuff landing right next to us. Backlit, but, heck, I was excited.
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OK enough text, to the pics. I will keep each post to 10 images or less to make the page load times better. Enjoy!
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...08_KoEdb-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...38_FoaSa-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...1_ioNSo-XL.jpg
some come in very low ;-)
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...49_mnZxK-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...14_ySV8z-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...78_WNQui-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...27_cx9mf-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...16_QLAH2-L.jpg
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...23_EyoJ8-L.jpg
This guy came in REALLY LOW and REALLY FAST!! I clipped the tail accidentally as I did not pull back on the zoom fast enough as he crossed... WOW! What an approach...
http://pictures.mannyphoto.com/Airpl...62_zYgGE-L.jpg
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