Now that I'm back to shooting a photo every day (as of the end of September), I need to find time to post them every day, or at least a lot more often than I have been. However I fear that I haven't had a lot of time to PBase recently. Thankfully it's been "good, productive" busy, not "annoyingly time wasting busy" for once. I also have a few galleries still to catch up on and also a few messages to reply to; apologies for not doing so yet but I will get there as soon as I can.

I had been given a joyride over the Illawarra as a present. Not in this, I hasten to add, though it's operated by the same company. No, my flight was in a Beechcraft Bonanza. I did get a few OK photos but the combination of having to use the 28-135 lens (which, the more I use, the less I like) and shooting through perspex will never give great results. Consequently today's PAD is a shot that I took before we left the ground.

Featured is the Lilly Warra, 1943 Boeing PT-17 Stearman. Lilly was originally a training aircraft for the Tuskegee Airmen, being sold as surplus in 1944. After a bit of commercial work (I know not how long a time) she was left to rot before being discovered by an American Airlines pilot and restored. Shortly after the restoration she was bought by an outfit down here and began the next phase of her life as a joyflight aircraft.

I also need to find the time to get back to the Photoshop training videos. I need more tricks in my bag than mono, sepia and selective colouring.