What Was Your First Ever Accepted Picture?

wilco737 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:50 pm

Hi guys,

was just browsing through my pictures here on a.net and thought: which was the first one I got accepted and when.

I know many try quite long to upload and to get one shot accepted, it is not easy, but don't give up.

So I checked out my pictures, selected "oldest additions first" and here we go:

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Photo © Wilco737

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.

What was your first picture?

wilco737

airkas1 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:12 pm

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Photo © Kas van Zonneveld

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 ^^

mat1979 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:17 pm

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Photo © Matthieu Labatut

Uploaded in 2007. My first shot here needed some editing help from Gary. Thanks

The following picture is the first 100% self taken self edited shot :

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Photo © Matthieu labatut

dendrobatid · Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:24 pm

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

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Photo © Mick Bajcar

Mick Bajcar

spencer · Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:25 pm

My first accepted photo is this one of Concorde. It, till this day, still happens to be one of my personal favourites! Accepted 10 June 2003.

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Photo © Spencer Wilmot

Spence

dazbo5 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:28 pm

This was mine, way back in June 2004;

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Photo © Darren Wilson

It's a little low in the frame and not quite central by todays standards though!

Darren

acontador · Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:59 pm

Uploaded May 1st 2006, how I miss this French ladies

!

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Photo © Andrés Contador - AirTeamImages

At least this one was preserved and incidentally can be found in the small but beautiful Air and Space Museum in Santiago:

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Photo © Andrés Contador - AirTeamImages

Cheers,
Andres

Kukkudrill · Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:21 pm

Shot with an Olympus 3.2MP compact. Accepted 18th August 2004. Ahhh, the years, the years ...

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Photo © Charles Polidano - Touch The Skies

IL76 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:38 pm

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.

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Photo © Eduard Brantjes

Silver1SWA · Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:11 pm

Accepted June 9, 1999. The sad thing is, even waaaaay back then it took many rejections before I could get my first accepted!

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Photo © Ryan Pastorino

747438 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:36 pm

This one from July 2005. Many rejections beforehand though.

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Photo © Phil Broad

Kaphias · Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:36 pm

June 12, 2011... seems so long ago, but it's hardly been half a year:

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Photo © Kaphias

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.

TupolevTu154 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:46 pm

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Photo © Tom Lowther

Taken in November 2004 on a Sony point and shoot. Looking back at some of my older uploads, why did I bother?! They're terrible!

Silver1SWA · Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:07 pm

Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 9):
Accepted June 9, 1999

Oops, correction. June 30, 1999.

aadc10137 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:15 pm

First photo added Jan 9th, 2008. Of course it was of a classic DC-9!!

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Photo © Andy Egloff

Andy

scbriml · Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:26 pm

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Photo © Steve Brimley

July 2003 seems like such a long time ago now.

Moose135 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:30 pm

Shot June 16, 2006, added to the DB July 2006. Final F-14 visit home to Long Island - until the last Tomcat was retired here in October of that year.

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Photo © John Musolino

Don't remember how many rejections I had before this one was accepted, I had over 75 on the "other" site by the time this one made it here.

vortex003 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:59 pm

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Photo © Wayne Fivey

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

vzlet · Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:18 pm

Still one of my favorites, but would probably be rejected today:
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Photo © Mark Carlisle

Newark727 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:14 pm

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Photo © John Price

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.

planespot · Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:18 pm

The 5,750th photo uploaded on the site:
Upload date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Photo © Cary Liao

Do I win anything for sticking around this long?

walter2222 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:18 pm

My first shot was uploaded om September 29th, 2005:

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Photo © Walter Van Bel

PS: I think I have re-uploaded it once because of the colors.

Best regards,

Walter

picester · Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:09 pm

Here my first photo accepted into the database in July 2007, to my surprise, after many rejections that I could not understand ...

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Photo © Pierre Cester

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.

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Photo © Pierre Cester

I hope my latest photos, loaded into the base, are better ...

Cheers
Pierre

ptrjong · Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:17 pm

22 October 2004.

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Photo © Peter de Jong

Quite a lucky shot from close range on a very bright autumn day. It was accepted in a large size, I re-uploaded it in my standard 1024 px size.

Peter

tristar501 · Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:34 pm

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.

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Photo © Andreas Mueller - Spotterteam Graz

Psych · Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:55 pm

A nice thread Phil

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My first photo was accepted on the 18th September, 2004. I can still remember the excitement of getting my first picture published on the internet:

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Photo © Paul Markman

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.

All the best.

Paul

derekf · Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:30 pm

This beauty was taken on the 15th May 2000 and accepted on May 19th 2000.

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Photo © Derek Ferguson

The acceptance criteria have moved on somewhat since then.

vikkyvik · Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:36 am

Denim Blue pulling into the gate at BOS (added July 15, 2010):

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Photo © Vik S

It was another 5 months before I got my 2nd acceptance....

INNflight · Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:43 am

Gaaah.... those were the days. Good thread, it's fun to browse one's old shots again.

My first one, accepted FEB 03rd 2004.

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Photo © Jet Visuals

YANQUI67 · Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:24 am

Added September 29, 2002, It was one of the best thrills in my life after a bunch of rejections. Now I have over 3400 added. Wow!!

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Photo © Agustin Anaya

withak · Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:26 am

Added on the 8th of February 2008 after the customary initial failures.

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Photo © Kris Mogford

Turns out the latest photo I put in the queue is also an Air New Zealand 777.

Kris

sunandan · Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:25 am

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

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Photo © Sunandan Subramaniam

lindy field · Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:28 am

My first one, accepted back on November 30, 2002. And I've only made it to 50 in the db after all this time.

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Photo © Edward Kehler

unattendedbag · Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:56 am

I was very lucky with my first acceptance!

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Photo © John Padgett
From: [email protected]
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 (https://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:

- 05pp-xmb0117.jpg (Embraer Embraer ERJ-190)
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A total of 1 photos processed.

dueckimages · Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:01 am

My first accepted photo, albeit only a few weeks ago and got accepted on the first try.

whales · Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:09 am

My first photo was added on 9 May 2009, it was at my home airport! This was after many failures! The plane was here bringing medical supplies!

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Photo © William Whaley

William

Plainplane · Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:16 am

This is my first, accepted November 16, 2008:

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Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:23 pm

Quoting lindy field (Reply 32):
And I've only made it to 50 in the db after all this time

You and me both

My first was this odd looking bird, and I guess it would have been a distance and center rejection today:

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Photo © Johnny Kristensen

Added september 10th 2006

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!)

jorge1812 · Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:50 pm

Man I've been so proud on this October 19 back in 2003
about this pic

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teopilot · Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:22 pm

I'm not so "old" over here as many of you... but I got my first DLSR about two years ago.

At the moment, many things are changed, my technique is improved as well as the equipment.

But I can remember the struggle of getting the very first one accepted...
Finally, I made it! LOL

it was this one :

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Photo © Matteo Stella

NOthing special, I know, but it meant a lot for me... it was one of my very first spotting sessions, also taken in a foreign country!

Matteo

SAA380 · Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:40 pm

Man was I happy to have it accepted. It was my first time using my new SLR at the airshow.

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glen · Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:07 pm

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!

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packman · Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:56 pm

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.

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NZ107 · Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:42 pm

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!

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Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 9):

Haha yeah I'd love to know how many rejections I got before I got my first accepted.. And I'm sure those rejections kept coming for 4 years!

UltimateDelta · Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:53 pm

November 16, 2008:

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Photo © Erik Ingram

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 · Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:22 pm

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.

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dlednicer · Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:33 am

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.

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