"Dan Moos" wrote in message
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The main gear looks like it's kinda "melded" into the stands for lack of a
better word.

As for the light standard, well, I guess I don't know the effects of a
telephoto lens, but to my layman's eyes it appears to be in the path of
the
wing. Can the right lense really do this? Especially since the standes and
the plane seem to be equally in focus.



I think it is just the foreshortening effect. Everything is in focus
because telephoto lenses do this with items that are both far from the lense
but at somewhat different distances. Everything gets compressed into
approximately the same depth of field, so the light stanchion looks like it
is about to get sucked into #4. The main gear appears to blend with the
stands because the elements of each are about the same color values. Its
clearly a takeoff picture. Looks like an appropriate flap extension, deck
angle looks about right, and the gear is clearly in transit, as indicated by
the open gear doors.