The Red Bull Air Races are taking place this weekend 13-14 June on the Detroit River between
Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. We went down on a beautiful sunny Friday to
watch the planes practicing. The river was a wonderful shade of turquoise and there
was great atmosphere and lots of excitement in the city as the Detroit Redwings were
playing game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals in the evening – sadly they lost…
I was pleased to be able to capture this fast moving plane as it flew through
one of the gates on the course. I particularly wanted to capture it in Portrait mode,
which was quite a challenge, handholding the big camera. Thank you Sayer for letting
me use his 1D when the battery on my 40D started to die!
I hope you don’t find the background distracting, I quite like the way it shows just
how close to the city the planes are flying.
For more about the races, and some amazing video footage click on this link:
Red Bull Air Races