Posted On August 17, 2017

My Portfolio of Aviation Photography

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I am an absolute lover of all things airplanes, airports or flight related. I’m fortunate enough to live in an airport that sees a ton of military traffic, mostly from the United States but also from other parts of the world. There’s routinely very interesting American flights passing through.

Also the proximity of St. John’s International Airport to the edge of the North Atlantic means many of the commercial aircraft diversions for overseas flights tend to stop here.

In my travels I’ve always taken time to look up whenever I’ve been near an airport. Watching a string of American military flights departing an airport in New Hampshire from the Target parking lot was especially fun but alas, I didn’t have a camera on me. Oops!

But some of my favorite photos have come from terminals and on board flights, just because you’re at FL320 doesn’t mean you have to put the camera away. If you enjoy my aviation portfolio you may also enjoy my Travel Photography Portfolio or perhaps even my Street Photography Portfolio, so why not give those a glance as well!

Thanks!

Enjoy.

: Recently I jumped at the chance to photograph a few USMC Osprey up close and personal. They fly in and out of St. John’s quite often, on their way to God knows where to do God knows what to God knows who, and it’s always a treat to see them coming and going.

: And another one of the USMC Osprey in St. John’s

: Right place, right time… or as Louis Pasteur so perfectly put it “chance favors the prepared mind” and so it does. This Canadian Military Aurora was making a random buzz of Signal Hill after departing St. John’s and I just happened to be there with a long enough lens attached to snap off a few frames with Cape Spear in the background.

: There’s nothing I enjoy more than visiting the airport. As a fan of people watching and a fan of anything airplane related, it piques many of my interests. My favorite part is plane spotting. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you just get a nice view of regular ole’ Air Canada jets doing their thing.

: It’s always neat to catch a huge plane, especially military eithe rlanding or departing St. John’s International Airport. I don’t quite have the time these days to hang around the runways like I used to, but whenever I know something special is in town I have my telephoto lens at the ready.

: I had a 6 hour layover in Heathrow this one trip to Manchester and just couldn’t resist the “street photography” in the airport. Probably just as enjoyable a place to people watch as anywhere on this planet.

: Hopping the short 45mins flight from Liverpool to Ireland aboard a Ryanair flight was interesting. Firstly, you board the plane however you like. There’s no assigned seating, you sit where you want/can. Secondly, there’s advertising all over the interior of the plane. In fact, the only place there wasn’t advertising was on this winglet, which if you count the Ryanair logo, is also kind of false, because it too is advertising. Thanks Obama.

: RyanAir, where babies are literally crawling all over the place because there are zero safety standards on board. This was aboard a RyanAir flight to Ireland back in 06-ish?

: Always loved Heathrow, it gets a lot of flack for one reason or another over the years but for any airplane nerd it’s the Mecca of Planespotters.

: Any summer that the Snowbirds appear for a demonstration in Newfoundland is a good summer. As a bit of plane nerd it’s awesome just to watch but even more fun to photograph. This year the Snowbirds appeared on the Avalon Peninsula, in Conception Bay South to be precise. Being in such a place meant there was bound to be a great view to be had. I sacrificed some of the tighter action shots for something a little more artistic, and I think it was worth it!

: And another one of the snowbirds in action over CBS.

: USMC Osprey over St. John’s

: On April 26th 2013 Torbay’s Volunteer Fire Department responded to a brush fire at the end of Deer Marsh Road. With the winds being quite gusty and a residential area downwind of the fire, they quickly called in the water bomber to douse the area completely and prevent a major catastrophe.