If you either live or are visiting Arizona and haven’t already, absolutely take the time to check these 2 places out, especially if you are a photographer. They have so many different types of planes it is just ridiculous.
The Pima Air and Space Museum is made up of several large hangars, with a couple hundred planes parked outside that you can walk around and inspect up close.
The ‘Boneyard’ is on an Airforce base, and you tour it on a bus that you cannot exit, so all of those photos where take on a bus through a window. There are probably several thousand military planes there in many different states of storage, repair or salvage. I took a quick walking tour of the main Hangar, then rode on the Boneyard tour, then came back and rode on the Pima Shuttle tour for the outdoor planes. I think I spend about 7 hours there just looking, taking pictures and walking around. An absolutely fascinating place.
All images were taken with a Canon 5Diii and a Canon 24-70 2.8L . Nearly all of the indoor images that look ‘Painted’ were done with Michael Andrew Paintballer Pro ® – ‘Grenade’ – Preset . It took me about 20 seconds to process all of them using that set. (For some reason, Paintballer makes KILLER images of Planes parked in hangars). If you either live or are visiting Arizona and haven’t already, absolutely take the time to check these 2 places out, especially if you are a photographer. They have so many different types of planes it is just ridiculous.
The Pima Air and Space Museum is made up of several large hangars, with a couple hundred planes parked outside that you can walk around and inspect up close.
The ‘Boneyard’ is on an Airforce base, and you tour it on a bus that you cannot exit, so all of those photos where take on a bus through a window. There are probably several thousand military planes there in many different states of storage, repair or salvage. I took a quick walking tour of the main Hangar, then rode on the Boneyard tour, then came back and rode on the Pima Shuttle tour for the outdoor planes. I think I spend about 7 hours there just looking, taking pictures and walking around. An absolutely fascinating place.
All images were taken with a Canon 5Diii and a Canon 24-70 2.8L . Nearly all of the indoor images that look ‘Painted’ were done with Michael Andrew Paintballer Pro ® – ‘Grenade’ – Preset . It took me about 20 seconds to process all of them using that set. (For some reason, Paintballer makes KILLER images of Planes parked in hangars). 
Back at Pima Air & Space….
This is so cool Michael!! Seeing these photos makes me think that no one has ever seen a true UFO…they just saw one of these cool planes flying around.
This is awesome. Toured the Spruce Goose, aviation museum in Chicago and then Smithsonian, I didn’t see anything like this. My father was an airline mechanic thus sparking my interest in these beautiful machines (Pappy Boyington anyone?)…..wonder when the last time one got taken for a fly? Thank you for sharing.
Yes, I agree that Pima Air and Space Museum is perfect place for photography. I spend a one day there with my family members and saw much of it. It was a great time over there. I captured many shots and still remember a lot from museum. You can read more about this museum at http://www.etraveldestinations.com/pima-air-space-museum-worlds-most-voluminous-aerospace-museum/.