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This years Peoples Choice Award short list is here📸Make sure you go and like your favourite image!
12/11/2025

This years Peoples Choice Award short list is here📸

Make sure you go and like your favourite image!

30/10/2025

Behind the scenes of that photo sortie with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight!

As you can see our Ops team really enjoyed this one and have produced some incredible results from it.

Looking back to these incredible images from Cpl Hobbs captured as part of an air to air photographic sortie on Op CHESS...
03/07/2025

Looking back to these incredible images from Cpl Hobbs captured as part of an air to air photographic sortie on Op CHESSMAN. The photo platform for this tasking was a Polish Air Force CASA C-295M which launched from 22 Tactical Air Base, Malbork, Poland and met up with a Royal Air Force Typhoon, a Polish Air Force MiG-29, a Polish Air Force F-16 and two Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripens once airborne.

A special thank you to those behind the scenes whose valuable expertise ensure sorties of this type can take place safely. What a batch of imagery to have in your portfolio!

As part of ODI 100, celebrating the 100th anniversary of aviation from the airfield that became RAF Odiham, the station ...
20/06/2025

As part of ODI 100, celebrating the 100th anniversary of aviation from the airfield that became RAF Odiham, the station recently welcomed a host of historic aircraft to the airfield. Our personnel were on hand to record the event with Cpl Tierney joining other aviation photographers in the sky to capture some of the arrivals and AS2 Head covering the ground movements.

A great set of images to mark these celebrations and record this unique event.

What a glorious day for Trooping the Colour! With the sun shining brightly, the RAF flypast brought a fitting finale and...
17/06/2025

What a glorious day for Trooping the Colour! With the sun shining brightly, the RAF flypast brought a fitting finale and the RAF Red Arrows displaying their famous smoke along The Mall once again.

Whilst the ground activity was expertly covered by our army colleagues, we had numerous personnel in the air including AS1 Lewis as Circus10, Mr Wheeler from the RAF Cranwell section hovering above the palace, the RAF Odiham section in the Chinooks leading the flypast and members of the VisCom Ops team also in the Chinooks and the standby helicopter.

A great event to cover as always and made even more special knowing the Royal Family are watching from the balcony below along with the thousands of spectators we can see from the sky.

And just like that we are approaching the end of Ex Cobra Warrior 25-1. The aircraft and supporting personnel have been ...
12/03/2025

And just like that we are approaching the end of Ex Cobra Warrior 25-1.

The aircraft and supporting personnel have been working hard throughout the exercise, all captured by our team at RAF Waddington.

Exercise Cobra Warrior is the largest air exercise run by the Royal Air Force. The exercise is designed to train exercise participants in high intensity large force tactical air war fighting operations controlled by directing staff at RAF Waddington.

Aircraft on show at Waddington have included the F-15SA of the Royal Saudi Air Force, the Dassault Rafale of the Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace and the F-16's of the Turkish Air Force.

We know a lot of you have spent the exercise on the fence line at RAF Waddington and we hope you have enjoyed the experience and got yourself some great shots for your portfolio!

A highlight of our teams' participation in large-scale exercises is the opportunity to work alongside unique aircraft fr...
15/02/2025

A highlight of our teams' participation in large-scale exercises is the opportunity to work alongside unique aircraft from other countries, some very rarely seen in the UK.

Check out some of our favorites from AS1 Barnard and AS1 Jones, who've been covering Exercise Red Flag with participating aircraft from the United States Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force.

Exercise Red Flag is currently underway at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, USA. The exercise is celebrating its 50th ye...
03/02/2025

Exercise Red Flag is currently underway at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, USA. The exercise is celebrating its 50th year and 48 years of UK participation.

Royal Air Force Typhoons, Voyager and personnel have joined counterparts from the United States and Australia. The exercise provides realistic, complex and large-scale missions in one of the world’s toughest and best combat training environments.

We have a pair of Visual Communicators out covering the exercise and we look forward to seeing more content as the exercise progresses.

The judging for the 2024 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition, sponsored by Wex Photo Video, has been completed with...
01/11/2024

The judging for the 2024 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition, sponsored by Wex Photo Video, has been completed with the winning imagery and videos selected across a variety of different categories.

With over a thousand images and videos submitted, the 11 judges found themselves spending close to a week narrowing down their final choices, before selecting a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended.

Alongside the winning imagery, a selection of 9 images were then chosen to go head-to-head in the annual Peoples’ Choice category where the general public can vote over the next 2 weeks, via the Royal Air Force's official page, for their favourite image. With the result announced at the RAF Photographic Competition Awards in RAF Bentley Priory on November 14th.

The pinnacle of the RAF Photographic Competition is the RAF Photographer of the Year award, which was won this year by Mr Andrew Wheeler of RAF Cranwell with his portfolio of six images.

