Up close and personal POV with the Douglas B-18 "Bolo" - the bomber derivative of the DC-3. I have a pic of this USAF musuem prize in my gallery.

wonderful!!

Wonderful! It's like a piston powered insect, if you ask me, but I have this insect thing going, and so of course I'll see bugs. I think it's that stinging-insect coloration that does it for me here. Yellow and black will always mean, "Danger, I have a pointy thing that I'll stab you with if you mess with me." And it's no wonder that "Danger" and "Alert" are expressed with the same colors. Now, on to the shot. WOW! What light! What shadow! What hypnotic beauty. I was tempted to make up an word and say "What gorgeousostiy" but I refrained...sort of...well...not quite. I love the brute strength of this, the shape of the engine housing, the propeller blades and that wonderful little end cap that always looks like it should contain advanced telemetry-gathering equipment, despite the fact that it's a part of the mechanism that holds the propeller on. At any rate, wow! This is a gorgeous shot, quite stunning, and I love the subtle filter work that keeps the original subject intact but renders it just a little bit less objective. Great work.

I guess for something you just pulled out, dusted off and applied a few filters to... It's not to shabby! ;D Great work!

I started a comment on this 4 times last night, but my browser had other ideas. So here goes once more: Your postwork divides the surfaces just enough to show us the colors broken into their component hues & areas of light & dark; but it's subtle enough to not change the essential picture. And as you do again & again, you've silhouetted the thing so that it seems like a single entity lighting in the dark. Only after studying do we see it's attached to a plane that we're seeing from underneath. (Now, as a pilot, you might pick that up immediately. But people like me don't, because of our limited experience with planes.) Most of all, it has your inimitable silhouetted glow, the way you isolate things in these shots and let them glow in the dark as if they were the center of everything. Your solo highlighting is very fine Bill, and it just keeps getting better. (If you're interested--in case you didn't know--"silhouette" was named for Étienne de Silhouette, a French politician of the 18th C. He did cutouts of people, which then became synonymous with quick portraits of someone, without a lot of detail. But in time, they became synonymous with abstracting an essence, a pure 'presence', usually against a white or very dark background. That is what you have here. Do you know the work of Edward Weston? If not, he did shots of single objects in a silhouetted manner, but oh the varieties of light & dark he caught. Here are 3 links at random, thought you might find them inspiring since you are called to this art so beautifully: Here, here, and here. And all in b&w! There must be something about soloing an image that calls one to the simplest tonal language. Your colors in these images are simple as well, moving towards very basic tonality over many colors. There are others Westons if you google Edward Weston, under "Images"...)

This looks as if it would still love to fly again it is full of energy. Lovely capture.

work of the insider. it shows you know quite well why they fly. excellent, Bill

Awesome shot, postwork and details.

lol Bill, so everybody has his own preferences...smile...and this one looks very nice

Great graphical effect!