Not sure if Heliport will allow this but here goes. Since we have had a cool mix of images on the rotorheads at work thread I thought it would be a great idea to run a PPrune Photo Competition. This is what I am going to offer as a prize.

FIRST PRIZE
1. A Two year complimentary subscription to Heli Ops.

2. A copy of the video The Last Great Adventure showing the history of live deer capture in NZ by helicopter. An awesome video with plenty of "holy !!!!e" action in it.

3. A copy of the award winning book called the Chopper Boys, a pictorial history of animal capture in New Zealand. Combines two books called the Chopper Boys and the Helicopter Hunters.

4. Inclusion of the winning image in the 2005 Helicopters at Work calendar, plus 20 copies to give to your mates.


2ND PRIZE
1. Copy of The Last Great Adventure Video.

2. One year comp subscription to Heli Ops.


3RD PRIZE
1. One year complimentary sub to Heli Ops.



HELIPORT'S PRIZE
The image that Heliport likes the most will win a special moderators prize of a copy of the above mentioned The Chopper Boys book.



The only conditions are the images must be modern day, sorry but no oldies. And each images must show the beauty of the helicopter, either static or working.

All images must be posted to this thread and yours truly will pick the winning entry, in conjunction with Heliport.

So post away guys. Images that have been posted on the rotorheads thread are eligible but only six images will be accepted as entries by each member of Pprune so make sure you post your best ones.


Deadline for Entries 18th of August so that gives you plenty of time.


Ned.

Autorotate.

Thanks Ned.
Good idea and very generous prizes.


Heliport

Thank You for the opportunity Autorotate.

I am sure not many of us can even try and match your pics - but let's try with some more "exclusive" one's

My first one is of a Mi-24 just after she discarded her load of 80 x 80 mm rockets. On a shooting range of course...




Here we have an unusual "fly past" as it was a low speed fly past with a high nose up. Yes it might look normal but normally we fly with 8 degrees nose down at 140 to 160 kts.



Here we are in the hover with wheels up. This was the last official picture of this helicopter. I wrote her off a week later in a double engine failure.



Here we approach from the Atlantic in to land.



Hope you enjoyed them.

More later ...

Here's a few I haven't posted before Ned.

Cheers,

Hollywood

Autorotate,

Thanks for giving up such great prizes for this photo competition, but i am a little confused as to the marking criteria on the competition, is is down to the technicality of the photo, or is it just a good looking photo you are after, or does it have to reflect one of the great principle areas of photography i.e movment, colour, shade, texture etc? Do they have to be pictures we have taken ourselves, or just any old photo, scrounged from anywhere?

Please advise as i have a few i would like to post, but not knowing the criteria, it is difficult.

Thanks in advance

MD

Hello everyone.

I am hoping someone can help. I am trying to post a picture that is on my website. I have followed all the instructions in Heliport's thread about posting photos, but everytime I sent the reply, all it gives is the URL in text, not the actual picture!!!

I am starting the pull my hair out, what am I doing wrong?????

Cheers

HeliEng

Post it again and leave it.
Can't say where you're going wrong without .... seeing where you're going wrong.

Heliport

Here is HeliEng's picture


Puma working on a Flare Tip Change on a rig in the Dutch Sector.

In response to previous posts will clarify who can post what. You must have shot the photo you are entering otherwise copyright issues come into play, especially if the entry is the winning one and we go to publish it in the calendar.

The image doesnt have to be technically correct, just a great looking image showing a helicopter. Thats it. No other technical type requirements. Some of the best looking helo images are the most technically incorrect.

Hope that helps.

Ned

This was taken on Kauai and then edited in photoshop.

Here are a few pics from my flight school in NZ

H300 Sling training.



H500 Mountain training.






Taupo AD refuelling.

Here is my effort, taken at Shoreham, 9th June 2003

The beauty of the helicopter at work;

The search.


The rapid response.


reduced in size for posting
edited cause my spool chucker is u/s!

lime spreading.... my crew took this photo of me departing with a 3000 lbs bucket. the as350b3 is awesome!!

Sid:
- must be some quaint N Yorks/ Janner dialect..

And what's all that funny green and brown stuff behind Molly in those 2 lovely photos of yours?

T & B,
The lovely countryside that we love as the West Mids, or at least somewhere within an hours flying time!!

The last green and brown bits some of 'us' will see for a while, but I may post a few pics to remind them.

Thanks for picking up the spelling mistake, on a different website that would have been worth 2 days of posts

Molly sends her love

(For those who don't know Molly, look closer at WMID)

Careful you two....that looks a bit like a conversation to me..
aren't they forbidden?