Guys,

Great shots all around.

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AWESOME shot!! My favorite one!!!

Very nice pics! I hoped to see the plane flying over my home in cruising altitude (normally most of the EK-flights to JFK take this route), but it used a way 100 km east from here......

Looking at the pictures I remember the first visit of the A380 at DUS/EDDL - the only difference that at DUS probably much more people were waiting (about 100.000)! This pic (not from me) shows a small part of the crowd: Klick

PS: Do I understand it right, that the regular service to JFK will start at 01.10.2008?

That is correct, on EK201/202 arriving at 14:15 and leaving at 23:30.

http://marraphotography.zenfolio.com/p905435269/

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Mike

Good stuff Mike! Was nice meeting you!

Thanks Phil. Nice meeting all of you.

Kenny, what are we going to do with you...

I guess that was one advantage of being on the end of the Mounds

THX
Paul

Stuart - prepare to incur the wrath of Kenny LMAO!!! That's a great edit

It was definitely an awesome day all around. Thanks to everyone for bringing lots of laughs and definitely to Phil for the drinks and excellent guidance on the timing for the mounds. Since I'm in Phoenix now, I won't get to edit any of my shots until at least next weekend, bummer...

Wow, Kenny, you just don't have any luck at all, do you?

Great shots all

I don't think this has been mentioned, but I think kudos are due to Jetphotos.net. I uploaded two different shots to Jetphotos.net and Airliners.net shortly after arriving home last night; based on the individual sites' rules I didn't think the A380 NYC visit merited being a "hot" item (despite my own personal views on the matter), and didn't mark the photos as hot on either site. This morning, I had an e-mail from Jetphotos, unfortunately a rejection for "contrast". I was first surprised that the photo was screened as priority even though I hadn't marked it as such, but obviously disappointed in the rejection. I then re-uploaded another image, the same one I submitted to Airliners, feeling sure this time it wouldn't be a hot item since quite a few others had their shots accepted by that time. A few hours later I checked back - and lo and behold, they made another pass through the upload queue and accepted my shot. I am impressed.

I'm normally an Airliners.net kind of guy, but situations like this infuriate me. All of our JFK A380 shots will sit in the A.net queue for the next two weeks while the rest of the world quietly forgets about the event. This costs both us and the site hits, in a big way. Meanwhile, Jetphotos reaps the rewards. I'm thinking more and more my loyalties are misplaced.

Yea thats why I didn't other to add any shots to JP cause I figured they would just reject them for "Invalid Hot". Not to mention the shots frmo the day were just bad because of the clouds.


Senga

great shots so far, guys!!!

- jMay