Keeth France Photos

The British Airways eta was 15.35 but around 15.15 I took a glance at the western horizon, just in case, and lo and behold, there was the Iron Bird on final with a few  hundred meters to touch down, but I was ready this time, and managed to squeeze off 20 frames in the few seconds afforded. With the motor drive high you just pan with the action and let it rip. I am rather pleased with the additional images captured, but I still need to get another 20 images from over Government House, so the action continues next week Saturday, DV. It is sometimes humorous how photographers take hundreds of images to get just one. That was the first thing that I learned more than 45 years ago, and back then it was done with film, but let us not think about the cost, because today with the comparatively FREE digital film, I find it more than humorous that some photographers feel they can get the perfect shot in five or six. But they know what science they are working with so who am I to think. My meth

My photo self assignment continues today and I believe that I will finally have my way. Almost two months ago I decided to create images of the British Airways jetliner on approach to the Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw International Airport, from my second floor veranda which faces North and runs perpendicular to the approach path, some 800 meters away or less. The British Airways flight from Britain to St Kitts is only on Saturday afternoon. I have not been able to capture the images I need over the last six or seven weeks, mainly because I have not been "in the right place and the right time" to effect the capture. When you are 'cooping' a jetliner that is passing a half mile away, across your sights at about 275 miles per hour, you may only have 5 seconds,  if so much, to get the shots, so you have to be awake, alert, and ready for the action. Last Saturday afternoon I was on the gallery waiting, but talking to family members and friends, so when I heard the jetline

On one of my ham radio blogs a week or two ago, I made a conclusive comment on a piece of electronic equipment, as I saw it from where I was standing, and had to elucidate, as it were, for the benefit of a couple readers, not that they were not following my reasoning, but they did not quite see it from the other side of the room like I did. In browsing my last post I note that I made reference to a situation, and I think that I should also elucidate and maybe illustrate and demonstrate, so that readers can better appreciate my comment. We now live in the information age so we should not be skimping on info, nor should we be trying to withhold, as in hide, info and knowledge from our bothers and sisters. In paragraph nine [9] of the last post, inter alia, I wrote So I do not use Photoshop, not that I do not have it on my computer, but I do not use it to process my digital negatives. If you are serious about photography you will find out that there are far better and cheaper tools on