Big and Shiny by bmac62
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There is a first rate museum close to where we live by the name of the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum. It is owned by Mr Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft along with Bill Gates. Every time we walk through the museum, there are new/old things there. This is a Goodyear FG-1D Corsair and was one of the most outstanding fighter bombers of WWII.
This plane is being readied for an up-coming airshow. Everything in this museum is 100% operational.
Very zoom worthy.
Comments (17)
awjay
excellent image
DukeNukem2005
It is excellent!
kgb224
Superb capture Bill. God bless.
kenmo
Brilliantly captured....
blinkings
NO IPADS ALLOWED in that hanger!
TomDart
Those peculiar dropped wings to accommodate the large prop(?), so I am told, make it quite distinctive. I saw some mustangs at an air show in Knoxville last year and one flying Corsair. I like the sound of engine and prop on that special warbird. Great perspective and choice of monochrome in your photo.
photosynthesis
Yes, incredibly shiny. The light bouncing off what looks like a jet black plane creates a very dramatic glossy effect...
Faemike55
Fabulous capture of this sweet machine
RodS
What a beauty! An excellent shot of this gorgeous Corsair, Bill!
jayfar
A wonderful shot Bill and I bet you spent many hours looking around !!!
FredNunes
Wow... you really captured this well Bill. Perfect angle.
wysiwig
Great P.O.V. Those wings were a dead giveaway. Over 72 years old and still ready to fly. I hope I can say the same thing when I get there.
auntietk
One of my favorite planes! I never thought I'd have a favorite plane. Do you think one day I might have a favorite battlefield?
... Nah ...
LOL!
jendellas
Now that is shiny, super capture.
moochagoo
Very good shot of this old plane.
Richardphotos
if you make it down to Texas again try the aircraft museum at Addison Airport. mostly operational. is this a dark Blue?
anahata.c
Bill, I'm only doing a couple of images tonight---just a brief visit---so I won't hardly do justice to your wonderful offerings, though I've seen them all. So I'll have to save the larger session for some day in the near future. For now, I picked this, among the many, for its stunning light and sheen and sweep. In fill view, you caught the sweep of the metal and its reflected light, you caught the massing of the pilot's section and the front propeller---how it all "bunches up" there, visually, and how the plane sweeps out from there like big sweeps of light. The blacks are deep and rich; and the light from the windows is strong balance to all that black. You did a splendid job with black and white, getting shimmering highlights and deep darks. And your composition---with the biggest conglomeration of mass in the right half of the shot, and much more openness on the left---is wonderful. A really fine capture of a real beauty. I can see why this place calls you so...