Randolph AFB Air Show this weekend....

[Shadow]

http://www.randolph.af.mil/library/2...show/index.asp

[Toby]

Well here's my story at the Airshow today...

I showed up at 6 AM. Yes, that early. It was heavily socked in with fog, about 1/8 of a mile to near zero and there wasn't anyone around except for those setting up. I highly encourage it if you can get up that and have the means to get on base this early.

To make a long story short, shot about 1800 photos, so here are a few that I managed to go through. It was a long day but worth it. My only complaint is that I got tired of the prop job acro types. A bit too many in my opinion. Anyway, here are a few, enjoy!

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[Shadow]

Nice. Looks like you were shooting into the Sun? F-22 is my dream to see.

[Toby]

Yep, not the best in terms of photographing in the air stuff, but we made do. Sunday is forecasted to be more cloudier than Saturday, so I'm happy with what I took Friday and today.

[Shadow]

I'm sitting in Houston, deciding if it's worth the trip, due to the weather. Doesn't look like it will be ideal, by a long shot. Nice job. :-)

[KeithnFW]

My only complaint is that I got tired of the prop job acro types. A bit too many in my opinion.

agree . . they're kinda like drum solos at a rock concert. Okay for about 5 minutes.

[Toby]

Glad I went yesterday! It was gloomy and drizzle for most part of the day. I doubt that anyone flew.

Here's a few more I've been playing with today...

[venomm]

new to this forum... Spent the most part of today out at the airshow today in the cold and rain, I did get a few snap shots but nothing compared to these, Great work!! I love the F22 picture, I have a few I took out at Edwards AFB few years back that turned out well...

[Shadow]

I was going to make the trip from Houston for it, but scratched due to the weather. Was it really bad? Did they cancel some performers?

[Toby]

Thanks Shadow. So was any flying accomplished today? I bet the crowds were way down!

[Skele]

I don't know about that side of town but over on the NW side, it was horrible. I stepped out with every intention of going and it was raining cats and dogs. As much as I would have liked to have gone, I'll just have to live vicariously through the pictures here

[venomm]

I got there at 12:30 in the rain and abotu 12:45 it stopped but the ceiling was still so low they said noone would be flying today, so we walked around till 1:30 playing games looking at the planes ect and around 1:45 they announced SHOW WAS ON... so under went TORA TORA TORA fallowed by 2 stunt planes around 2:30 it started to rain again so they waited about 10 min did another fly around in the a-10 dropped a few bombs, with awesome pyrotechnics considering it had just rained... and at 3:00 the F-18 came out My dad was crew chief for 14 yrs so when the Fighters come out to play its THE HIGH LIGHT of the show, maybe 5 min into that more rain so they did 2 high speed photo passes and landed. Not even a few seconds after that it was raining so hard you could not see 5 ft in front of you so show was canceled, We had to walk from the far side where they take off ALL AROUND to the front where the Buses are * 25-30 min in the rain that didnt slow up one bit * I felt sorry for everyone with out umbrellas as they were getting SOAKED... All in all it was a great show, I have spend the last 24 years going to these and they always manage to put on a good show no matter what!!!

[dezignMedia]

Phenomenal shots, Bryan!!

[venomm]

Here are some pictures Graves took from another forum, awesome work OP!

http://dgraves.smugmug.com/Airplanes...08135507_ymvqc

[swjim]

Beautiful shots, Bryan!