The Blades Aerobatics Team

I popped in to the Farnborough 2010 Airshow today, it was great to see various mean looking machines from the USAF, RAF and others. The Vulcan XH558, F-22 Raptor and the enormous A380 were impressive, but for me the stars of the show were The Blades from Northamptonshire. These guys are definitely the best aerobatics team I’ve seen, they gave us a breathtaking show of unbelievable precision and finesse.

I took some photographs of the display which you can check out here.

Jack Daniel’s Photographer

If you’ve been in and around the London Underground then you surely must’ve noticed the Jack Daniels billboards that have been hanging around for the last year or so. They’re usually in black and white, and are usally showing us some wrinkley old chap smiling at us on top of an old 40 gallon whiskey barrel. The photographer behind these is Mark Tucker – head off to his website for a sample of his great work, there’s even a Jack Daniels section for more from the series.

PS: My only bit of criticisim is not aimed at Mark Tucker as a photographer, but as a web designer. He used to have a lovely HTML website with huge archives, lots of content and personal texts, before moving to the current Flashy version. This “Flashing up” is in fact a popular trend amongst many photographers, who are told that they need to display only their best dozen or so photos in the most “professional” manner possible, and forget the rest. You want clients to see only your pretty side, the logic goes. However, this annoys me as hell since I can’t dwell further into somebody’s work, so please stop it! Think of your fans as well, not just your clients. Most clients probably started as fans anyway.