I think every guy, at some point in their life, is infatuated with airplanes. Whether it is dreaming of being a fighter pilot after seeing the movie Top Gun, building model airplanes, or checking out every book the local library has on them… it seems we all go through it. Most of us don’t go on to become ‘Maverick’, but I’d imagine that we all still get a little excited at the thought of sitting in the pilot’s seat or getting full access to a plane on the ground… at least I do anyway; so I was totally thrilled to find out that the last field trip of the University of Tennessee’s ‘Night Photography’ class would be held at Island Home Airport. Turns out that instructor Steve Chastain is good friends with a couple of the good people over at Remote Area Medical, and they got us access to the hangar where their planes are kept. Yep, totally cool. This was BY FAR the most fun I’ve had in any photography class (no offense to my previous instructors… but this was super cool)… there was just so much to shoot. The moon was full and the planes were shiny. It was awesome. 🙂
–Dan Thompson