Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX, KPHX)

[Chris V]

Some shots taken Saturday after the weather broke. Amazing low clouds & vapor, wish it was like that more often at PHX.

[Matt Ottosen]

Boeing 737-7H4
Southwest Airlines

[Tower Guy]

Chris, outstanding group of shots, my fav is the ASR radar and radio tower to the right. That sunset is near perfect, color, clouds, and aircraft in the background, beautiful.

[Anna M. Wood]

Some shots taken Saturday after the weather broke. Amazing low clouds & vapor, wish it was like that more often at PHX.

Chris, Excellent set of shots from Saturday.  Very, very nice.....

[Anna M. Wood]

American Airlines departing on a stormy night.

Anna - Great image. I photographed that exact same plane; apparently only moments before you. I like yours much better for several reasons. First, you allowed the 737 to rise slightly above the color chaos of the background lights being smeared by your slow shutter speed panning. This better allows for a contrasting of the dark sky background and the near white fuselage - the aircraft is more clearly seen. Second, the clouds at the top of the frame help identify the "weather" in the area of PHX. Third, you did not crop tight in camera (as I did). Allowing the extra space ahead of the climbing 737 helps to accentuate the motion of this departing aircraft. One of my all time favorite images from Sky Harbor. If Matt had not nominated this image for POTM, I would have. Well done young lady.

Thank you very much Jeff...

I wish I had put that much thought into the image.  I was taking pictures to the west and was down a bit north of that edge of the deck with my 24-105mm when I turned around and saw the AA flight departing.  Fire off some quick shots from where I was standing.  Serendipity that I managed to get a relatively clean shot without people in the way.

[Chris V]

Thanks everyone! Great shots by everyone!

[Joe Copalman]

Joe - Your image makes it look as if you were shooting through a gauze curtain. Very cool effect; intended or not. I did not think HDR with either this version or the first. The muted colors of the 737 behind the veil of rain is contrasted by the "pop" of color from the strobes. Was this a slightly longer exposure?

That was the effect I was going for, focusing on the rain hitting the ledge in the foreground with the airplane being blurred out in the background.  Had to jack up the vibrance and the blue and orange saturation a bit to get the 737 to pop a bit - the colors in the original are much more muted, like a color image with a 50-75% monochrome layer over it.  Shutter speed was 1/25 to get long streaks of water. 

[Scott Youmans]

Some shots taken Saturday after the weather broke. Amazing low clouds & vapor, wish it was like that more often at PHX.

Absolutely amazing vortex shot Chris. Top notch!

[Jonathan Navarro]

Was kind of upset that I got to the airport after the sun had set but I was still able to get a few good photos...
CATCHING THE LAST RAYS by Jonathan Navarro, on Flickr
Was lucky to catch this one because the next day it was sent to the paint shop to get its titles changed to American.
TWO OF A KIND by Jonathan Navarro, on Flickr

[Matt Ottosen]

The Faces of Southwest

Boeing 737-7H4
Classic


Boeing 737-8H4
Canyon Blue


Boeing 737-7H4
Heart

[Anna M. Wood]

The Faces of Southwest

Great set of Southwest shots Matt....

[Matt Ottosen]

Great set of Southwest shots Matt....

Thanks Anna!

[Jeff D. Welker]

Nicely done Matt. Your three photographs motivated me to process a few more images from that wet Saturday afternoon/evening.

[Matt Ottosen]

Nicely done Matt. Your three photographs motivated me to process a few more images from that wet Saturday afternoon/evening.

Thanks Jeff! I'm glad I motivated you to work on these beauties.

[Matt Ottosen]

Boeing 737-823
American Airlines
Flagship Liberty
"In support of all who serve."