Great shots Jim and Rich! Thanks for the comment Rich, it's also still one of my favorites. I've actually never seen an A-10 in flight. They don't come to the Netherlands that often unfortunately.


This year the Dutch Airshow was at Gilze-Rijen AB and I rented a 7D and 100-400 for this day. Unfortunately the weather really sucked(grey is keyword) and the 7D was not working with me. (worse photos ever, 9/10 where very soft the other 1 was acceptably soft [:P]The 100-400 proved much better on my 5D even with it's slower AF, next time better) I shot on AV-mode because the weather and lightingconditions were changing constantly. There was 1 show where the camera didn't even focus at all since it was a plain grey sky with a plain grey plane in front of it [:O]


Also the flares seemed to be a big problem for the AF, everytime they used flares my AF flipped and I got nothing more than some nice bokeh [:P]


Anyway there are a few I want to show.


-Belgian F-16 solo display





400mm f5.6 ISO200 1/500


-Belgian F-16 solo display throwing some flares





400mm f5.6 ISO200 1/1600


-(Tsjechian or Hungarian) Saab Jas-39 Gripen solo display





400mm f5.6 ISO400 1/2500


- Dutch Apache and F-16 solo displays flying by together





170mm f8 ISO100 1/250


-Dutch Apache solo displays first performance ever, shooting flares while making a looping





300mm f5.6 ISO400 1/2500


-Dutch Eurocopter Cougar MKII carrying luggage for a troop deployment later on





235mm f6.3 ISO100 1/250


-Royal Jordanian Falcons





260mm f5.6 ISO100 1/400


Well I guess better luck next time!


Thanks for watching, all comments are welcome.


Jan