Rotorheads Calendar September 2010

[John Eacott]

Greg McNair of AerialSouth.com (http://www.aerialsouth.com/) sent me this excellent photo of a Bell 407 from Rotor Wing Incorporated (http://www.rotorwinginc.com/) at Mobile Regional Airport, Mobile Alabama, which he took after a video shoot back on the 18th August. Greg is a professional photographer from Birmingham, AL, and took the photo on a Canon EOS 5D at 1/1000 sec at f/4.0 ISO 50: as it is such a high resolution image I have changed the image size to 1920 x 1200 for widescreen, and 1360 x 1088 for standard screen. The file sizes are now 1.9mb and 1.3mb, so download will take a bit longer: if the preference is for this size in future, I can make this the default.

Many thanks to Greg and Rotor Wing for a stunning shot :ok:

Wide screen size:
http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/4205-1/Sept%20+2010+wide+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/4202-1/Sept+2010+wide.jpg)

Standard screen size:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/4210-1/Sept%20+2010+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/4207-1/Sept%20+2010.jpg)





As always, for Windows users click on the thumbnail to open a higher resolution full picture, and then right click to select “Set as Background”. Mac users should select the background via System Preferences.

[Pekka]

The dream machine:ok: excellent!

[rotorrookie]

what a beauty :ok: great picture,

[aerialsouth]

I'm just honoroed you thought it was worthy of the calendar John, thank you. And it was actually shot with a 5d Mk2, but who's counting, right? Glad you guys like the pic. Enjoy! And if you care to see it, I put together a little video for the benefit of the PIC. I didn't intend to document the day in a final video like this, so nothing was framed as such. Pardon the crappy cockpit video--it's really all about the sound of those rotors that you get to hear towards the end.

407 Aerial Video shoot on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/14590883)

Greg