Great capture! :)

Wonderful work, I was with a friend this weekend that was sharing some old photo albums, his dad was a fighter pilot in the war and quite a few photos of planes he had flown were in the album, and I thought of you of course.. Trying to catch up here after being away, I hope your New Years was a nice one.

A lot of lighting detail here, and subdued colours. As good as the first! Clive

You have a keen eye for a great angle. Nice shot!

Happy new year to you, Bill! Great POV and lighting for this C-47.

great pov!!

I'll have to go back and look at the black and white version of this as well to make a comparison, but I'm really impressed with this one. I've never gotten the chance to photograph anything like an aircraft--my goal is to actually get to the rocket-launch facilities as Baikonur and get some good Russian aeronautic shots (Russian rockets are weird they're so bottom heavy.) I love the mood of this piece. It's a bit cold (in terms of color) which lends to the sense of crisp austerity. Though there are airplanes in this shot, at least two, I get a profound sense of emptiness...not a bad sort of empty, but a kind of vast openness: the hangar itself I suspect. At any rate, this image intrigues me because it's so incredibly graceful. So wonderfully rich in evocative tones. The darkness is not pervasive but it's overt. The light is a wonderful contrast and everything seems to possess that industrial grayness, except for the reddish orange cone. That is a wonderful anchor in more ways that one. Fantastic work, and the windows are wonderfully picked out. This was well seen, it's well captured, and I love the simple, unpretentious presentation. Great stuff!

The windows make quite an impressive impact in this photo and the colour of the traffic cone.

wonderful comparison! I wasn't around for the earlier version, but I just sat with it now & it was amazing: Because in that deep & moody b&w, you titled it for that blast of light on the tail wing. It really is a highlight, yet it's just one piece of the deep dark cavern you captured, and the big sleeping bird that fills that cavern. Great titling, proving that sometimes the title is part of the work of art. Then here, you've given us the original color, and suddenly it's a whole new shot! Bill, you should probably have a good sense of why I do "panels" (or several versions of one image, going down the screen): Because each panel is a variation, a growth out of/transformation of or different way of seeing the image before. That's the whole reason I do them: I'm struck at how an image changes & grows. By posting & reworking your second & third versions--even months later--you're doing the same thing: Exploring the many ways an image can speak, even going deeper into it each time. The light on this is subtle & fine; as is the quality of the detail--ie, present but subtle, esp in this bluish light. And the windows now dominate in all their glorious messiness--they're wonderfully soiled--and in all their sameness across the wall, and in their bright white & yellows against all that blue. What a fine difference! I love this kind of double posting, I think it's the essence of the discovery we're all on. And the reds here, though for a purpose, make a fine visual foil to all the blues. A fav for both, and for the juxtaposition of the two.

"Open the pod bay door Hal!" Perspective, perspective.

fascinating, Bill, and the colors are great too