Accepted September 20th in 2004... Quite some time ago. And it felt great to read the notification email. I don't have that email anymore as I changed email providers after 2004.
Accepted March 24, 2004. Shot with a very simple Kodak point and shoot digital camera and no post-processing done if I recall correctly. I've come a long way since then ^^
dendrobatid From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2004, 1524 posts, RR: 67 Reply 3, posted (4 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 4173 times:
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Just 9 days before Kas, 15th March, 2004.
I think it has been re-uploaded three times as my scanning and editing has improved, and I still like the shot
il76 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2004, 2223 posts, RR: 53 Reply 8, posted (4 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4118 times:
Number 11617, accepted in July 1998. Photo shows no upload date, neither were there any view counters at the time of uploading. Johan hadn't programmed it yet and he was the only (not-so-picky) screener.
Rescanned/reuploaded a few years ago.
I had been trying to get photos accepted for about 6 months before that shot made it in. As soon as I saw on the news that a C-5 had landed at the airport, I knew that the circumstances of the shot, being the first C-5 to visit in over 10 years, would give it a fighting chance of getting accepted. I was actually on vacation in California driving up highway 1 when I got the acceptance message... and one day later I was taking screenshots on my iPhone of it on the front page of Airliners.net while sitting on my flight home. Certainly not my favorite shot, but I love the whole story behind it.
Went to the airport to catch this civvy Gazelle,when i heard the Army pilot call on the radio.Crossed my legs (as fingers were busy!) hoping he'd appear in the background so i could get both together - which he duly did
This was my first, after I submitted something terrible with an Olympus P&S and had it rejected not long before. However I had just received the 50D I use today and after what was I believe either a level or a color rejection I got this lovely Kalitta into the database. I believe N712CK is now stored, though.
My surprise was even greater, when my second photo accepted into the database was the top of the day in the home page. That was a big encouragement to go ahead.
tristar501 From Austria, joined Feb 2004, 90 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (4 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3960 times:
January 2003, when I started editing the shoots of my trip from Boston to Dallas with a stopover in Chicago. The pictures were taken with a Sony DSC-P5 pocket camera which I bought a few days before.
Actually I seem to recall two photos were accepted at the same time, after a couple of tries and some friendly advice from the screeners. Just looking back now reminded me that at that time I was trying to upload at larger sizes - not the most sensible move for a new starter here.
sunandan From India, joined Jun 2005, 162 posts, RR: 2 Reply 31, posted (4 months 1 day ago) and read 3932 times:
Quoting Psych (Reply 25): I can still remember the excitement of getting my first picture published on the internet:
Me too Paul!
My first accepted shot was this airport overview of Dallas Love Field, added 29 June, 2007. I was lucky with the photo op, as the approach path into DFW that day took me right over DAL. And ofcourse, the really clean window on the old Mad Dog that day helped
From: screeners@airliners.net
To: me
Cc:
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:25:03 +0100
Subject: Airliners.net photo uploads: First screening results
John padgett,
This mail is sent to you to confirm that some or all of the photos
you recently uploaded to Airliners.Net (http://www.airliners.net)
have been through the first screening and rejection process.
This is the status of your photos:
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The following photos were accepted without warnings:
I remember thinking "Finally I am an Airliners.net photographer". And just a few weeks ago I got my 50th accepted I thought to myself "Finally I am on the Airliners.net photographers list". But, with my luck that 50 image limit will be raised to 100 and I will be out in the cold again (Just to clarify, there are no such discussions!)
7D, 17-40 F4 L, 70-200 F2.8 L IS, EF 1.4x II, EF 2x III, Metz 58-AF1
glen From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 170 posts, RR: 2 Reply 41, posted (4 months 14 hours ago) and read 3781 times:
My first acceptance was already somewhere in January 2002. Got married half a year before and family takes most of my time since. Therefore I have only about an average of two pictures a year since... But kids are growing and may be I'll have some more time in the future!
packman From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 80 posts, RR: 0 Reply 42, posted (4 months 11 hours ago) and read 3741 times:
I can't remember whether I had any rejections before my first shot was accepted, in fact I had two acceptances on the 14th June 2005 - I think I was just lucky.
I certainly had a lot of rejections after that and my next and first airliner shot was not accepted until about 4 months later when I began to understand the requirements prevailing at that time. My shots nowadays tend to be mainly airliners at Heathrow which is relatively local to me.
NZ107 From New Zealand, joined Jul 2005, 4883 posts, RR: 50 Reply 43, posted (4 months 9 hours ago) and read 3711 times:
Gotta love these self plugs!
My first was accepted 13 Oct 2007. I remember spending an age editing this one! I remember how proud I was to get this image up because I was playing around with aperture priority. Photography has come a long way since then!
