Given to Fly
Giving to Fly - 5.1mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/250 sec
I was driving out to a shopping centre on Saturday and was a bit disappointed to see that most of the Second World War aircraft at the Lasham Gliding Club had been removed. I'm glad I got a few pictures of them earlier in the year, but it's still a loss to the community I feel. I wonder where they are being moved to. I had my Leica D-Lux 4 with me, so I pulled over on the way home to take some photographs of the last remain aircraft there.
I have no idea what type of aircraft it is besides kaput. My only guess would be a spitfire, but that's just a guess. Might just head out there again now, or tomorrow evening to see if I can take some abstract shots of the remains of what were I'm sure, aircraft that helped defend England during the Second World War.
Bull's Eye from the Sky - 5.1mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/250 sec
I've included the Silver Efex Pro presets at the end of this post for those of you interested in the processing of these images. The top image was actually processed twice. First with Ilford FP4 Plus 125 film. The results from that are seen in the image below. I then decided to use the preset from the image above to process it further and I really liked the result so much that I decided to go with that image as the main headline. The second process involved Ilford XP2 Super 200 film and I think the grain achieved mixing the two is quite remarkable in the sky of the top image. I think it's very cool! I like the photograph below too.
Giving to Fly - 5.1mm at f/2, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/250 sec
Processing and blogging inspiration courtesy of Pearl Jam - Given to Fly ♫ This is for me an Epic Pearl Jam song. My favourite lyric is right at the end of the song (but there are lots of cool parts to this track):
"And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
A human being that was given to fly"
