Happy Friday!

Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, a plane… Well for me, it really doesn’t  matter.  If it can fly I want to photograph it.

On my way home last evening I caught a glimpse of something large flying low close to the horizon.  So naturally I found a place to turn around and investigate.  This guy was spraying a bean field that was some distance from the highway.

So I parked on a gravel road well off the highway and grabbed my 80 – 400 mm lens.  This lens has become my favorite go to lens.  It isn’t perfect for every type of shot but it gives me enough range and versatility that I can shoot a variety of subjects and scenes so I can capture the action or moment.

Now as the image above shows I was relatively far from the action and that was okay with me.  I didn’t want to be breathing the spray and I had a good focal range with my lens.

What I didn’t expect was for him to make two passes directly over me.  No spray of course but it was obvious that he could see me standing there with a long lens and so he made a couple of photographic passes for me, which I really appreciated.

In fact on the shot above I had to zoom back in to only a 100 mm to get the entire plane in the frame.  I could feel the vibration of that big radial motor as he flew over me.

I watched him for about 20 minutes and there was no other reason that I could see why he would fly all the way over to me and so low other than to give me a nice shot.  🙂

That’s it for today.  Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Enjoy your day and be careful.