Non-qualifying

Our aero club had the pleasure of receiving an invitation to the Museum Victoria storage facility on 25 July. It was to view the original Duigan biplane that they now own.

The Duigan biplane was the first Australian designed and built aircraft to fly, at a place called Mia Mia in country Victoria.

The viewing was timed to coincide with the flight's centenary, 1910 - 2010.

I had intended to enter this in the comp - then realised that the date was out of range!

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c&c welcomed.

Ineresting history, but I'm afraid the image doesn't really work for me iBerg. It's all a bit confusing with all those lines everywhere, and the sepia isn't really floating my boat either.

Don't feel too bad , I live near Duxford air museum which has quite a few old aircraft that look similar to this one (i.e. bicycles with wings), and in half a dozen visits I have still yet to take a single decent photo of one. They are just too spindly without any substance to them!

Your treatment lends the picture a lovely vintage feel, i-Berg, the delicate hue suits the fragile structure very well.

It seems to me that the light lends an ethereal quality, entirely in keeping with a 'string and timber' flying machine. Ideally, I think it would be even better if the top right eucalyptus was cloned out, but it is still an attractively unusual image.

This is a great photo, i-berg. The composition of this subject makes for an interesting image and i'm drawn in by it. In fact, it is a very nice composition and study of this kind of subject.
I like your focus on the geometry of it and the angles of all those struts and strings, it has depth. The background is nicely abstract, too.
I can see this image up on a wall, nicely framed an' all.

I thought that the original looked a little flat, yellow and muddy, so I had a go at it myself...



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Again, this is a beautiful image, I love it.

Great shot, i-Berg! I love all the diagonals and my eye is really drawn to the top wheel (or whatever it's called :blush to the top right of the centre. I like the sepia tones also - Pauly's version is good too, but I think he's added a little bit of sharpening as well, which I normally like, but in this case I prefer the softer lines and colours in your picture.

Lidy, no sharpening was added at all. I just adjusted the bright areas and shadows slightly.

Thanks Paul. Sorry I got it wrong. Just shows what a slight change in colour/highlights/shadows does to the eye (well, mine anway :wink.

Thank you to everyone - Paul, I appreciate you going the extra yards with this. The flat / yellow / muddy was my poor attempt to 'age' the image, using LR 3. Yours is a better image.

Speaking of walls Alun - the eucalypt is a painting on the back wall of the storage facility - it was the one area where the background did not intrude on the subject in a way that was unacceptable.

Lidy - I dread to say, but I believe that 'wheel thing' is actually the pilot's control for the ailerons - a bit like steering wheels for cars I suppose... This Duigan aircraft design did not use wing-warping for roll control, BTW - it actually had ailerons.

And Tim - I never feel bad about c&c - promise!