Monday, September 26, 2005

Airshow highlights: Day 5 - Departures (3)

One last wave!!


taken by Caska on 26.09.05

Airshow highlights: Day 5 - Departures (2)

The Red Arrows and their support aircraft left very early at around 09:58.


taken by Caska on 26.09.05

Airshow highlights: Day 5 - Departures

Today, the majority of the aircrafts that were on display for the airshow weekend, left by around 13:00. Below, the Red Arrows and their support aircraft are ready to leave ...


taken by Caska on 26.09.05

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Airshow highlights: Day 4 - Display (2)

Today, although quite cloudy and with scattered showers of rain, it was also another day of exciting aircrafts display. My pick for the day was that of the RAF Tornado F3 below.
Also, at around 6ish, the Spitfire and Hurricane and the Red Arrows made a spectacular fly-past the World War II memorial at Floriana, right outside Valletta during the ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary since WWII.

The Maltairshow 2005 is over!


taken by Caska Sep '05

Airshow highlights: Day 4 - Display

Looking through a World War II anti-aircraft canon can be quite an experience!!!!


taken by Caska Sep '05

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Airshow highlights: Day 3 - Display (4)

A heart for someone special from your little red arrow :)


taken by Caska on 24.09.05

Airshow highlights: Day 3 - Display (3)

The picture speaks for itself :)


Red Arrows taken by Caska on 24.09.05

Airshow highlights: Day 3 - Displays (2)

The Hurricane taxiing ready to fly ... and the RAF Harrier in the background landing.


taken by Caska 24.09.05

Airshow highlights: Day 3 - Displays

The first official day of the Maltairshow kicked off at around 10:30 today with a Fire Section Defile and finished at around 17:30 after the display of the Red Arrows acrobatic team. Amongst interesting and rare aircrafts on display and also flying, there was also a re-enactment of World War II showing how life was during the war not only for soldiers and pilots, but also for women and nurses.
However, my favourite photo for today was the one below which captures two little aircraft enthusiasts asking the pilot for an autograph ... :)


photo taken by Caska on 24.09.05

Friday, September 23, 2005

Airshow highlights: Day 2 - Arrivals (2)

Although I love taking photos of aircrafts, landscapes are still my favourite theme. I couldn't possibly let the sun set and not take a snapshot of the beautiful landscape that could be seen from besides the runway at Ta' Kandja ... this closes the second day of the airshow!


taken by Caska on 23.09.05 @19.01

Airshow highlights: Day 2 - Arrivals

Finally today all the aircrafts participating in this year's Maltairshow have landed and are ready to kickstart tomorrow's display at 10am to entertain aircraft enthusiasts who are quite numerous here in Malta!

Today's highlight for me was the arrival of the Red Arrows acrobatic team which arrived in Malta in the afternoon, I think some time around 14:50. I was longing to see the Red Arrows once again in Malta! This photo taken digitally is my pick for the day. The aircrafts are forming an arrow themselves ... but what interests me most is the formation of the white smoke which resembles the letter L which is particularly symbolic to me! Could be that the Red Arrows were saluting me at that particular instant!? ;-)


UK's Red Arrows acrobatic team taken by Caska on 23.09.05

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Airshow highlights: Day 1 - Arrivals

The first aircrafts participating in this year's Malta International Airshow have landed!! After spending the whole day taking photos at Luqa and Ta' Kandja ... the main highlight of the day was the fly-past of the two UK civilian aircrafts: the Spitfire and the Hurricane. The image of these two historic planes passing over the Grand Harbour was extremely impressive ... for a split second I imagined myself in World War II!! There were many people gathered on the bastions and the Lower and Upper Barraccas awaiting to see two aircrafts ... this is the best photo of the day for me ;-)

UK Hurricane aircraft taken by Caska on 22.09.05 @18:03

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Divergence

Yesterday morning while waiting for someone to open the office at work I managed to take this beautiful scene which I named “Divergence”. The ship and the tug boat came out of the inner port together and were extremely fascinating as they diverged each to their own direction once they almost reached the tip of the breakwater … one back to the port and the other leaving the Grand Harbour.

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taken by Caska on 06.09.2005 @07:39

This diverging action brought to my mind psychology lectures and the concepts of divergence and convergence which I still remember vividly! When we are exploring and making decisions, we use two generic processes: divergence and convergence…naturally, they have quite different thinking methods.

We use divergent approaches when in need to explore and find new things, a process of looking for options, new ideas and so on. Very important in divergent thinking is to be open. This gives way to a creative generation of ideas generated without judgement or thought about which works best.

Convergence is the opposite …when you are thinking convergently, you are seeking a conclusion, an answer, and closure on the topic in question and the decision is made. For many people this is a point of great satisfaction. For others, it includes the worry that you might have got it wrong...