Sounds like hes been having a bad day lol.

It's a real shame I haven't been able to make it over to Shoreham this weekend as it looks like there has been alot of action.

I did go to Popham for the Fly-in and biker meet yesterday but the weather made sure than very little turned up (well for Popham's standards lol there was still constant movement of traffic.) only a few Harley-Davidsons turned up

Anyway your pics are the next best thing to being there lol.

Pete

Great shots Doug. Probably John had a rough night sleeping under a bush or something to make him grumpy

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? Bizarre, although on of the chaps in your arrival photos was back at work this morning...

My Tin-can worked fine today!

Okay; those are lovely (I'm a big VTOL fan; like that shot w/the verical-thrust heat shimmer, there,
yessir- and that Spitfire!! Wow!!).    But your new mission, as I see it, is for you to capture one of
these  "beat-ups" (which is actually called "buzzing the tower", but you can use whatever phrase
you like ).  We're counting on you, son... make us proud! Too bad about the Harriers, tsk, tsk.
If only you'd set the camera on top of your head....
Meanwhile, next airshow (which I hope doesn't occur with me as PIC!) I get to, I will try to get something
like that, although "buzzing the tower" has fallen out of favor around here... I've never seen that.

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Thanks Rotty. Glad you liked them. I don't know the technical term but we always called thewm beatups in my part of the world. This is traditional at Shoreham when the service teams depart on the Monday after Airbourne. I got some great shots with my old camera this time last year & was expecting the Harriers to approach from the north. I was on the steps outside the terminal building ready to capture them heading straight towards me across the airfield. They fooled me by coming in line astern from the opposite direction & suddenly appeared straight over the hangar roof alongside me. This took me completely by surprise but it's not often you see a Harrier (let alone two) screaming past at full chat almost level with you. They were so close I couldn't have taken a decent shot even at full wide angle. At least I was in the perfect place to get the full effect.

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I can certainly see your point Roger. She's beautiful. Glad you like my pics. Only wish I could have done better. The wind direction is so important in this lark & unusually it's been in the north for much of the weekend. Typically it swung round to the prevailing SW soon after the last aircraft had left.

I got this on Friday during John Romain's superb display in the Spit. Starting with a fast run straight up the runway from the south. I was in the wrong place (again) but you can just see the top of the hangar I'm talking about at bottom right.  

I have the same camera as you Doug (as you already know ) and I have the tele-converter lense for it. For me it seems to make quite a difference but one thing that is annoying is the telescope effect you get if you zoom out too far. You don't always see it whilst shooting but when you come to upload the shots you have a curved black edges on the photo. For shooting things close to you need to take the lense off and as you say, this gets a bit fiddly. If my budget goes to it next year I may look out for a decent DSLR, but I'm happy with the Fuji for now.