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Aviation Photography Competition

Would you like to see your photograph on the Homepage for a month?

and it will be judged along with other entries to decide the winner who will have their photograph displayed on the Homepage for one month. There will be a new theme each month and your photograph must be relevant to this. Remember only one picture per person and it must be a photograph that is owned by you.(see Rules below).

Next months theme is 'Classic military jets'. Lets see some photos of classic military jets (ie military jets no longer in service in large numbers) such as the Meteor, Vampire, Venom, Hunter, Sabre, Lightning etc etc...

Click here if anyone has any suggestions for future themes.

Please send in your entries by July 23rd and the winning photograph will be on the Homepage on August 1st 2010 for a month.



'Formations'

The winning photograph for July 2010

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USAF Thunderbirds at RIAT 2007     Martyn Cartwright

USAF Thunderbirds at RIAT 2007 with a Canon eos400d and a 90-300mm lens.

Martyn Cartwright




Thanks to everyone that took part in the Photo-Competition.

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Swiss national team 'Patrouille Suisse' flying their F-5E Tiger II aircraft and was taken at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford in 2006.

Barry Thomas
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"Patrouille Suisse", Shadow formation taken at RNAS Yeovilton Air day in 2007. How close can you get!!

Andrew Ratcliffe
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Virgin Atlantic 747 and the Red Arrows at Biggin Hill Air Fair 2009. Nikon D300 with Sigma 50-500mm lens.

Adrian Glazzard
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Red Arrows and F-117A Stealth Fighter at Fairford, not sure of the year.

Michael Screech
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Welcome back The Reds! First display of 2010 Season at RAF Cosford. Well done Guys ( and Gal !) for getting approval in such quick time. Was not surprised you made it. The best of British! Date: 13/6/10. Nikon D300 with Sigma 100-300mm F4 EX APO.

Rob Neild
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Dutch F-16,  P-51 Mustang, and two seater Spitfire in Dutch colours, taken at Airbourne 2009 at Eastbourne with my now very trusted Canon 40d and my only lens I use a Sigma 150-500mm hsm os lens.

David Hackney
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Mitchells and Warhawk taken at Duxford Flying Legends 2009 using my Nikon D80 plus Nikon 100-300mm zoom lens.

Alan Melton
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Stearman A75 Utterly Butterly Team taken at RIAT 2006. Nikon D70 with Nikon 70-300 Lens. 1,250s @ f/5.6 Iso 250. This time there was no photoshop work involved.

Graham Coates
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Hunter and a Gnat taken at Old Warden last year with a Canon eos350d and Canon 300mm lens.

Harvey Copeland
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Belgium AF F16/SF260 taken at Tiger Meet 09, Kleine Brogel, with my Canon EOS350d, Vivitar 28-300lens.

Peter Busby
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in formation.Taken at RAF Coningsby.

Michael Rushforth 
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Taken at La Ferte Alais 2010 with his relatively untried Canon 50D + 100-400 Zoom.

Steve Screech  
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Typhoons taken at Fairford 2008 on the Friday flypast for the Queen presenting the new colours to the R.A.F.

Jason McWilliam
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A pair of Display Gnats at the East Fortune Airshow 2009 taken with Canon 50D and 100-400 IMG Lens.

Alyson M Elwood (Miss) 
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2x Tucanos departing RIAT 09, taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7.

Loic Boullenger  
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Hawker Hunter T7 and F86A Sabre jet arriving at this years Air Show at Cosford. The camera used was a Nikon D50 and Sigma 135/400 mm Lens.

Neil Halford
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Red Arrows taken at RIAT 2009 with Canon 400D and 70-300mm lens.

KAN
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Me-109 pair.

Brian McKay 
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Red Arrows at Portrush Air Show in 2008 using my Fujifilm S5800 digital camera.

Karl Moore
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Red Arrows from “Wings & Wheels” held at Dunsfold.

Larry Rowe




Click here if you would like to discuss photos in this competition, whether you want a particular theme or disagree with the choice of winning photo or anything else.

Photo-Competition Rules
1/ You can enter just one photograph per month.
2/ Please send your photograph in .jpg format.
3/ The photograph must be all your own work, you must have copyright .
4/ Please make the size of your photograph about 784X422 pixels.
5/ I will reduce the size of the winning photo to 392X211 pixels to fit on the Homepage.
6/ Photos will be judged on quality, rarity, relevance to the theme, and fits/looks good on the Homepage.
7/ The Photo-competition will have a new theme each month .
8/ Sorry, NO prizes but you will have your picture on the Homepage for one month.
9/ Please send some info about the picture such as what it is, where it was taken, and camera/lens used and your name.
10/ No excessive photo-shopping (although sizing, cropping, contrast, levels, sharpening etc are fine).

