Lets go for a spin Phil..........you fly it. LOL

~opens up wallet~

Hey mista, I need to get to 3rd & Washington...how much?? 8~P

Sweet glance friend!!

awesome phil...ive been following this one for a while these days, i think the blended wing technology has such a grace to it, and lets hope it comes to fruition in the not so distant...

'K ... dumb question time, and this is coming from someone with less than perfect vision ...

First, for reference sake ... have a look here, another image of this same plane ... perhaps the same image?

Now, at first glance ... even some time back, when I took a peek ... my first thought was ... 'hmm, I might have been tempted to use the warp/perspective function of CS to 'flatten' the left wing out a tad'. (Left wing ... from the viewing perspective.)

Just seemed to be too ... lol, 'k ... Ima gonna get technical here ... too 'curvy'. :oP

Kidding aside, any credence to my perception and/or thoughts?

Annnnnd that drivel aside ... this is a gorgeous shot. Love the detail in the ground. Colours et al.

+fav for me.

This is a serious looking bird.

yes - it's the same shot. Im not sure what you mean though by flattening the wing off - I'd guess the extra 'curve' is an optical issue as the plane isn't flush to the viewing angle.

Ok, took a closer and unencumbered view (sleep attached this time) of the two in a side by side comparison ... think I understand what I was 'seeing' when I made the above comments.

Your(?) crop of the shot, accentuates the 'curve' that I was seeing. The right wings' tip, literally extends visually to the upper right corner ... and either consciously or subconsciously, I was doing the same with the left wings' tip.

That make sense?

What I was referring to in 'flattening' the left wing out, would have been to pull the left wing down somewhat, by warping the perspective ... some. Realizing that it would have thrown off the symmetry of the plane out ... a tad ... but, prevented my eye from following and by extension, adding to the optical issue that you make mention of.

And now you have me curious on another matter ... I am dangerously assuming that you did no post work on this then ... or, if so ... very minor at best ... since you make no mention of having done so in your narrative.

There looks like some colour adjustment was done, in particular the lights appear more vivid ... but, I am not sure if that is simply the result of having only the smaller image to compare it to.

Now then, would you have changed anything? Just curious.

yes - it had a quick makeover in the usual style of my NASA posts i.e. colour and contrast enhancement with DFT 55mm filter sets and NoiseNinja which also helped to knock out some of the originals USM sharpening artefacts on the NASA archive shot.

Very impressive aircraft ! Nice work you've done on this picture, as usual ;)

Amazing craft. I really like the natural background too... it's hard to beleive they would just park something like this in a dried up mud puddle... hope they don't get flash flooding wround there!

Very interesting pic.. I love the dryed up lakebed nice contrast

My new desktop pic (for now). I agree w/ previous posters ... awesome contrast of the craggy ground to the graceful lines of the plane. Great shot!