NO PHOTOSHOP! - Look Closely...

This is probably my favorite serendipity shot of a very long career. A print has been hanging in my own living room for over twenty years! Let me tell you the s...
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This is probably my favorite serendipity shot of a very long career. A print has been hanging in my own living room for over twenty years! Let me tell you the story…

A subject I like to shoot is living history museums. One evening, after a day of shooting at Old Sturbridge Village (in Sturbridge, MA), I was leaving at sweet light time, when they closed on me… I was just getting on the road (route 27) when I saw a plane flying exactly in front of the full moon!...

Excellent! But I was in the car, and didn't have my camera out. C'est la vie… I pulled off the road anyhow…

But I thought, what if the that plane was on the main flight path at the nearby local airport?… If so, maybe another might come along?… So I set up my tripod and waited... And, voila!, one did only a few minutes later! Here is the result. The last rays of the setting sun on the low lying clouds added to the shot.

I shot this my trusty Nikon F2 on Kodachrome. I guarantee that the plane in the image was shot on the film. I only used a little Photoshop to pop the color of my scan a bit.
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