Mellyrose
2006-04-11, 04:18 PM
Last night I decided that I was going to go out today for the scheduled 11am PSA arrival...if they were using 22 for arrivals. I really wanted to get a skyline shot of her. Sure enough they were still using 22, so I headed out around 10:30 to shoot. Blech....where was Manhattan? It was blue skies above, but the entire city was hidden by fog. Also, the clouds on the horizon were doing funny things to the exposure...bad lighting overall. I was pretty disappointed, but i figured I'd get some side-ons anyway. Well, 11am came and went. No sign of PSA. I stayed about until after noon, and then decided to just call it a day...I had already gotten lucky and caught this:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/Ted_A320_N469UA_LGA22Arr_041106.jpg
This is what I thought would be my last shot of the day:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/NW_DC9_N8938E_LGA22Arr_041106.jpg
Then, not 20 minutes after I got upstairs and started loading my shots, Phil called me and told me to run back down to the park with the camera....he works in Westchester and had just seen 2 F-14s inbound to LGA.
I RAN
Nothing even resembling an F-14 was anywhere in sight. When I spoke to Phil, he said "If you see a Jetblue, you missed them....because I just saw that overhead"....sure enough, JUST as I hung up the phone, this came around the corner:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/JB_A320_N568JB_LGA22Arr_041106.jpg
Soooo. I went BACK home since we both figured I had either missed them or they weren't going to LGA.
THEN
My phone rings again. Phil had figured out that the F-14s were preparing for a fly by over Yankees Stadium for opening day...and that the game hadn't even started. He told me there was a 50/50 chance that if I went back out, they'd be landing. I figured after all of my efforts, why give up at this point, right?
I arrived back down to the park just in time for....!!!!
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/PSA_A319_N742PS_LGA22Arr_041106_Skyline.jpg
A very unexpected late PSA...immediately followed by the 2 Tomcats...which you can see in their own thread. So, even though none of these shots are super quality (and all edited on my laptop), I still had fun doing it! :mrgreen:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/Ted_A320_N469UA_LGA22Arr_041106.jpg
This is what I thought would be my last shot of the day:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/NW_DC9_N8938E_LGA22Arr_041106.jpg
Then, not 20 minutes after I got upstairs and started loading my shots, Phil called me and told me to run back down to the park with the camera....he works in Westchester and had just seen 2 F-14s inbound to LGA.
I RAN
Nothing even resembling an F-14 was anywhere in sight. When I spoke to Phil, he said "If you see a Jetblue, you missed them....because I just saw that overhead"....sure enough, JUST as I hung up the phone, this came around the corner:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/JB_A320_N568JB_LGA22Arr_041106.jpg
Soooo. I went BACK home since we both figured I had either missed them or they weren't going to LGA.
THEN
My phone rings again. Phil had figured out that the F-14s were preparing for a fly by over Yankees Stadium for opening day...and that the game hadn't even started. He told me there was a 50/50 chance that if I went back out, they'd be landing. I figured after all of my efforts, why give up at this point, right?
I arrived back down to the park just in time for....!!!!
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/PSA_A319_N742PS_LGA22Arr_041106_Skyline.jpg
A very unexpected late PSA...immediately followed by the 2 Tomcats...which you can see in their own thread. So, even though none of these shots are super quality (and all edited on my laptop), I still had fun doing it! :mrgreen: