Udvar-Hazy Center – National Air & Space Museum Annex

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They’re HUGE! A Camera Romp Through The Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport!

Have you ever stood at the end of an airport runway and watched the planes come in 300 feet right over your head at 150 miles an hour? They are HUGE, right? And, thanks to Mr. Daniel Bernoulli s 18th century principle of airflow over a curved wing surface, they atay up in the air!

Now imagine if you could get up real close and personal to these MASSIVE machines with your camera or phone, which is exactly what you can do at the Udvar Hazy Air and Space Museum in Chantilly Virginia, right next to Dulles Airport…

This place is an airplane-lover’s candy store filled with the actual airplanes themselves, not replicas! The museum, housed in a gigantic airplane hangar, offers a spectacular bonanza of telephoto and wide-angle photo opportunities, beginning with the exterior views and then moving to capture the unique historic treasures in each of the galleries, especially the supersonic Concorde, the Enola Gay, the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Lockheed SR71 Blackbird, Japanese Zeros, the first Luftwaffe jet plane, a vast array of helicopters and World War I fighter planes, and the German fighter Focke Wulf 190, as we practice interior low-light photography and mixed lighting w/o flash, with an emphasis on achieving correct color balance and interesting composition.

Here are some samples of the images you will get on this safari

Udvar- Hazy Air and Space Museum | Flickr

Bring a DSLR camera or mirrorless camera, with wide, medium and long lenses. no tripods. This is a also a great safari for smartphone users!