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Doc at Goodyear this morning:

DOC 72 by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

Got a nice low approach from Belgium this afternoon

BELGIAN WAFFLE by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

Caught the Gamblers new colorbird this weekend.

WE PLAY TO WIN by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

The Yuma show never disappoints.

MAGTF Demo by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

PBJ and Hellcat by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

VMFA-224 colorbird by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

[hmtl]Patriots Jet Team by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

Never say no to a Cobra.

RIDE DAY by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

Just watched the latest COAP editing workshop. Learned lots of good things, once again. (Creating your own light source with a radial gradient = mind blown!).

Decided to use what I learned and combined that with a motion blur edit in Photoshop (Shot at 1/400 that day, so no motion blur, oops...). Did some dodging and burning on the bottom part of the fuselage to bring out the white underside of the plane, and increase the saturation on the top. Linear gradient on top and bottom to tone down the sun.

NOVEMBER SEVEN FIVE SEVEN ALFA FOX by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

Woke up early this morning to catch the Cobra doing some rides:

IMG_7626 by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

Yup, you can definitely get fire/police and weather. (I only know because I was getting it at first and it got to be too much.....!)

Yes it is! I still have mine that I got a few years ago now. Usually runs about $100-150 on Amazon, but it's worth every penny.

Good light on Sunday.....

LEGACY SUNSET by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

death rattlers by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr

"The Snake Charmers...."

Had a fun morning at Falcon shooting the Cobra. Good to see everyone again.

Finally got a good shot of the Hind at this past WTI...!

Figured I'd create a new thread for this one. Thanks Matt for getting this working again!!!

SWA 737-Max 8 about to touch down after its second ever revenue flight PDX - PHX shot at 1/30th shutter speed

1/30? Nice. I'm lucky if I can get anything below 1/100. Lol.