Horizon and Popham EGHP.

Following a couple of horizon rejections of shots from EGHP Popham could I bring to the attention of the screeners that there isn't a flat piece of real estate on the entire airfield. Please take note of clues like cloud layer level, vertically standing people and vertically growing trees before making a horizon decision on images from Popham. Thank you.

You had three images rejected lately Brian and only one was for a level problem Screener 1 "Second opinion. Not sure about the horizon. Slight yellow color cast." and screener 2 "needs cw rotation."

You perhaps have a point about the horizon but I have to agree about the colour cast. Google the registration and you will see the difference on other photographers pictures. I would have rejected it for a colour cast had I screened it.

You know yourself that screening is a thankless job, you could have made their job easier had you seen fit to add a mention to the screeners concerning this geographical anomaly in the Remarks to the Screener Box.

Failing that the first port of call should have been to appeal the screening decision rather than going off at half-cock and washing your laundry in public for all to see.

Wallace, first off, I never mentioned the colour cast. For that reason I didn't appeal although the aircraft has a light cream coloured fuselage, not white. My latest upload is in fact an inaccurate rendition of the colour and has been adjusted to meet the screeners comments. If it had just been a case of the horizon rejection then I would have appealed. (actually, I wouldn't ! I didn't get to the rejection until more than seven days after it and it seems that I cannot appeal after seven days).

Secondly, I'm not washing laundry in public or going off half cock, I'm making a reasonable comment about an airfield that is possibly unique in the entire UK population of GA airfields, with the possible exception of Compton Abbas and Stapleford in that it has massive changes in slope, as much as 5 degrees in places. I know just about every inch of Popham having been ground marshalling there for four years now. OK, possibly I could have worded it differently and if I have upset anyone that was not my intention.

The screeners over at Jet Photos know all about the Popham slopes, indeed it is a running subject of "banter" in their screening forum. In future I will leave a note to AP screeners but I just thought that this would be an easier way to attract the attention of all the AP crew.

Regards,

Brian.

....and to Michael Carberry....

I haven't forgotten the re-upload of the Virgin 747 at Gatwick that you suggested Michael. I just haven't got around to it yet.