Favorite aerial pics that you have ever shot YOURSELF

[Pilawt]

Taken from the back seat of one of Talkeetna Air Taxi's ski-equipped C-185s:

 

[Ken Ibold]

Just a few faves ...

EDIT: OK, one is not actually an aerial, but oh well.

 

[DavidWhite]

I wish I had a camera that did that flight justice.

 

[MarkZ]

 

[Meanee]

Here's mine. Last one is unrelated, but is unique in a way too.

 

[Threefingeredjack]

A couple from Oregon. Lots of neat visual memories from my career but I never carried a camera on duty. All the neatest shots I have from that period were taken by someone else!!!

 

[LDJones]

Just a few faves ...

EDIT: OK, one is not actually an aerial, but oh well.

Nice. That Epic is beautiful.

 

[Ken Ibold]

Nice. That Epic is beautiful.

It flies really nice, too. One of my favorites ever.

That was a fun trip out to Bend. Flight in the jet, and then a flight in an LT as the photo platform.

 

[Velocity173]

Air to air stuff.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Some views of Oregon.

 

[AvionicsTech]

These are from a couple years ago while we were bringing one of our birds back from the other side of the world. I snagged the one seat in the back with a window and got some shots over Niagara Falls, good one of the spinner, and a nice one of the C-130 paddock at AMARG on our final approach home. I got a bunch of shots, but these are just a few of my faves.

 

[bobby485]

Salt evaporation ponds in the San Francisco bay: Colors of Nature

I was flying the plane (still with my instructor back then), wife was shooting. It was perfect practice for ground reference maneuvers.

 

[Ghery]

I noticed I promised some shots of Mt. St. Helens, and then didn't provide them. See the attached.

The first two are of Mt. St. Helens on different days (years). The older one is from when it was last erupting.

My wife took the second two. The first of the performing arts coliseum at WSU. Easy to spot with the logo on the roof. The second is Mt. Rainier with the reason I got my IR around the base. Had about 4000 feet of clouds to get down through to get home on that flight. Sure was a lot less stressful than going down the Columbia River Gorge and then hoping the bases were high enough to go VFR.

 

[vfsit]

A few more.

Wow that brought back memories.... I'm also a skydiving instructor at KOPN about a month after the tornado it started showing up as a dark scar on the ground that went all the way to the horizon we could see during freefall. You can still see it if you know what you are looking for.

Andy

 

[Everskyward]

Salt evaporation ponds in the San Francisco bay: Colors of Nature

I was flying the plane (still with my instructor back then), wife was shooting. It was perfect practice for ground reference maneuvers.

Lilla is your wife? Those are nice pictures of the salt ponds. I remember as a kid wondering what those red ponds were as we flew in airliners into SFO.

 

[Mike I]

Shot these out of the back of a helicopter (shot myself...didn't say I was flying it!). Door off, AS355. Yankee Stadium was shot during a game, with coordination with TRACON and flew above the sporting event TFR at 3500'.

 

[Tristar]

I love the F-15 pic from Tyndall. I grew up there!!

 

[Tristar]

A few years ago, the CFIs got an opportunity to fly along with the ANG during refueling practice. Talk about a cool experience!

 

[dell30rb]

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[dell30rb]

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[Tristar]

I love thunderstorms as long as I'm not in them. This is somewhere between Texas and Georgia last summer in the C510. There was some awesome cloud to ground lightening. We made sure to give it plenty of space.

 

[Everskyward]

I guess this could be anywhere but it's really over Montana.

 

[asechrest]

Sunset flight, Clearwater, FL.

 

[Bill]

 

[pmanton]

Here's our new house on the airpark. We gave up our runway house but gained a bigger house, bigger hangar and an indoor swimming pool. It's the house with the open hangar and red pickup truck in front. The pool house is behind the house.
Paul
2AZ1

 

[Skyscraper]

Here's some of my favorites.

This was around April of this year IIRC where the Sonoma/Marin Coast meets the Pacific. Flying right up the Tomales Bay.

Disclaimer: iphone snapshots...

 

[pmanton]

Why do some posts display large pictures but others just thumbnails??

 

[momalley]

Why do some posts display large pictures but others just thumbnails??

Small ones are files uploaded to the POA servers, large ones are links to pictures hosted elsewhere

 

[Skyscraper]

Why do some posts display large pictures but others just thumbnails??

You can click the thumbnail image to enlarge it

 

[Jim Logajan]

Small ones are files uploaded to the POA servers, large ones are links to pictures hosted elsewhere

It is also possible to have the thumbnailed image also display full-scale in a post if the poster knows how to get the full URL that the PoA website uses to display that full scale image. They then need to copy that URL into the "Insert Image" dialog. Result is that an extraneous thumbnail image appears at the bottom of the post while the full image also appears in the body of the post. But so far as I can tell you can't get rid of the thumbnails for the uploaded images.

When I upload I sometimes leave just the thumbnails for people to click on since that allows the reader to decide if the image is worth the bandwidth to view. And sometimes I force the full scale image on unsuspecting readers.

 

[Bill]

 

[numl0ck]

Most of NYC from 8500ft and then Manhattan from 1200ft.

 

[Pilawt]

This one got published ...

 

[RyanShort1]

Here are two from yesterday's flight. I have a bunch...

Ryan

 

[DesertNomad]

May 2012 over Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe/Zambia border from our C182.

 

[BillTIZ]

Watson Lake, BC, Summer of 2012

 

[Dan Thomas]

North Thompson Valley, BC, Labour Day Weekend 2013.

 

[Todd Copeland]

Pittsburgh area, today.

 

[Skip Miller]

B06 Basin Harbor, VT.

 

[Tarheelpilot]

a couple of my favorites