I was as usual running close to being late yesterday.  It was shaping up to be another HOT day and I was zooming along the back roads on my way to highway 61 with the air conditioning running at full speed.

Tuesday I had been in Monticello and when I went by the airport there were 5 crop dusting planes sitting on the tarmac with their engines running loading chemicals to spray.  I took a picture of one of them for my 365 project.

Then yesterday, a couple of miles ahead of me I saw a plane pulling up over the horizon, making a sharp turn and diving back down below my vision.   I tried to figure out what his next few paths would be and I found a place to pull off the side of the road and got my camera set up.

I missed the first pass he did because my lens and view finder were all fogged up.  I got a few shots but they were foggy and you couldn’t tell what the picture was of.

I guessed pretty good because by the time he did his second pass I had the lens cleaned off and he flew over me just to my right.  I thought for a moment he was going to hit those grain bins but it was an optical illusion apparently. 🙂

Then I lost sight of him again and the next time I saw him he was on my left side.  There were enough trees, buildings and corn that kept me from following his flight path.  So I really couldn’t anticipate where he would pop up.

I had the D3S set on burst mode and it has a huge buffer capacity so I just let it rip when I heard his engine and then tried to find him in my view finder.

This is my favorite image of the bunch.  No I didn’t add the clouds or the blue sky.  That is the way it looked in the view finder.  Jeanne asked me the same question.  Apparently she’s seen enough of my Photoshop work to question a nice picture I try to show. 🙂

No tricks on any of these.  Just a little sharpening and color balancing.  I was dripping wet by the time I got back in my car and got the AC going again.  Yes I was late for work as is my custom of late.  😦

Thanks for stopping by.  Another hot one in store for us today.  Hopefully there will be a break in the near future.  Enjoy your day and be careful.