NAS El Centro Air Show 2011

Well the 2011 Air Show season is now upon us with the Blue Angels launching off in El Centro and the Thunderbirds this coming weekend at Luke AFB in Arizona. I managed to get Saturday off from work and was able to fly down and attend the show! Special thanks to Opi from Viper West for the great hospitality after the show and to the F-18 pilot that was nice enough to take me out on the flight line to get some shots of him with his aircraft after his flight. There are many more shots still to come but these are a few that I have managed to get done to this point, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them!

Viper West Crew looking on while waiting for taxi clearance-
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Captain Dover of the Viper West crew giving his boys and the crowd a hang loose and relax while he goes out to do his show-
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Baby Huey from the flight line-
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Fat Albert leading up to the Blue Angels-
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The Blues doing a Break on top of the moon! Wish it was a little more in focus though but I will take it over nothing-
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And like I said there will definitely be more to come!

Great set - you're photo journal skills have really developed! That moon shot is unreal.

WOW !!! That Blue Angels MOON SHOT is just INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!! :cool:

Love the "watermark" on the second pic!

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Originally Posted by LIMatt

Love the "watermark" on the second pic!

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LOL! I had to look for it.

That moon shot is amazing! Well Done!

Great set Brandon... you may think this is crazy but my fave is the first one... nice color and composition!

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Originally Posted by seahawks7757

The Blues doing a Break on top of the moon! Wish it was a little more in focus though but I will take it over nothing-
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HOLY **** WHAT A SHOT!! Definitely wall-worthy.

Thanks Everyone, I was thinking about that Blues shot, have it be on one of those posters that have quotes and words on it. I was thinking the word to be in the black border would be precision.

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Originally Posted by heeshung

HOLY **** WHAT A SHOT!! Definitely wall-worthy.

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Screw that. Its poster worthy. This is to die for. Brandon if you ask me the out of focus areas only add to this. Hell I say this needs to go up on the site page. Dude you obliterated that nail aside from hitting it.

Brandon, you're going to submit that moon shot for the photo contest, right? Hell of a shot! THat shot made me get even more impatient for the airshows to get to New England!

I can not comment at this time Steve. But thanks for the compliment :cool:

Nice catch on the moon and BS's. good stuff, I still must wait 2 more moths for my first Air Show, I will start 2011 at Langley AFB :)

Excellent photos Brandon. I agree with the others, that moon shot is awesome.

Isaac

Thanks Isaac and Chris. Looking at shows over the next couple of months. SMF is a possibility and wanting to do Andrews but very unlikely.

C-17 action-
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