Wow, this is such a beautiful shot. I love the composition - it's so much more effective than if the plane was in the center of the frame. Then the tones - absolutely gorgeous... Great image!!

Same here. I got the flu two weeks ago and it seems like it completely killed my inspiration and ability to take good photographs as well.. I cant get back into it! But I do love this shot Dave... I think it works well with the overall tone. Get well soon.

Well I hope your whole family get well soon. And for the rest.... Must of your crap is better than my best picture. So please stop saying that. In this one I particularly like the blurness (does that word exist? or I just made it up?) in the background, in contrast with the clarity of the airplane.

keep shooting hundreds more, inspiration will come back automatically
i like this one, but there's a little too much empty space on the right for my taste

This actually reminds me about the movie Sky Captain And the World of Tomorrow. Which was a really nice movie. So indeed, a very nice piece of art.

This is exactly what I like about pictures. They bring you memories. And you can connect them into almost everything. Events, feelings, music etcetc.

Good lord, David, that's incredible.

looks like an old World War II photo (yes I am ahistory buff) ... love it !

yeah, that is perfect! so calm and still so exciting! wonderful composition!
- that might sound a bit uptight.. hehe, it is great! that's the easy thing s\to say! Really nice!
And I if this sets the standard of this week, I'm looking farward to it, even you don't seem to be in so high spirit!

Feel better!

Hope you're feeling better soon. This is a remarkable photo!

I like how everything else is blurred and the plane is sharply focused. I hpoe you and your family feel better.

man, I hope you get better soon, you sound grumpy! This shot is fantastic, if your muse is on that plane (Calliope?) then she must have gotten on so you could take this wicked photograph. And I don't like to say wicked.

This on really, really does it for me. The plane above the triangle...great composition. The mood of the whole picture is just great.

I hope your feeling better soon.

Sorry to hear you and the family aren't well. Hope you all feel better soon.

As for posting stuff you later decide you don't like, well, I do that too. I guess everyone does. (BICBW)

Anyway. I really like this one.

Hope everyone gets well soon! Man, even the photos you think are crap are still cool!!

We shall be your eyes while you are ill. Hope you and yours feel better soon. Fantastic photo.

strangely enough, this is nice
it looks like a scene from a pre-war movie war movie
well done

I am sooo loving this shot.

I love your space. Very cool pics!!

Nice one Dave, great tones. We've both been in 'airport mode' this week...

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Nice crispness and composition Dave.
Get well mate

Get well soon Dave!

Sorry, David, we expect greatness day in and day out. If you can't be consistent, why bother? =)

Al kidding aside, I am really liking this shot. Those skies look menacing.

I hope the everyone feels better soon!

Nice

I think there is a strain of the flu going around with sinus (sinusitis like) complications. I had it two weeks ago, and since 80% of the people I knew have went through it. Unlikely that it is a cold, although it definitely started off as one for me.

It took me about 1.5 weeks to get fully better. So a few more days. :)

I think since you keep up photography on such a constant basis, photographs should and will reflect your inner state. If that inner state is at the moment fighting sickness - nothing wrong with that. Moody, dark, odd, work with it. :)

Great shot indeed - perhaps too great - it looks as though the plane was stuck on afterwards..... My mind can't decide whether the plane should be there or not, hugely engaging shot!

Did you almost relegate this to the bin?! This is excellent, one of your best in a while. If the plane was a touch bigger (closer) then it might have been better. But given his roll angle he's probably not staying in that position for long!

i usually reserve commenting here because you get such positive critiques i don't want to be a whisper in the crowd... but boy, this one's fantastic.

Thanks everyone :-)

Didn't comment before and I am now glad Dave, it didn't strike me at first but I look and then I find I look again.

The plane may be a little small but then, that said, I think what saves this image is the contrast, the cloud is a billowing mass that is seemingly all engulfing and the plane looks like it is entering this abyss. Then you have the foreground and the clouds, both of which, blurred, giving just a wonderfully enigmatic backdrop/foreground so that it all becomes one against that pinsharp machine of the sky.

I like the subtlety of this image. Like an aged whisky endless depth.

This is truly impressive. In a post- 9/11 world, I think it perhaps even has additional, however subliminal, meaning.

Great shot! I love the bank of the plane, sort of lends me to a "I am outta here" feeling. Nice work.

This is like a still from a movie, and is extremely atmospheric. Your muse certainly wasn't absent, but your discrimination was indeed clouded if you felt this was a crap shot...it's definitely up there with the best of them...

Here's one for your book project. As I see some have pointed out it's like a middle frame of story. Very nice and messy. I like it.

Love the sepia-tone. The little plane almost has a toy-effect (which would go perfectly with all the toy-cars, toy-streets and toy-livingrooms that are out there right now...)

wooooow...absolutely pefect comp, great shot