Wednesday, November 4, 2009

FA-14 Superhornet fly over the Detroit River

It was beautiful July day and I had wanted to go to Belle Isle to shoot the hydroplanes during the time trials and this was the last day to see them for free. Wanted to take the grandsons but they had their own plans so I threw my camera equipment in the saddlebag of my Harley and rode off to Belle Isle by myself. I didn’t have much time because I had plans for the evening so the intention was to go take some quick pictures and get back. When I arrived at Belle Isle the hydroplanes were in between heats and all the boats were out of the water. I waited for about an hour and when it didn’t seem that there was going to be another run soon I decided to leave. As I was coming to the bridge over the Detroit River I heard a roar in the sky and I quickly saw a jet streak across the river at tree top level. So I pulled over to see what was going on and was about to leave again when it streaked passed me a second time. Now I wondered if it would do it a third time so just to be ready I pulled out the camera. Sure enough a few minute later I could hear it in the distance and before I could ready the camera it had streaked pass me again. I thought I was going to miss this opportunity so I got ready. I could hear the jet off in the distance so I steadied myself but before I knew it the jet zoom past me before I could take the picture. Frustrated I hoped that I could at least capture one shoot but the jet snuck past two more time before finally capturing these 5 shots.









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