Plane spotters on Fox10

[Chris Kennedy]

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/23673664/2013/10/12/getting-the-perfect-shot-plane-spotters

[Bubak]

Good PR for airplane spotting community.

[Joe Copalman]

Agreed.  Like I said in my previous comment, they did an okay job.

[Paul Dumm]

AAAAGGGG I hate that name, why can't they go with aviation photographer, Spotter sounds like all we care about are tail numbers. Just my 2cents.

[Jeff D. Welker]

AAAAGGGG I hate that name, why can't they go with aviation photographer, Spotter sounds like all we care about are tail numbers. Just my 2cents.

I'm not a big fan of the "spotter" moniker either Paul, but I don't see it as a pejorative. Fact is, many of our fellow aviation photographers do care about the tail numbers. I probably would too, but my brain is too small to hold all the information 

[Joe Copalman]

Nah, some people are just into that stuff and others aren't.  Some guys aren't into airliners, or general aviation, or even military stuff.  People are just into different things.  Some people are content editing their images per the rigid guidelines of some long-established photo websites in hopes of getting one past the screeners, and others are perfectly happy posting shots of purple A-10s or trying to use photo editing software to mimic the look of platinum-palladium prints.  I personally do not identify with the term "spotting," and it's a term we deliberately avoided when we started AzAP.  When you look at the definition of the term on spotting websites, it describes a type of shooting that most of the guys who were involved in AzAP from the beginning really weren't into. 

[Jeff D. Welker]

Spotter or not, who doesn't love a purple A-10 

[Joe Copalman]

My hunch is the Nazis would have found them problematic.