flying

To the Monolith

To the Monolith. An Atlas Air Boing 747 (Orion III) freighter departing from the Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport. Photo taken with the Panasonic DMC-GX85 and Lumix G 12-32 lens. (Obscure movie reference warning).

Shipping the Monolith

K Norton Thu, 06/24/2021 - 11:36
Found Aircraft Canada FBA-2C1

An aircraft oddity - The "Found Aircraft Canada" FBA-2C1. N796 Landing on Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska. Photo taken with the Olympus E-3 with 50-200 SWD lens. Additional processing and cropping performed in Adobe Lightroom.

Found Canada Aircraft

 

K Norton Fri, 09/04/2020 - 19:20

Antonov AN-225 Departing Anchorage

Submitted by K Norton on Sun, 06/07/2020 - 15:08

The Antonov AN-225 departing Anchorage. Photographed from Arctic Valley Road. Sony A7 II with OM Zuiko 300/4.5 and 1.4x Teleconverter. It had just started to downpour at my location when the jet was taking off. The shooting distance to the airplane is nearly 15 miles when this photograph was taken.

Converted and edited in Lightroom for artistic intent.

AN-225 Anchorage Departure

The Antonov AN-225 Mriya

Submitted by K Norton on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 04:56

Antonov An-225 Mriya taxiing for takeoff at Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport (PANC), departing to Toronto. This is at 11:30 PM. Photographed with the Sony A7 II and Olympus OM Zuiko 300/4.5 lens. Additional cropping performed to correct photographer's framing error. ISO 160, F8, 1/60.

AN-225

 

Converting fuel into smoke and sound

AN-225