The RAF Section Category was won by RAF Lossiemouth with a diverse and varied portfolio of imagery which included images captured of the RAF’s newest subhunter, the P-8A Poseidon.
Competition Judges had the following to say.

Aviation photographer, Hesja Air-Art Photography, said “First of all, I would like to thank you very much for entrusting me with the role of judging in such an important competition.

It is a great honour, privilege and responsibility for me.

When I first saw the submitted images, it immediately told me that it would not be easy to choose the best ones. Some photographers had phenomenal opportunities to make their works, others had better equipment, others with greater technique or creative ideas.

When choosing the best imagery, I had to take into account the composition, technique of both photography and processing and probably the most important - the wow effect!

The calibre of the photos is extremely high. It took a lot of work for me to decide on the winning images. But I liked that and enjoyed the challenge of judging! ”

Documentary Photographer Giles Penfold added, “It was such a privilege and pleasure to judge these photographs. Many congratulations to all those who entered and in particular to the remarkable winners.”

RAF PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION 2024 WINNERS

Category A – Personnel.

1st - The Last Ride - AS2 Webb
2nd - Rear Cover - AS1 McFalls
3rd - It’s Ok To Not Be Ok - Miss Ward
Highly Commended (HC) - Cheers to the King - Mr Wheeler
HC - Touch Down in Paradise - AS1 Barnard

Category B – The Mallett Student Trophy.

1st - AS2 Lisa Coulston
2nd - AS2 Ben Webb
3rd - AS2 Amelia Wise
HC - AS2 Nathan Evans
HC - AS1 Liam Derbyshire

Category C – Photographic Section Portfolio.

1st - RAF Lossiemouth
2nd - RAF Red Arrows
3rd - Photo ACSSU
HC - RAF Odiham
HC - RAF Akrotiri

Category E – RAF Feature.

1st - AS1 Sam Dale - RAF Odiham
2nd - Cpl Liz Brown - RAF Media Reserves
3rd - AS2 Lisa Coulston - RAF Marham
HC - AS1 Niran Lewis - RAF Lossiemouth
HC - Cpl Phil Dye - RAFAT

Category F – RAF Sports.

1st - Golden - AS1 Josh Gorman - RAF Benson
2nd - Into The Blue - Cpl Sally Raimondo - RAF Waddington
3rd - We Are The Champions - Cpl Nathan Edwards - Royal Air Force Cosford
HC - Follow the Leader - AS1 Tomas Barnard - Photo ACSSU
HC - Freestylin - Cpl Lauren Brown - RAF Valley

Category G – The Amateur Category.

1st - Sky Viking - Flt Lt Andrews
2nd - A400M - James Penberthy
3rd - D-Day Typhoon - Sqn Ldr Watson
HC - Chinook Aurora - Jared Pugh
HC - Tactical Knee - AS1 Wheatland

Category H – RAF Photographer of the Year.

1st - Mr Wheeler - RAF Cranwell
2nd - AS1 Barnard - Photo ACSSU
3rd - Sgt Matthews - Defence School of Photography
HC - AS1 Mayall - RAF Marham
HC - AS1 Jones - Photo ACSSU

Category I – Current RAF Equipment.

1st - Coastal Cadence - Cpl Dye - RAFAT
2nd - Northern Lightning - AS1 Mayall - RAF Marham
3rd - Homeward Bound - AS1 Muir - RAFAT
HC - Morning from Down Under - AS1 Russell - Photo ACSSU
HC - Call in a Cab - AS1 Barnard - Photo ACSSU

Category J – Technical/Engineering Photography.

1st - Silent Disco - Cpl Dye - RAFAT
2nd - Sunrise Refuel - AS1 Muir - RAFAT
3rd - Under the Wings - Cpl Dye - RAFAT
HC - Weapon of Choice - Mr Beattie - RAF Wyton
HC - Turbine - AS1 McFalls - RAF Lossiemouth

Category K – RAF Operations & Exercises.

1st - Call in a Cab - AS1 Barnard - Photo ACSSU
2nd - Clear to Launch - AS1 Mayall - RAF Marham
3rd - Human Nature - Cpl Laurence - Photo ACSSU
HC - Global Influence - AS1 Lewis - RAF Lossiemouth
HC - We Are Still Here - Sgt Matthews - DSOP

Category L – Video.

1st - Cpl Mayfield - RAF Marham
2nd - AS1 Kirwan-Taylor - Photo ACSSU
3rd - AS1 Kirwan-Taylor - Photo ACSSU
HC - Cpl Wade & AS1 Sparks
HC - Cpl Roberts - RAF Akrotiri

Congratulations one and all.

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