[Leica] Holiday snaps 1 - Spits and Arrows

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

Douglas,

You always seem to get great shots of fly-overs, and these seem to be some 
of the best yet.

Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>; <leicareflex@freelists.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:00 PM
Subject: [Leica] Holiday snaps 1 - Spits and Arrows


> Hello all,
> just got back from 3 weeks in the UK last night.
>
> Here are a few shots taken at the 167th Whitby Regatta, the Red Arrows 
> aerobatic team and a couple of Spitfires (one early model and one late 
> one)
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070812-_MG_6824-1.jpg.html
>  
> (Early)
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6548-1.jpg.html
>  
> (Late - with D-Day stripes Mk LF IXe (?) 1944)
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070812-_MG_6823-1.jpg.html
>  
> (Early model - Mk IIa (?) 1940)
>
> Rather more modern , and exciting in a different way - The Red Arrows - 
> regular visitors to the Whitby Regatta
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6597-1.jpg.html
>  
> All 9 aircraft coming in over the bay
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6670-1-2.jpg.html
>  
> A Trio showing off
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6671-1-2.jpg.html
>  
> An (apparently ) close encounter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6573-1-2.jpg.html
>  
> Diving out of a clear blue sky
>
> More to come when I get around to sifting through another couple of 
> thousand shots. Vintage cars and motor bikes, Fish and Chip victims, Goth 
> girls, fat ladies, streets, beaches and sunsets, fairgrounds, 
> trains.......
>
> Hope you all like the first selection
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
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