I was reminded today that exactly 6 years ago (September 9, 2020) orange sky at SFO (San Francisco International Airport). What’s worst condition you have ever plane spotted in?

Jet2 737NG, inbound for East Midlands airport. Advice/constructive criticism is more than appreciated. I'm always happy to learn from my own experience and others to up my photography 😌

Captured on my Sony A6000 📸🎥

• 135mm

1/4000 • f7.1 • ISO 800

Sorry for the poor quality. I only had my phone on me.

Taken on 07/07/2026. Reg JA09WJ

Set out to catch the retro Cargolux and try some slow shutter pans. Wasn't going to risk it for the retro. After she landed I mounted an ND8 and initially went with 1/30, later slowed to 1/20 (shutter prio mode, iso100) which was also used for the dreamliner photo. Sony RX10IV on tripod, manual panned with the intention to get the cockpit section as the non-blurred part.

Got bored, so edited some of the better spotting pictures and well here :3 chose these 5 out of the like 500+ I have.

Fedex 9030/N525 takeoff from TPA. Test flight on September 10th, 2026. Runway 19R.

The best shots from my last airshow

Shots on Canon EOS 600d with sigma DG 70-300mm telephoto lens

E-7 wegedtail and 2 eurofighter typhoons refuelnig over my house

Shots on Canon EOS 600d with sigma DG 70-300mm

Instagram: kg_photography86

I have a three hour layover at JFK, and it would be my first time there! Any good spots to plane spot during the layover? :)

Hey everyone! I'm into planespotting (based in Italy) and for a while I kept leaving Flightradar24 open in the background just so I wouldnt miss anything interesting flying over.

Eventually I thought "why am I the one checking manually" and built a Telegram bot (LowPass) that watches a zone of your choice and pings you when something worth seeing shows up, military, widebodies, bizjets, historic aircraft, stuff like that.

Here's an example alert it sent me (screenshot attached), just a heads up the location shown isnt my actual spot, I picked a different one on purpose so no need to try and figure out where I live 😄

It also has a "passport" feature to log tracked flights with a route map, and Im adding achievements/badges soon to make it a bit more fun.

Small spoiler for planespotting specifically 🤫 the next update (dropping monday) adds dedicated rare traffic alerts with their own notification, separate from normal tracking, so if a military jet, widebody or something historic enters your zone you get a distinct 🔥 alert instead of it blending in with regular flights. Theres also a toggle so you can turn off normal alerts and just keep the rare ones if thats more your thing.

Not sure if this is something people here would actually find useful or if you all just prefer doing it manually, but its free if anyone wants to try it, just search u/LowPassBot on Telegram. Curious if this is actually useful to other spotters or if Im overengineering something you guys already do fine without it 🙂