Airscene Aviation Photographer of the Year 2008


Tim Knifton (Newport) UK	Dave Trevor (Northwich) UK	Alan Torrance (Marlow) UK
004	039	044

James Murray (Balloch) UK	Ken Brannen (Reading) UK	Andrew Wickens (Ringmer) UK
009	045	005

Paul Heasman (Holywell) UK	Neil Darby (Tilehurst) UK	Peter Thompson (Wantage) UK
018	010	048

Dean Feltimo (Maidenhead) UK	Malcolm Casson (Barrow in Furness) UK	Ian Schofield (London) UK
011	022	025

Tom Hill (Sleaford) UK	Toby Egan (Reading) UK	Simon Thomas (Newark) UK
040	049	035

Ian Hews (Worthing) UK	Adrian Glazzard (Woking) UK	Andrea Johnson (Sedgefield) UK
012	013	033

Robert Scott (Ipswich) UK	Ivan Harris (Clacton on Sea) UK	Gergely Grosz (Paks) Hungary
030	017	026

Judge	12 points	11 points	10 points	9 points	8 points	7 points	6 points	5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Anne Millbrooke (Author)	011	010	022	044	017	018	030	013	005	026	025	035
Lee Proctor (Togsprint)	011	005	026	017	022	039	035	010	040	012	013	025
Helen Atkinson (Snapperstuff)	011	022	010	026	005	033	044	025	040	009	030	045

Anne Millbrooke's comments:

011 - Precision control: "Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to Heaven." — Shakespeare, "King Henry VI"

010 - Follow the leader: "Don't catch me or crush me, Or break my wing; Don't snatch me or brush me In my glad fling, For I would sing — Would fly and sing!" — Alice Hunt Bartlett, "In Flight"

022 - Refueling helicopters: Precision and poetry in motion

044 - Winging it: "Thy godlike wings / Cleft windy space / Above the ships of kings" — Hervey Allen, "The Wingless Victory"

017 - Dance of the planes: "Whisper into a wind that sings / Now that all skies are adrone with wings." — William Rose Benét, "Kittyhawk"

018 - Ground control: "Files store the newly printed designs. / Manuals are written to instruct the rules. / Translators work on electronic codes. / On the
ground, in the flesh, / The signal is the thing." — James Schevill, "The Game-Master Explains the Rules of the Game for Bombings"

030 - Alot of plane under control. with control: "Distance is swept by the smooth / Rotations of power, its staring feelers multiplying our eyes for
us" — Alan Ross, "Radar"

013 - Pilot at the controls: "For lo! I see perfected rise / The vision of my boyish eyes / The messenger of upper skies. / Avitor!" — Bret Harte, "Avitor"

005 - Wingwalkers: "There is that in the whine of the wires, / There is that in the throb and the roar, / Which will fill you with strange desires …" — Louis Leon De Jean, "The Flying Fever"

026 - Eight in formation: "I have felt to soar in freedom and in the fullness of power, joy, volition." — Walt Whitman, "To Soar in Freedom and
Fullness of Power"

025 - The controls: "… My mind is a panel / Crowded with instruments and toggle switches, / A cockpit of fidgeting needles and dials." — Louise Daniel
Brodsky, "My Flying Machine"

035 - Control of old: "As we saw the bastions of bird and cloud / By the vision of man invaded." — Percy MacKaye, "The Air Voyage Up the Hudson"