RAF Cottesmore - 27/02/2008

Following on from two excellent visits at the backend of 2007, Matty Jessop, Marcus Jellyman and myself decided we'd have another crack at the sunsets.

The morning wasn't expecially busy, but the light was lovely. I'd recently taken delivery of a 2x Canon converter and was using it with the Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 lens, thus making it 240-600mm f5.6, before the digital crop was taken into consideration. Whilst I came away with some images I was happy with, the general degardation in quality means that it's not something I will repeat too often. Worth a try and an awful lot cheaper than buying a 600mm fixed!

The afternoon was considerably busier and we were facing the prospect of having nine aircraft out in the time around the 'golden' half hour.

I finally caught up with IV(AC)Sqn's 90th anniversary kite.

Sadly there was more cloud present than ideal and the majority of recoveries had already taken place before the nice colours started to appear in the sky.

A taste of what might have been....

It is so rare for everything to come together at the right time at COT, but when it does it's definitely worth the effort. Sadly, this was one of those occasions that didn't quite work out...