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Tripreport SXM 04.-12.11.2007 (Attention, many pictures!!!)
Hi,
first of all I would like to introduce myself, īcause itīs my first post in this forum.
My name is Torsten and I live near Cologne (CGN), Germany, 30 years old. I started spotting a few years ago but with poor equipment. In May I went to SXM the first time and there I was infected with the "spotting fever", so I bought an EOS 350D (RebelXT) and started spotting with a DSLR.
As the SXM trip in May was so amazing, I decided to go there again.
Now I returned from SXM and guess, it was so awesome, just unbelievable.
Now Iīm not sure, if this one is the right thread for the trip-report, but I thought that it wouldnīt be correct to place it in the "Flight-review forum". If it should be placed there, please move it to this forum.
It was not an only spotting-tour, cause I was there with my girlfriend, but altough I made a lot of shots. I donīt know how to select them, I made quite a few, but here are some of them (round about 50).
I had some trouble on my trip to SXM due to the cabin strike of the AF staff end of October. As I work for Lufthansa I only had standby tickets, 3 days before our planned trip AF cancelled one of its SXM-rotations, so that the flights were heavily overbooked. Normally we wanted to fly on November, 1st, but we were unlucky, the flight was totally full. We returned to Germany and tried it next on the 3rd, but this flight was also full. On the 4th we were be able to get on the flight.
We stayed at the "La Terrasse" hotel which is directly beside the runway with a lovely pool and terrasse, but the light conditions were not so good for taking shots out of the terrasse, as the sunset is very early in November so that you only could take backlit-shots from there or you had to wait for the turn of the departing planes for lining up RWY09.
But taking the pictures from the Sunset Beach Bar is much better!!!
Well, talked enough, here are the shots, hope you likeīem....
At CDG I only made some shots through a window of Cafe Brioche Doree, the best one was this MD-11 of TAM. Spotting seems to be permitted in CDG, I didnīt know that. But the weather in CDG was luckily not that good for taking good shots, so that it didnīt mind.
Here are lots of Air France planes including both A320s, which are based in the caribbean region (Guadeloupe and Miami) which serve SXM five days a week
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Small bird meets big bird
Blast-Action at Maho Bay
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[photoid=6110980]
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And the other heavy one coming in from Orly
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a panning try
Now the US-division
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[photoid=6111725]
old livery mixed with a new nose and a waving First Officer
[photoid=6111726]
the lowest jet approach of the week
[photoid=6110988]
[photoid=6111727]
KLM765 arriving at night (it was the first try of a nightexposure, but without a tripod. I placed the camera on a table at the Sunset beach bar, fixed it with a package of cigarettes and hold it)
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and some small planes (80% of the traffic are some of these small props)
The crew tried to blow away some tourists
first of all I would like to introduce myself, īcause itīs my first post in this forum.
My name is Torsten and I live near Cologne (CGN), Germany, 30 years old. I started spotting a few years ago but with poor equipment. In May I went to SXM the first time and there I was infected with the "spotting fever", so I bought an EOS 350D (RebelXT) and started spotting with a DSLR.
As the SXM trip in May was so amazing, I decided to go there again.
Now I returned from SXM and guess, it was so awesome, just unbelievable.
Now Iīm not sure, if this one is the right thread for the trip-report, but I thought that it wouldnīt be correct to place it in the "Flight-review forum". If it should be placed there, please move it to this forum.
It was not an only spotting-tour, cause I was there with my girlfriend, but altough I made a lot of shots. I donīt know how to select them, I made quite a few, but here are some of them (round about 50).
I had some trouble on my trip to SXM due to the cabin strike of the AF staff end of October. As I work for Lufthansa I only had standby tickets, 3 days before our planned trip AF cancelled one of its SXM-rotations, so that the flights were heavily overbooked. Normally we wanted to fly on November, 1st, but we were unlucky, the flight was totally full. We returned to Germany and tried it next on the 3rd, but this flight was also full. On the 4th we were be able to get on the flight.
We stayed at the "La Terrasse" hotel which is directly beside the runway with a lovely pool and terrasse, but the light conditions were not so good for taking shots out of the terrasse, as the sunset is very early in November so that you only could take backlit-shots from there or you had to wait for the turn of the departing planes for lining up RWY09.
But taking the pictures from the Sunset Beach Bar is much better!!!
Well, talked enough, here are the shots, hope you likeīem....
At CDG I only made some shots through a window of Cafe Brioche Doree, the best one was this MD-11 of TAM. Spotting seems to be permitted in CDG, I didnīt know that. But the weather in CDG was luckily not that good for taking good shots, so that it didnīt mind.
Here are lots of Air France planes including both A320s, which are based in the caribbean region (Guadeloupe and Miami) which serve SXM five days a week
[photoid=6110975]
[photoid=6110974]
[photoid=6110976]
[photoid=6111722]
Small bird meets big bird
Blast-Action at Maho Bay
[photoid=6111066]
[photoid=6110980]
[photoid=6110984]
And the other heavy one coming in from Orly
[photoid=6110985]
a panning try
Now the US-division
[photoid=6111743]
[photoid=6111725]
old livery mixed with a new nose and a waving First Officer
[photoid=6111726]
the lowest jet approach of the week
[photoid=6110988]
[photoid=6111727]
KLM765 arriving at night (it was the first try of a nightexposure, but without a tripod. I placed the camera on a table at the Sunset beach bar, fixed it with a package of cigarettes and hold it)
[photoid=6111737]
and some small planes (80% of the traffic are some of these small props)
The crew tried to blow away some tourists
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