Not my thing . . . - a photo on Flickriver

Not my thing . . .

. . . but it was there, and just had to be done however badly! Taken yesterday at the Gloucestershire Steam Extravaganza. My 70-300mm lens was at its maximum and even then I've had to crop out three quarters of the picture to get this result. Although I was on the farthest end of the showfield which was the nearest position to the display, it was still too far away for my 300mm lens - but it had to be done, didn't it?

This is a quote from the GSE website:

"This weekend The Gloucestershire Steam and Vintage Extravaganza will stun their visitors with a sky scraping aerobatic display by Raging Bull. Flying a G-EWIZ Pitts S2S, serial 018 which is one of only 30 aircraft ever built it will reach top speed of over 200 mph and capable of pulling plus 6g and minus 5g.

This G-EWIZ was originally built in 1981 for the Australian Aerobatic team and was shipped to UK for an international competition. It has now been rebuilt and modified by pilot/owner, Richard Goodwin, specifically for Air Show Flying. Richard has been flying for the last 33 years and started his aviation career flying the Tornado GR1 in the RAF.

The Biplane enhanced aerobatic capability with unique manoeuvres such as the Double hammer head (or Pin wheel) Tower of power, (Torque roll and backwards flight) and High Alpha Knife edge Flight are just some of the manoeuvres that you’ll witness at The Gloucestershire Steam & Vintage Extravaganza. Displaying at 1pm on the Saturday and Sunday – look to the ground and you will miss it!"

This image is the copyright of © Michael John Stokes; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. Please contact me at mjs@opobs.co.uk for permission to use any of my photographs.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Siddington (show map)

Taken on: August 2, 2014

Tags:

Gloucester Steam Extravaganza

South Cerney

Sets appears in: • 2014 Gloucester Steam Extravaganza

Camera: Canon EOS 6D, f/14.0, 1/1600 sec, 300mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D
Lens:	EF70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM
Aperture:	f/14.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1600)
Focal Length:	300mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh
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