Latest Flight Artworks images have a D-Day theme
My most recent D-Day related image experiments with depicting the visible shockwave from a bomb dropped by a Hawker Typhoon in Normandy in 1944.
Topsy turvy new Flight Artworks picture published
It is always a bit of a strange feeling when pictures that you finished some months previously under embargo are finally published.
Is it a bird, is it a drone … ?
If you are thinking a drone would have made easy work of this job, there are two problems with that.
Westland Lysander on clandestine operation
On a moonlit night in July 1944, an RAF Westland Lysander comes in low over a field of lavender to land on a makeshift grass airstrip…
Desert camouflage Spitfire EN152
My latest picture features a dusty, desert-coloured Spitfire IXc – and a yellow herring.
Polish ‘boxing bulldog’ Spitfire TD240
The new paint scheme for the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire TE311 features a Polish boxing bulldog nose art: one of several similar emblems.
The view from the back seat
I am told I am deluding myself when I imagine there was a golden age during which I just made pictures and somehow all the household stuff and admin either did not exist or somehow took care of itself.
Dambusters Lancasters practising … in Essex?
We all know that famous Dambusters scene, right? 617 Squadron practising … on a lake in flat countryside in Essex.
A Mk I Spitfire and a PR Mk XIX silver Spitfire: my latest Flight Artworks
Colchester, 15 September 2015 The house and office move mentioned in the Preface to my first book was completed relatively painlessly as these things go, although the unpacking and decluttering took longer than I had…
A close-up look at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
High Wycombe, 2 Dec 2014 I was standing next to a World War Two Spitfire while one of the few modern pilots lucky enough to have flown it recounted how the engine had emptied of oil…
Spitfires escorting Lancasters? In daylight?
High Wycombe, 6 Nov 2014 Ever jump to conclusions? What do you make of the picture above: Spitfires escorting Lancasters? (available via this link). A typical first response from people who see it is “Cool picture…
Thanks for the memories
High Wycombe, 24 Apr 2014 When I am making pictures I need to know what various details of an aircraft look like in order to portray it correctly, and for that nothing beats being able to…
A DFC and a shoal of Hurricanes
High Wycombe, 31 Jan 2014 These pictures began life at an airshow. I did not set out with the idea of making a ‘Phoney War’ picture, let alone two – in fact I knew little about…
D-Day pictures set for print publication
High Wycombe, 6 Jan 2014 A Happy New Year. I wonder what 2014 will bring? Well, for one thing, the 70th anniversary on 6 June of D-Day. I have been concentrating in recent months on…
Head in the clouds
Ah, the magic of flight High Wycombe, 27 Sep 2013 Most – though not all (as we shall see) – are taken from on board aircraft. Yes fellow passengers, I am that sad soul who craves…
Focus on specifics
High Wycombe, 11 Jan 2013 I have been remiss in updating the blog but that is partly because I’ve spent time getting a Flight Artworks page on Facebook off the ground. It has accrued some 200…
Aerial views
High Wycombe, 27 Sep 2012 Alongside my regular photography, taking in trips to the North East, the sailing Olympics in Weymouth and the Edinburgh Fringe, I’ve recently been putting a lot of effort into my…
What do spinning props look like?
High Wycombe, 18 February 2012 What does a spinning aircraft propeller look like? You’re thinking I’m daft. Anyone who’s ever seen even an office fan knows what a spinning prop looks like. Right. It’s just…