The Pate Transportation museum, located a few miles south of Fort Worth. The aircraft are in a worsening state of disrepair. Unfortunately, the museum has recently closed due to lack of funding. It was run by volunteers for a while, and I did get there to see some of the car collection a few months back. The cars are all indoors and in good condition. I assume the planes will either be taken by other museums or continue to deteriorate. I didn't have much choice of perspectives shooting from the fence, and the weather didn't cooperate with me either. I think for the limitations I had, I did well with this, but I would be surprised if this does any better than a mid-pack finish. For anyone interested, here is an article discussing the closure.
Anticipated critiques:
-Overprocessed
-Strange angle
-Expect some comments about the poor condition the aircraft are in.
Post-challenge notes:
This one teased me by staying slightly over a 6 for about half the challenge and then dropped in the last day. Can't complain as it still did way better than I had anticipated. This wasn't a 6+ entry.
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Depressing, but very good photo. These are more victims of a country losing it's roots as the new generations disconnect with the past.
I hope that the planes find homes before they disintegrate. It's hard to move a big plane like these if they aren't airworthy.
Here's my comments (because you put the CW in the title)
If I was voting on this challenge, I would have given you a 6. I like your composition especially how you've framed the flying boat with the foreground aircraft. My one minor issue is that I feel you could have cropped off the right hand edge slightly to loose the wing-root so that distraction was removed.
Looks almost like an HDR shot (or maybe some topaz). I like the textures it leaves on the planes themselves. Gread DOF too, good sharpness on all the important stuff in this shot.
I like the PP on this, gives it a gritty feel...I also like the way the tail of the plane in the foreground frames the plane in the background. Wish I had thought about this idea because we live very close to a airbase that has a similar static display. Well done, I'm just guessing this is Yo_Spiff.
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