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I spend the easter weekend on Aruba. I went there especially to see the Venezuelean airlines that are hard to get elsewhere.
Photograpy on Aruba is a challenge, especialy with the light. The sun goes straight overhead, following the direction of the runway.
The best photo's are made in the first and last few hours of daylight
No shortage in Venezuelan general aviation, please let me know if you want more of these
Other american hardware
Dominican wings was flying for Aruba Airlines
They were flying themselves aswell offcourse
It's not all South American, United, AA, Jetblue, Southwest and canadian operators are also regulars
Very nice set of pictures.
Please tell me something about the location(s) You took them.
In autumn 2015 I experienced real problems with the fence. E.g. the mesh was too narrow for my wide angle lens
and a didn't bring in a 5+ step-ladder from Europe to point my camera over it -:)))
So I stayed at rwy 11 approach end, where some construction work was going on at that time and only make-shift portable fences
instead of the normal ones made for a fine (Camera-) view to the holding point.
But I enjoyed it anyway, just as You did. I hope to come back to Aruba next year.
Regards
Tommy
Thanks for the comment and compliments, I really appreciate.
Yes the fence limits the possibilities, I also stayed at the 11 end of the runway. There was a stong wind the whole time (you can see it from the palm trees) so there was no risk of a runway change.
In the morning I was along the taxiway just before the turn onto the runway. There was one spot were the mesh was made a bit rounder just enough to set my 70-300 lens against and with some carefull centering shoot through when the aircraft turned onto the runway or were touching down.
In the afternoon I moved to the crashgate beyond the runway where it was easy to shoot the aircraft in the short leg towards the runway or just before touchdown.
Other than that the fence is indeed pretty solid.
I will process some of the many general aviation planes and make them into a seperate subject.
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