Welcome to Brian A. Marshall's
WARBIRDfotoGALLERY

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SITE LAST UPDATED - 8th April 2012
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Aircraft in this gallery are categorised by markings carried
and not country of manufacture. 

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WARBIRDfotoGALLERY is a compilation of photographs that I have taken over the last six years, since buying my first DSLR camera, the majority of which have already been published on numerous aviation related forums. This generally means that after a very short period of time, they drop out of sight and sit on a server somewhere gathering an electronic version of dust as they are rarely looked at again. In this Gallery they are brought together in one place for the first time and will remain on view for those who didn't catch them the first time around. I'll be occasionally trawling through my hard drives searching out appropriate aircraft and unusual angles so the Gallery will be slowly updated. Why Warbirds?. Having lived and worked around modern military aircraft all my life, I much prefer Warbirds to noisy fast jets. The majority of photographs were taken at Duxford with a smattering from Old Warden, Little Gransden and Sywell thrown in as well.

Brian A. Marshall.
                    A DEFINITION OF WARBIRD
There is no official definition of the term Warbird but the core meaning is generally believed to include any WWII era front line military combat aircraft that is now owned or operated by a civilian or civilian organisation. It does not generally include civilian aircraft painted up to represent a military machine although civilian ‘off the shelf’ aircraft have and still are being used by the military. Although the term was originally applied to World War II piston driven aircraft, these days it tends to include jets, replicas and reproductions and any retired military aircraft on a civilian register that was designed to serve or had a significant contribution to the armed forces in any capacity.
                                 CAMERA EQUIPMENT USED  
My first DSLR camera was a Sony Alpha A100 and I have remained with Sony ever since. The cameras I now use are either a Sony Alpha A580 or the new Sony SLT-A35. The lens I use depends on what I’m photographing at the time and range from the Sony 10-18mm wide angle, Sony 16-80mm zoom, Sigma 18-200mm zoom for interior and static shots and the Sony 70-300mm G SSM and the Sony 70-400mm G SSM zoom lens for flying shots. I started shooting in Jpeg and then moved to RAW  but with the new Sony sensors and associated processing engines and in-camera software, I'm now back using Jpeg's as there is very little noticeable difference between the two formats in the finished processed image.
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All photographs/images contained within 'WARBIRDfotoGALLERY' are the exclusive property of  Brian A Marshall and are marked as such with ©BRIAN A MARSHALL including extra copyright information embedded into the 'exif info'. All photographs/images in this gallery are protected against copying and unlawful use without permission under the United Kingdom Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1998, including the European Union 2001/29/EC InfoSoc Directive and International Copyright Laws and Treaties. These laws impose substantial penalties for infringement of copyright material.