Today my Daughter and I, along with my in laws went along to RAAF Darwin to an Open Day. As always these places are hot and lots of walking is required. They just don't build things close together on Air Force Bases. I was also about one of 50 kazillion people with a camera and wasn't hopeful of getting any inspirational Air Force type photographs.
The Open Day is part of Exercise Pitch Black 2008 taking place over the skies of the Northern Territory - Australia. It involves aircraft from plenty of nearby nations and the United States.
The FA-18 pictured in these three pictures performed an Aerial Display which was one of the best I have seen. Instead of just your standard fly over it flew low level, upside down, vertically and was very impressive.
These shots were taken with my D70 and 18-200 Beach Camera because I don't like carrying all the gear at places like this when a fairly basic kit gets the job done. Not sure my pocketwizards and off camera flash would have been very useful with these shots, especially the last one.
The Open Day is part of Exercise Pitch Black 2008 taking place over the skies of the Northern Territory - Australia. It involves aircraft from plenty of nearby nations and the United States.
The FA-18 pictured in these three pictures performed an Aerial Display which was one of the best I have seen. Instead of just your standard fly over it flew low level, upside down, vertically and was very impressive.
These shots were taken with my D70 and 18-200 Beach Camera because I don't like carrying all the gear at places like this when a fairly basic kit gets the job done. Not sure my pocketwizards and off camera flash would have been very useful with these shots, especially the last one.