Tips on sending a winning photo
1/ Your photo must be relevant to the theme.
2/ Make sure your photo will fit on the Homepage and can be resized to 392 X 211 pixels.
3/ The larger the filesize the better the image quality. Filesizes up to 1MB+ are accepted.
4/ Check that the exposure is correct with no blown highlights or underexposed aircraft.
5/ Make sure runways and buildings are fairly straight.
6/ Flying aircraft are generally preferred over static aircraft as they are harder to capture.
7/ Bribes are accepted.........Just kidding!!!!!!



Previous Monthly Photo-Competitions

July 2001
(Military Helicopters)
August 2001
(Naval Aircraft)
September 2001
(Jet Fighter Aircraft)
October 2001
(Transport Aircraft)
November 2001
(Second World war Fighters)
December 2001
(First World war Aircraft)
January 2002
(International Display Teams)
February 2002
(Piston-engined Bomber Aircraft)
March 2002
(Trainer Aircraft)
April 2002
(April fools)
May 2002
(MiG or Sukhoi aircraft )
June 2002
(Reconnaissance Aircraft)
July 2002
(Vertical Lift)
August 2002
(P-38 & P-51)
September 2002
(F-4 Phantom)
October 2002
(A-10/Su-25)
November 2002
(Stealth)
December 2002
(F-111 & MiG-23/27)
January 2003
(Hawker Hurricane)
February 2003
(B-1B / B-52)
March 2003
(Meteor / Me262)
April 2003
(April fools)
May 2003
(Museum Aircraft)
June 2003
(Maritime Patrol)
July 2003
(F-15 / F-16)
August 2003
(F-14 / F-18)
September 2003
(Typhoon / Rafale)
October 2003
(Draken / Viggen / Gripen)
November 2003
(V-Bombers)
December 2003
(C-130 Hercules)
January 2004
(Action-Shots)
February 2004
(Canberra/Hunter)
March 2004
(BAe Hawk)
April 2004
(April fools)
May 2004
(Landing Shot)
June 2004
(Creative Aviation)
July 2004
(Need For Speed)
August 2004
(Colour Scheme)
September 2004
(Unusual Formations)
October 2004
(Bad Weather)
November 2004
(Chinook)
December 2004
(Best 2004 Aviation photo)
January 2005
(Spitfire)
February 2005
(Mikoyan-Gurevich)
March 2005
(Aerobatic Aircraft)
April 2005
(Flying boats and Seaplanes)
May 2005
(Parachute Display Teams)
June 2005
(Sepecat Jaguar)
July 2005
(Sea Harrier)
August 2005
(Tankers)
September 2005
(Attack Helicopters)
October 2005
(Aircraft in Action)
November 2005
(Planes and their Aircrew)
December 2005
(Best 2005 photo)
January 2006
(Early Aircraft)
February 2006
(Tornado F3)
March 2006
(Ray Hanna & Dizzy Addicott Tribute )
April 2006
(Mighty Vulcan)
May 2006
(Spitfire)
June 2006
(Helicopters)
July 2006
(Civilian Display Teams)
August 2006
(Eurofighter Typhoon)
September 2006
(Canberra)
October 2006
(BBMF)
November 2006
(The Blades)
December 2006
(Best 2006 photo)
January 2007
(P-51 Mustang)
February 2007
(Aircraft Formations)
March 2007
(Civilian Airliners)
April 2007
(Modern Trainer Aircraft)
May 2007
(Close Encounters)
June 2007
(Gliders/Glider aerobatics)
July 2007
(F-18 Hornet)
August 2007
(Team Guinot/Wing Walking)
September 2007
(Thunderbirds)
October 2007
(60th Anniversary of USAF)
November 2007
(Pyrotechnics and Flares)
December 2007
(Best 2007 Photo)
January 2008
(German Aircraft)
February 2008
(F-117A Stealth Fighter)
March 2008
(Curtiss P-40 Warhawk)
April 2008
(90th Anniversary of the RAF)
May 2008
(Duxford)
June 2008
(Folland Gnat T.1)
July 2008
(Hawker Hunter)
August 2008
(AH-64 Apache)
September 2008
(Bad Weather)
October 2008
(Vulcan XH558)
November 2008
(Spitfire)
December 2008
(Best 2008 Photo)
January 2009
(Airshow Photography Bloopers)
February 2009
(Artistic Aviation Photo)
March 2009
(Fat Albert)
April 2009
(NATO aircraft)
May 2009
(Fly Navy 100)
June 2009
(German Aircraft)
July 2009
(French Aircraft)
August 2009
(F-86 Sabre)
September 2009
(Rafale/Typhoon/Gripen)
October 2009
(Helicopters)
November 2009
(Lancaster/B-17)
December 2009
(Best 2009 Photo)
January 2010
(Best Airshow Photo)
February 2010
(Battle of Britain)
March 2010
(MiGs)
April 2010
(Biplanes)
May 2010
(Afterburners)
June 2010
(Nimrod)

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