Newbie spotter from Florida
Hi everyone, Greetings from a newbie spotter from Florida. A huge thanks to Phil for giving me leads on figuring out a spotting site. It was interesting because I was in NY without a car, relying on the metro and the bus, so the night before I had planned contingency routes in case the airport switched runway on me. Initially the runway arrival was 31L and while I was on Q60 trying to get to Costco, it changed to 22L. So I got off on Farmer Blvd and walked several blocks on 147 Ave, took the Q113 to 230 Ave and went to the soccer mound.
The soccer mound is now one of my favorite spotting place. Next time I go to NYC again I will definitely visit that spot. Probably at different time of the day though...as unfortunately the sun was shining against the A380...on the wrong side.
I apologize for the quality of the image but I do not have a DSLR...and I am fairly new to photography (started planespotting in November of 2006 when I purchased my first camera, Panasonic FZ50).
Thanks again Phil...you've definitely given the newbie spotter an opportunity of a lifetime. :D
Taken from the soccer mound:
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http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~therchen/imag...0638_small.jpg