Mar 14, 2021 | AF-S 70-300mm f4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V3, Piper PA-18 Super Cub, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Super Cub Landing A PA-18 Piper Super Cubs on floats can land in some pretty tight places. With the floats attached the Super Cub can drop out of the sky very quickly at a steep angle.
The Back Story Northern Michigan provides some beautiful backgrounds when capturing floatplane images. This Super Cub on short final reminds one that the call to the wild is not far away. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Mar 13, 2021 | AF-S 70-300mm f4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V1, Piper J-3 Cub, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Cub Taking Off Strong winds made the lake waves higher than normal. The water along the coastline was much calmer. This Cub made the most of it, yet the takeoff run was still pretty long.
The Back Story This Piper Cub is a long way away. The Nikon 1 V1 with the 70-200mm lens at 200mm yields a 540mm reach. With the razor sharp exposure, a little crop in post still make a good image.
Mar 12, 2021 | AF-S 70-300mm f4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V1, Skiplanes & Seaplanes, Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman As the VJ-22 moved along the taxiway, the late afternoon light spilled softly on its fuselage. It attracted several pilot onlookers as it made its way to its hanger.
The Back Story What is it? It’s a 1950’s vintage, experimental, high wing monoplane, Volmer VJ-22 Amphibian flying boat nicknamed “Sportsman.” You just don’t see a plane like the VJ-22 taxiing at your local airport very often. For more information on the VJ-22, see Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman | a 7 Image Story.
Mar 11, 2021 | 1 VR 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6, Daily Image 2021, De Havilland Beaver, Nikon 1 V1, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Seaplane Base Arrival This beautiful de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver on floats makes its grand arrival at the seaplane base during Air Adventure. For a float plane pilot, getting a tow to the dock is the lap of luxury. Pilots land and takeoff outside the seaplane base cove, but still in protected water leading into Lake Winnebago. For more on the seaplane base, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
The Back Story The seaplane base is very low key and a nice place to kick back after an afternoon on the Oshkosh flight line. Sometimes, it help to just hang around and wait for a good image to come floating by.
Mar 7, 2021 | 1 VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V3, Piper J-3 Cub, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Piper Cub Flying in Snow Most pilots like to fly the The Piper J-3 Cub on skis. The skis add a bit of spice to life in the winter. Add a snow shower and we pilots have dreams of being a bush pilot. It brings us back to the basics. You hand prop it. It has a stick, not a yoke.
The Back Story With intermittent snow showers in the afternoon around the airport, it was not difficult to capture a few images. For more information on aviation photography, go to Nikon 1 V3 for Aviation | a 7 Image Story.
Mar 6, 2021 | 1 VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V3, Piper J-3 Cub, Piper PA-18 Super Cub, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Cub & Super Cub Two iconic airplanes flying in nice snow make for memorable images. The Cub and Super Cub are having fun on Skiplane Weekend. This image is one of my favorite aviation images.
The Back Story Of course, the difficulty to capturing good airplane images in the winter with snow, is to keep the shutter speed low enough to blur the prop and pan well enough to keep the wings and fuselage in sharp focus while dealing with bright, hard mid-day light. A 1/125s shutter speed is about as high as I like for a click like this one. Luckily this day had bright overcast in between snow showers. Getting just the right spacing with just the right blowing snow while the camera and I were freezing meant several hundred burst mode images.
Mar 5, 2021 | 1 VR 10-30mm f/3.4-5.6 PD-Zoom, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V3, Piper J-3 Cub, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Think it will Snow Light powder snow settled down on the wings of this Piper J-3 Cub. The snow was relatively dry and really did not stick to the wing. Actually, it would fly away under the force of my breath.
The Back Story This Piper J-3 Cub sat outside in the snow during widely scattered snow showers. After the snow shower passed, starting the engine blew all the snow off.
Mar 4, 2021 | AF-S 70-300mm f4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR, Cessna 185, Daily Image 2021, Nikon 1 V1, Skiplanes & Seaplanes
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | C-185 Snow Taxiing This C-185 snow taxiing stirs up a snow cloud making a nice background for the image.
The Back Story During ski plane weekend, several planes headed over to Lake Sapphire to get a hot drink and do some hanger flying. The Cessna 185 started taxiing before we did.
