onto the external aircraft structure away from the photographer and is triggered remotely using a mechanical or electrical shutter release. The image has to be composed when the aircraft is on the ground, because the photographer has no access to the camera while the aircraft is in flight. Much brainstorming and planning must be done while setting up the camera to get the desired shot. Remote photography is the least common type of aviation photography. The first time close head-on remote photography had been used was in 1977 when photographer Richard Cooke, working with Sqn Ldr Alan Voyle, Senior Engineering Officer of The Red Arrows, developed a camera bracket to fit on the underside of a spare Red Arrows Folland Gnat aircraft. The pilots were carefully briefed on the ground and then, in the air, the photographer operated the camera from the back seat of the camera aircraft, using a mechanical release triggered by a solenoid, operated through the anti-collision light. The Nikkormat camera with autowind pointed back at the Red Arrows team and was fitted with a wide angle 24mm Nikkor lens. The photography was commissioned by the Telegraph Sunday Magazine and made the front cover on 3 July 1977. Databases Databases exist on the internet, cataloguing aviation photographs. These include airliners.net, jetphotos.com, airplane-pictures.net, airhistory.net, v1images.com and allow users to search them for photographs of aircraft based on user-specified criteria. Notable people Rudy Arnold (1902–1966), aviation photographer References External links Target Aviation Photography Falcons Spotters - Aviation Photography AirTeamImages Aviation Photo library v1images Aviation Media - Stock Image Library - Aviation Gallery JetPhotos.net AirHistory.net Aviation History Image Archive AJ-Aviation Photography Mark Jayne Aviation Photography Aero Aviation Photography Photo Database International Society for Aviation Photography Black and White Aviation Photography Aviation Photo Forum Airplane-Pictures Aircraft.co.za - User-submitted aviation photography site OPShots.net Aviation Photo gallery Photography Aviation photographers Aviation photography Photography by genre Aviation art