Continuing my trips out for the day I visited the Midlands Air Museum at Coventry Airport. A good collection of aircraft that I recall from my early days of aircraft spotting and visiting air shows.
Midlands Air Museum
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Cotswold Airport
After a walk in the local area I stopped off at this airport for a spot of photography and lunch. The AV8 cafe is open to the public and it was very busy when I visited last week. It was still the school summer holidays and the weather was great…
Boeing 747-400 ex BA
Cotswold Airport at Kemble used to be the home of the RAF acrobatic display team The Red Arrows. However, now it is perhaps more well known as where obsolete aircraft are broken up for spares. During the Covid pandemic in 2020 BA decided to retire its fleet of Boeing 747s and many were sent here to be scrapped. One G-CVIB was spared and it now rests close to the restaurant/cafe as a nightclub and cafe. It means that visitors can get up close and personal with it.
Photoshop’s Sky Replacement Tool
Adobe’s Photoshop software continues to evolve with more additions being added all the time. One recent new feature is Sky Replacement. Some sample skies are included to get you started. You can, of course, add your own and use them which is a great asset if you are “creating” new images and uploading them to library websites. At least then the complete copyright rests with me as the photographer and so I do not need to worry unduly on this score.
I have played around with it using examples of aircraft images shot during a visit I paid to Turweston airfield in June 2021. Here is one of my reworked images.
