Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase

Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase

Editorial Staff

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 12:00 AM ET

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AVweb hosts a weekly "Picture of the Week" contest, inviting readers to submit their best aviation photographs.
Dozens of submitted photos are reviewed weekly, with one standout photo earning the title and an AVweb baseball cap.
The article features a gallery of various reader-submitted aviation photos, complete with titles, photographers' credits, and often technical details or anecdotes about the shots.

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Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings – and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap as our “Picture of the Week.” Want to see your photo here? Click here to submit it to our weekly contest.

T-28 Coming in to Park

Jimmy Robinson of LaGrange, GA

This image was taken at the Boshears Airshow in Augusta, Georgia on October 14, 2011.

It was taken with a Nikon D-200 at 1/200 and F-16 . It was metered on the low sun to produce intentional backlighting and highlighting of the dust.

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Days Gone By

Forrest D. Fasig of Dayton, NV

Sunny spring day in Lone Pine with the spirits of pilots past sitting on the airport sign grading landings.

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Early Morning at Big Creek

Allen Macbean of Orem, UT

Parked at Big Creek in the early morning in our Cessna 170B.

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Reflections

Assaf Sarfati of Tiv’on (Israel)

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Onset of the Stall – By the Experts!

Mike Foster & George Kovacevic of Jamul, CA

My brother-in-law, Mike Foster, took this while visiting San Diego.

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“When a Body Meets a Body, Coming Through the Rye …”

John Kliewer of North Newton, KS

This photo was taken one day before wheat harvest at Don Horst’s farm strip three miles northwest of EWK with a Nikon Coolpix; no digital manipulation.

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