Professional Aviation Photographer Based In Dayton Ohio

Choose Your Location Wisely Location choice is a critical but fun part of plane spotting. When determining where I am going to plane spot in a city, I start by using spotterguide.net to research the known areas. The site seems to be fairly up to date, but I always double check Google Maps to be […]

Getting Access To The Chicago Aviation Department (CAD) Tower Plane spotting Chicago O’Hare From A Control Tower control tower with the ORD O’Hare Airport Watch group in the summer feels like stepping into a dream I’ve had since I was a kid. In the fourth grade Weeblo’s Cub Scouts, we toured the control tower at […]

How To Make Your Plane Spotting Better Plane spotting with still photography is great, but plane spotting with video is even more thrilling. Capturing the sound and movement that you felt at that very moment is exhilarating. Fortunately or unfortunately, social media demands video over still photos. To give you a head start on capturing […]

Hired Again To Photograph A Falcon 900 At CVG In 2025, a business jet client hired me to photograph their aircraft for the fourth time.” A jet leasing agency had a Falcon 900 jet at CVG Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The friendly lady who hired me provided the contact details of the pilot and hangar […]

Jet For Sale At Signature Aviation LUK For the third time in 2025, I was hired to photograph a business jet at Lunken Airfield in Cincinnati, Ohio. This Learjet 45, N356LP, was also located at Signature Aviation, the same FBO as the Cessna 525 earlier in the year. As an aviation photographer, I was so […]

Photographing Jets For Sale One of the 2025 commercial photography jobs I did was to photograph a Cessna 525 business jet, N507HP. This was located at Lunken Airfield in Cincinnati, Ohio. This particular jet was located at Signature Aviation FBO but was being sold by a jet broker / aircraft broker based out of state. […]

Photographing A Navy Ship Each year, I make a trip to Baltimore, Maryland, to spend time with my brother and his family. This year, we decided to visit during Fleet Week 2024, which had me especially excited since I love boats, trains, planes, and anything big and impressive like that. One surprise was the USS […]

My 2nd Visit To Udvar-Hazy We took our annual trip to Baltimore, Maryland, and made a detour to the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum. This aviation museum is in Virginia, just outside Dulles International Airport. I had visited a couple of years earlier to photograph the airplane exhibits and the space shuttle. This time, […]

Photographing A Total Solar Eclipse On April 8, 2024, I was fortunate enough to be at home during the total solar eclipse. I live in Dayton, Ohio, which was right in the path of totality. We experienced nearly the entire duration of the eclipse, making it an unforgettable event. The next total solar eclipse will […]

Photographing Commercial Planes At CVG When I’m in or around Cincinnati, I enjoy visiting CVG (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport) in Hebron, Kentucky, to photograph airplanes. There is a fantastic plane-spotting location at CVG airport. It is a small park overlooking the cargo terminal, runways, and aircraft taking off and landing. The park is thoughtfully designed […]