Nothing Could Keep Me From This - a photo on Flickriver

I've been waiting for about 5 years to come here and the reason I haven't is because it's 350 miles away from where I live, so last month we decided to book 2 nights near it and finally do it. This was it, this was the big one, the one i've been dreaming of, and nothing was getting in my way, I wasn't leaving without what I came for, I would travel to the ends of the earth for this.

The first night was a failure of walking through fields in the dark, in the wet, and with none waterproof boots on.

The second night we found it easily. Came in the day time to find where all the planes were, the second night fell we started star trailing.

Within 15 minutes of shooting, this huge millitery helicopter flies overhead and I made a joke of "I'd laugh if that was here for us" then it landed very close to us. Luckily we had pro walkie talkies and kept in contact through them whilst we hid from the helicopter. It was grounded for about 20 minutes then took off again, and started circling the airfield, we are all getting a bit edgey right now and started hiding under planes and wings, sitting in engine thrusters and such to hide from it, a lot was said about weather it would have thermal imaging or a seach light, weather it was here for us or just doing a training exercise and the full moon didn't help, we were sitting ducks! So we had to lie really low as none of us wanted to go to prison. It carried on flying around, then landed again, took off again and landed a few more times ater circling the airfield a few more times. Then flew sideways right over where we were hid. Then flew back to base and luckily never came back. So we could continue shooting.

Then after another few half hour star trails we were quite relaxed that the helicopter wasn't coming back. Then a car drives down the run way and we all scramble around trying to climb under an upturned Wessex to hide, then everyone ran, again not to get caught. Then went back to the car and moved on. Didn't get all the shots I wanted so I do want to go back.

Hawker Siddeley Dominie - An old RAF survelance aircraft.

Enjoy!

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Taken on: October 16, 2011

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