Archive for July 2007
Somewhere under the rainbow……
Sunderland International Air Show 2007
A final look at the Sunderland International Air Show 2007 sees the RAF’s Red Arrow display team passing under a rainbow after a quick shower. From our perch on top of the cliffs at Whitburn, South Tyneside, we saw what many people agreed was the largest rainbow for many years in these parts. It is estimated that a million spectators watched the air show over it’s two days.
The RAF Red Arrows
Sunderland International Air Show 2007
(Day Two)
The second day of the Sunderland International Air Show was rounded off by the RAF’s Red Arrows display team performing under varied weather conditions. The skies were intermittently dark, wet, raining, or bathed in bright warm sunlight, all within minutes of each other!
The Pentax K100D received plenty of use as I clicked about 200 frames during their half hour performance, the changing scenes in the sky provided varying backdrops to their ariel skills, I hope you enjoy these pictures today. I had great difficulty in choosing five frames to show you.
The location that I and “Junior” chose was right in the heart of the action and on the edge of South Tyneside’s boundary with Sunderland, Whitburn Beach proved to be ideal, please click the map link to discover where we were.
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On a wing and a prayer
Sunderland International Air Show 2007
It was day one of the Sunderland International Air Show yesterday, it takes place just on the boundary of South Shields and South Tyneside and it’s something we cannot miss – most of the planes fly over us anyway. My ten year old son “Junior” enjoyed his first day behind the lens of my old camera and you can see his pictures in my other blog here.
We are at the Air Show again today to catch the RAF’s Red Arrows display team, so call back to see the pictures tomorrow!. As a special treat here a few more thumbnails from day one.
Harbour at night
The Groyne and harbour
Here we see the harbour in South Shields, both piers and lighthouses, as well as the old Groyne pier belonging to the Port of Tyne Authority. This is where the River Tyne flows into the North Sea and it is much of the view from the dining room of the Littlehaven Hotel that I posted about two days ago. The Groyne marked a rocky danger point for vessels entering the Tyne and many ships have been grounded here over the centuries.
Camera; Pentax K100D, lens 27mm., 8 seconds, f22, iso 200
Sea front at night
Littlehaven Beach
We have two beaches in South Shields, when I was a kid we always knew them as the little beach and the big beach. Littlehaven is the little beach, seen here late at night illuminated only by the streetlamps of Harbour Drive and the dancing lights from the Dunes ten pin bowling hall at the fairground. There’s also a little help from the moon on the right hand side.
Camera; Pentax K100D, lens 27mm., 30 seconds, f22, iso 200
South Shields Daily Photo 