Seaplanes

[BobDDuck]

My wife and I recently spent a few days in Seattle and Victoria, BC. Lots of seaplane ops going on. Here are a few of the shots I grabbed. I have some more (better ones I think) but I am waiting to see if A.net is going to reject those like everything else I send to them.

Kenmore Air coming into Friday Harbor

Kenmore Air in Friday Harbor

Seaplane plane coming out of Westcott Harbor

Harbor Air in Victoria, BC

Westcoast Air taxiing out in Victoria

Kind of a bad registration...

 

[Dan208B]

Great pictures! Best part of the world. I quit trying to submit photos to A.net because they're so stuck up haha.

 

[ASpilot2be]

Great pictures!

 

[N519AT]

A.net is such an old boys club. Once you have a couple hundred pictures they approve anything you submit. Getting that first one though, is a bitch because they'll always say that your photo "lacks motiv". I gave up a long time ago.

 

[derg]

A.net is such an old boys club. Once you have a couple hundred pictures they approve anything you submit. Getting that first one though, is a bitch because they'll always say that your photo "lacks motiv". I gave up a long time ago.

SHOPPED!

 

[rframe]

That's cool, what are all those seaplanes doing? Taxi/shuttle? Scenic flights?

 

[1B9Pilot]

rframe West Coast Air/Harbor Air operate regularly scheduled flights as well as scenic flights

Great shots BobDDuck! We went out there in 2009 and our hotel was right near Lake Union so we saw plenty of seaplanes. We also loved Victoria and the whole downtown area!

 

[JordanD]

I gave up on a.net and the similar sites a while ago, they just took the fun out of the hobby. Got myself a Flickr Pro account and was a lot happier. It's a little bit harder to get as many views but oh well.

 

[gotWXdagain]

Great Pics! I used to be a photo screener for Jp.net but after two years of it I got burned out because some of the "rules" were a bit assinine/not conducive to good photographic technique. That being said, at least we weren't a.net, which I stopped uploading to entirely and had them delete my pictures after the "terms of use" fiasco in 2008.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Was just at the Flying Beaver on Friday and took some photos. Sadly I only had my iPhone camera so the pics weren't great. Neat operation!!

 

[cmill]

Great pictures, really makes me remember how much i miss flying floats.

 

[Seggy]

That being said, at least we weren't a.net, which I stopped uploading to entirely and had them delete my pictures after the "terms of use" fiasco in 2008.

What was that about?

 

[gotWXdagain]

What was that about?

The company that had taken ownership of the website, the same company that owned MySpace, tried to sneak into the terms of service that they had unlimited rights to photographer's uploads.

 

[BobDDuck]

Well, now that anet rejected the rest of them (not centered, too soft, too grainy etc), here they are.

 

[Roger Roger]

A.net is a circlejerk populated by a bunch of people who can't appreciate a picture of anything other than the perfect side-on profile of an airliner. Nice pics bob, thanks for sharing.

 

[Muff3n]

Awesome pictures man! That Kenmore Air beaver is one sweet looking airplane.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

A.net is such an old boys club. Once you have a couple hundred pictures they approve anything you submit. Getting that first one though, is a bitch because they'll always say that your photo "lacks motiv". I gave up a long time ago.

No doubt. I had some air to air airship shots last summer from the airship race on the Hudson. Even some pictures with the Statue in them, and cropped as such, and they wanted nothing to do with them.

 

[GX]

Yessir... My B1 Bone pics got rejected. And the last pictures of SuSu shot were rejected. And the pics of Meagan Varley flying her Tomcat to DM to be retired got rejected... Don't feel badly. We can appreciate a great photo here, and these are great photos! Well done!

 

[Jellis]

Great pics!