Actually, this was my least favorite of all of the ones I took that day (I thought all the others were far more interesting ), but I went ahead and submitted it, so here it is!
africaspotter From Germany, joined Jun 2006, 17 posts, RR: 0 Reply 45, posted (4 months 7 hours ago) and read 3697 times:
I never expected the photo to be accepted and it instantly made the TOP 5 of the day. It is still the photo with the most hits... That was nearly three years ago and I have learnt a lot since then.
dlednicer From United States of America, joined May 2005, 445 posts, RR: 7 Reply 46, posted (4 months 6 hours ago) and read 3679 times:
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Back in 2002, I had submitted a scan of a slide and it got rejected. Discouraged, I resorted to just being a looker. In February 2004, I had some digital photos on my computer taken at the IAF museum the previous October and I thought "why not try again?" The images were taken with a 2.1 Mp Canon PowerShot A20 and were 1024x768 as taken. Imagine my surprise when this one was accepted on the first try - this encouraged me on. I have since been back and have retaken the photo with a much better camera. I'm thinking of submitting it for #3000. As of right now, I have 169 acceptances to go to reach this total.
EGCC777LR From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2006, 138 posts, RR: 0 Reply 50, posted (3 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 3612 times:
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My first shot was uploaded on August 4th 2009.
I had been trying for a couple of years to upload with no success, I was finding the whole situation unbelievably frustrating and nearly gave up on several occasions. My last throw of the dice was to upgrade my equipment, I bought a brand new Nikon D90 and armed it with a AF-S 70-300mm VR lens and tried again, this shot was taken on the first outing with the new gear.
Who would have thought that it also helped to be on the South Side at Manchester with the sun behind me why would that make any difference....
It was a combination of factors in the end, the right equipment, the right positioning, the right technique and learning how to edit! Every day I shoot now, I try to learn something new, it's never ending. The day I got the email saying that I had a shot uploaded I was over the moon! I rung all my friends who I thought would be (slightly) interested so they could click on it.
In the end, for a fairly plain side on shot, she has rung up nearly 7500 hits. My second upload is still my biggest hitter to date at just over 53000 clicks. I thought I had it made and it was going to be easy after that, I wish I could say it has been! But it has been loads of fun and I have got some shots here that I am really proud of. I have also had some nice help along the way from Peter Hulse and Mick Bajcar to name just a couple, my thanks to them both and the other screeners that have helped me to where I have got today, long may it continue!
Back than I knew very little about Airliners.net. Actually, I thought that in accordance with its name it only had photos of airliners and nothing else. One day I was searching for some Yak-18T photos and was quite surprised to find some on this website; I realised that it had pictures of GA aircraft, too. At the time I was working on an article about the Curtiss Robin. I had taken some shots for the article and I thought, "Well, if they take GA photos, why don't I send them some pictures of this airplane; as it is quite rare, some people may appreciate being able to see them." And so I did; I uploaded three or four photos of the same aircraft. One of them was accepted; I was very surprised that the other ones got rejected; I had no idea what 'double' or 'motive' meant. Then I thought that it was actually pretty cool, to have my picture on Airliners.net, and I decided to upload some more. And that was it - I got hooked.
Recently I tried to upload again one of the shots that were rejected in that my very first batch. I did however apply some additional sharpening. Surprisingly, it got accepted, too. Only took five years and nine month :
NPeterman From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 106 posts, RR: 0 Reply 53, posted (3 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 3566 times:
Compared to some, mine was not all that long ago. After the usual stumbling and rejections, finally managed to break through with this shot of my favorite military aircraft:
Sadly, serious issues with my camera have slowed my submissions to a trickle, and I'm yet to hit the 50 mark in the DB , but I'm working to hopefully hit 100 in the next few months
Added on March 11th in 2003. I was so happy when I finally managed to get a pic into the DB. If I remember correctly it took less than a couple of hours to get the picture screened
ThierryD From Luxembourg, joined Dec 2005, 1995 posts, RR: 54 Reply 57, posted (3 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 3451 times:
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Still remember it well; didn't have an own digital camera back then so I borrowed my sister's one (actually had it more often than her eventually ). A lot has happened since those late days in 2003.
Not the best shot, but at the time I only had a 18-55mm lens, luckily at Manchester we have the mound and it was good enough....
I don't go spotting that often and sometimes it is months between visits. I remember asking for advice with this one, and then found out it was accepted whilst I was away for the weekend
yerbol From Kazakhstan, joined Feb 2010, 157 posts, RR: 0 Reply 59, posted (3 months 4 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 3421 times:
My first photo was uploaded in November 2010. I remember that evening when I came home and checked my mailbox and have found e-mail from screeners. It was amazing feeling!
I remember the hour my first picture was accepted after 22 rejections of previous work. I can attest, it was a good feeling being counted among the photographers within this site.
gol....
It was accepted about 10 minutes ago! Cool stuff!!
Good to have the first into the database. Many thanks to the screeners and to those in here for the feedback. Have found Canon DPP alone to not do so well in post-processing. Lightroom reduced the noise and does a much better job.
IRISH251 From Ireland, joined Nov 2004, 882 posts, RR: 5 Reply 64, posted (3 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 3212 times:
A slide-scan added on the last day of 2003 - I didn't realise it was so long ago. Though pricy at the time, my Nikon Coolscan V slide scanner turned out to be a very worthwhile investment, as I am still scanning my own slides as well as some for friends.
