Many of you are familiar with the evolution of my photography since this site was created. I originally started taking close-up high focus pictures on a white shelf with as many bright lights as I could get to help improve the shutter speed with a large aperture. Looking for a more life like display I made a taxiway display on a 2' x 3' board with a turnoff and grass on both sides. Taxiway display I would position the display near a sunny window to get the most life like light and shoot from there.

What I've been working lately is a new display to shoot pictures on, and while I'm not quite done with it, it's complete enough for me to snap a couple of shots to post what I'm working on and what I hope to be shooting my future purchases on along with about a dozen I haven't shot yet! It's a 3' x 4' board displaying the end of a runway, two taxiways, and a holding area. There is quite a bit of striping I need to finish in the green shoulder areas, as well as quite a few other details, like signs, threshold markings, runway white outlined in black, and hopefully some end of the runway light posts.

Here are some pictures so far:

I've seen a lot of neat pictures on a.net of American jets crossing the piano keys and that was really the inspiration for this display. I wanted the ability to capture that on bare metal airliners.

Inflight200 United 747-400 pulling onto 28L, picture also shows hold line, a taxiway, and the grass ditch area between the runway and taxiway.

Same 747 holding for 28L, the red box will have 28L-10R on it as is on taxiways at the hold line.

United 747 holding, American Veteran's 767 lining up for departure

American 737 pulling up to the hold line, Delta L-1011 ready for takeoff

Please let me know what you think, what I could add, or change. I really want to get this looking great so I can take some great shots on it.