Over the past few days, I’ve started the daunting task of organizing my planespotting photos. After consolidating all my files, directories, sub directories, flash drives, external drives, etc, etc, I’ve come to realize that I have 6200 photos. The next step is to sort by Airline, then aircraft type, then tail number, then location and date of sighting and ultimately come up with an index of my photos. I have to thank digital photography. This would not have been possible 15-20 years ago with traditional film. To have the collection that I have today, it would have taken me approximately 172 rolls of film. Factor in film development costs, planespotting would have cost me a fortune. Perhaps one day I’ll set up a website that will be a gallery of all my photos, like my own Airliners.net or Planespotters.com. But I digress.
My first project was to sort through and organize my 2000+ Lufthansa photos. I’m no where near done with their final sort, but I did scan through all of them and “set aside” some of my favorites that I’ve included here. Being that 95% of my travel either takes me to or through Germany, it’s easy to see why there are so many LH pictures. Not all of them are perfect (actually no photo can ever be perfect!), but I think I’ve done a fairly reasonable job in capturing some decent shots of some great aircraft.
An A340 arrives in Los Angeles in the late afternoon
A 747-400 leaves Los Angeles bound for Frankfurt
A 747 parked in Frankfurt
Lufthansa's 747's usually dominate Frankfurt's landscape
A 747-400 leaves LAX and heads to Frankfurt - Coming soon the 747-8i!
The beautiful 747-400 continues climbing out from Los Angeles
An A380 lands in Houston (IAH) after a thunderstorm
The same A380 taxis to her gate at Houston
A 747 arrives in Frankfurt on an overcast morning
An Airbus A321 gets ready to taxi to a Frankfurt runway
An A330 arrives in Frankfurt (this specific plane once hit a United Express Jet and flew without one of her winglets!)
Airbus A321 arriving in Frankfurt
This A320 is arriving in Istanbul and would take us to Munich
This A319 would take us from London to Frankfurt
An A340 approaches her gate in Frankfurt
Another 747-400 in Frankfurt
Up close to an A330 in Frankfurt
An A330 in Frankfurt right before we boarded and flew to Detroit
Another A340 taxis for take off in Frankfurt
An A380 parked in her hangar in Frankfurt
An A380 arriving in Frankfurt
An A321 heads for the runway in Frankfurt
An A380 pushes back from her gate in Frankfurt
A beautiful Retro Livery
Up close to an A340's starboard engines.
An A380 at her gate in Frankfurt
An A320 arriving at Munich
The same A320 in Munich
Parked in a hangar in Munich
Routine engine service in a spotless Munich Technic Hangar
Beneath the belly of a San Francisco bound A340
An A340 taxis to the runway at Munich
Up close to an A340's tail at Munich
An A340 at her gate in Munich
A happy passenger from Dusseldorf to Chicago
Right after deplaning in Frankfurt (from London)
The 747-8i is pushed back, ready for her inaugural flight
Lufthansa's New 747-8i sets to leave on her inaugural flight
The 747-8i seconds before taking off for Washington DC
One of Lufthansa Cargo's MD11s parked in Frankfurt
An A340 parked at her gate in Munich
The 747-8i in Washington DC a few minutes after I arrived. A fitting gate number!!
The 747-8i parked at her gate in Washington DC (IAD)
wow I did not know that dogs can travel without cages in business class!
it was an “assistance” dog, and he enjoyed every minute! well behaved animal. never knew he was on board until I got up to go to lav
Great pictures!!!