Dazed767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5406 posts, RR: 55 Reply 67, posted (3 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 3191 times:
Having been a slide photographer, I barely had any prints to scan. When I bought a scanner, I tried this one and was surprised that it got accepted. Seeing it today, I'm still surprised it was accepted
Of course I wanted more and I bought a slide scanner. And here we are, 622 scanned slides later, hundreds more waiting to be edited an possibly thousands more left to be scanned... .
Cathay111 From Australia, joined Oct 2006, 55 posts, RR: 21 Reply 73, posted (3 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2996 times:
This was my first entry in the A.net database, it was added over 13 years ago! Wow, that really sounds like a long time ago doesn't it?! When film was king, digital photography meant scanning and Johan did all the screening!
Looking back at this shot I remember the years of fun I've had uploading photos here and there on the intergoogle. I've met many fine folks along the way and look forward to meeting many more.
While we're looking at oldies, let's have a look at my old mate Frank's first upload here! He may have left us all those years ago but his legacy lives on in his fine collection of aviation slides.
I really want to scan some more of his collection but my old scanner isn't compatible with my new computer which makes it a bit difficult. I'll get there one day........one day.
Accidentally From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 629 posts, RR: 0 Reply 74, posted (3 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 2983 times:
I was delighted of course, this is my first upload of that particular photograph although I failed in 9 previous attempts on another different photograph lol.
Since then, I've only had one more photo accepted, which happened only a few days back. Both self-edited (also self taught myself my photography 'skills' which wasn't good at all last June), which I'm proud of as I didn't know how to edit anything in November. This gives me the motivation to learn more and improve further.
captainstefan From United States of America, joined May 2007, 253 posts, RR: 0 Reply 80, posted (3 months 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2470 times:
I was only 11 years old when I took this photo so my composing skills were a bit off. This was taken from the observation deck that was on the roof of terminal 1. Tri-X scanned from negative
Cargolex From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 895 posts, RR: 9 Reply 83, posted (3 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2349 times:
When I was a kid, I loved flying and airplanes. But in 1996, I had to fly in a tropical storm, and after we landed on my CLE-LGA flight, another flight (a DL MD-88) clipped an approach light on landing, had a gear collapse, and came skidding to a halt on the runway just a few meters away from long island sound. This experience utterly soured me on flying and for more than a decade I had a real fear of flying, until my job required learning all about aviation and specifically the air cargo industry in 2010.
The more I learned, the less afraid I became. And nowadays I wish I hadn't essentially driven everywhere (except international flights) from 1996 to about 2004. If I flew back then, it was only because a Pontiac Bonneville hardtop can't actually cross an ocean under it's own power. I missed the tail end of the time I could have flown on my favorite plane - the 727-200!
Discovering A.net while learning more about aviation made me wonder if I could get good enough to get a photo accepted, and soon enough, it happened.
The quality of what I upload has come a long way since then. Tons of rejections in those early days. Still a fair number these days, in fact, but I wouldn't do it if it weren't fun.
dlowwa From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 5154 posts, RR: 36 Reply 85, posted (3 months 1 week 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2313 times:
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Quoting JohnnyH (Reply 84): how long does it take to get my queue done?
The queue is currently at about eight days long, so your images will likely be screened on the 16th, as you uploaded them on the 8th. However, having now seen the two you have in the queue, I can save you the five-day wait and tell you that they will certainly both be rejected if you leave them to be screened. They have multiple problems (blurry, noisy, bad info) that are likely not fixable, so I suggest removing them from the queue. If you would like more details, please start a thread in the Feedback Forum
Taken October 1st 2002 at BRU and accepted to the DB on October 6th 2002. Almost ten years ago (and 720 successful uploads). What a terrible edit, I must say...Time goes fast indeed.
Now let's hope some of my current photos in the queue get accepted in the next few days
Eurowings Canadair CRJ-100
Photo taken on 13.September 2002
with my first Digicam Olympus C-720
accepted to the database 13.September 2002 (check out these sceenig-times: non-sepcial photo added the same day it was taken!!! Those times have long gone...)
varig767 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2005, 242 posts, RR: 4 Reply 91, posted (3 months 19 hours ago) and read 1774 times:
My first accepted photo is rather a 'collectors item' : A triple seven in Varig colours! Shot with a Minolta 500Si super and scanned with an old-fashioned no-name scanner.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 11740 posts, RR: 50 Reply 95, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1500 times:
Silver1SWA From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 4041 posts, RR: 31 Reply 96, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1487 times:
Quoting aal151heavy (Reply 94): Not too many of you had your first upload in the last century...boy do I feel old.
I was always surprised we never crossed paths at SJC after seeing your early uploads. I spent a lot of time at that location back then.
Quoting aal151heavy (Reply 94): I never re-scanned those first uploads out of nostalgia.
Same here. I thought about having my earliest uploads removed because they are awful, but I kept them out of nostalgia.
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kann123air From United States of America, joined Jun 2009, 170 posts, RR: 0 Reply 98, posted (2 months 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1118 times:
Just accepted this December:
Accepted after 22 rejections!
Sponsor Message: 
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