Concorde last flight on TV this morning channel 3.

It's an age thing, isn't it. If I squint a bit, I can just about consider
Flic Kendall. But PK? That'd be worthy of rotten.com

 

Mick Whittingham wrote

Is this the last of the last flights it will ever make or just an
ordinary last flight it will ever make?

 

For those wot give a ****, I drove a 260 mile round trip in the shit and
rain and hail and cold to take this:

http://www.wormpurple.com/images/conc.jpg

 

Didn't go your bike then? poof.

 

Ooh, but I did. My fingers were like little blocks of ice, I tell you.

<re-reads original post: d'oh>

-drove +rode

 

My gf sent me a text message - it flew right over her house on it's
way to landing in Bristle. She was quite emotional about it, as her
dad, who died recently, spent much of his working life on this plane.

 

Nice.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Sarah reports that it flew around her office, doing a last turn around
Bristol before finals. Personally, I'd have liked a Mach 2 beat-up...

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VN800 Drifter, R80RT, Z200
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15

 

I'm with you, buddy.

 

Good shot, how long a lens were you using to get it with the wheels up
though?

I live right under the flight path for one of the runways (fortunately
they fly high enough here that the noise isn't a problem), so as the
last of the final three fare paying flights came over I pointed a
camera skywards and took this:
http://www.kolonie.dircon.co.uk/picture/Concord.jpg
(C) me natch

I printed it up big (about 20" long) in my darkroom, looks great,
least ways I certainly like it.

ZK

 

That's excellent. How sharp is it IRL?

 

That's a scan of a 8"x10" copy of the image IRL, though the clouds
have been ever so slightly tweaked digitally. The 20" long version is
still nicely sharp, though I am also going to try it using a variety
of different papers and developers. I'm pretty sure that with some
more experimentation and a little dodging I can get the clouds to come
through just the same on the non-digitally-tweaked copy. (Not having
much in the way of expensive digital facilities I'll be sticking to my
expensive conventional darkroom for the time being).

Cheers.

ZK - uk.rec.motorcycles.artsy.fartsy.photography anyone?

 

300mm on a Canon EOS300D, so it's cropped to effectively the same as a 480mm
on 35mm.

Nice, that. I used to enjoy my B&W darkroom in days of old, but now I'm a
slave to Photoshop.

 

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