During my recent 2 month stay in the Renaissance hotel at Heathrow, I made sure that I had a room with a view every week. And not a bad view it was. Some 2800 pictures later.....
It wasn't as easy as it would appear. The room windows wouldn't open. although the glass was fairly clean. There were light posts and a couple of trees in the way, so capturing that puff of smoke on touchdown as in the last photo here proved to be few and far between with the 380, with runways alternating and me being able to see just one landing a day. I also got some good takeoff shots from another part of the airport, but that's another post sometime.
If anybody has the inclination, the Renaissance does spotters packages for about £105 a night. Better rooms - one floor up and so no lamp posts or trees in the way, plus other facilities.
Taken with Canon 5D and Sigma 80-400 OS
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Yes, it's a Concorde in the background. G-BOAB
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It wasn't as easy as it would appear. The room windows wouldn't open. although the glass was fairly clean. There were light posts and a couple of trees in the way, so capturing that puff of smoke on touchdown as in the last photo here proved to be few and far between with the 380, with runways alternating and me being able to see just one landing a day. I also got some good takeoff shots from another part of the airport, but that's another post sometime.
If anybody has the inclination, the Renaissance does spotters packages for about £105 a night. Better rooms - one floor up and so no lamp posts or trees in the way, plus other facilities.
Taken with Canon 5D and Sigma 80-400 OS
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Yes, it's a Concorde in the background. G-BOAB
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