Fairey Swordfish II LS326 by Chris Lord
Chris Lord

Fairey Swordfish II LS326 by

The Fairey Swordfish was a torpedo bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company and used by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Here she is coming home after hunting Submarines and the Bismark. It was a Swordfish that torpedoed and crippled the Bismark allowing her to be sunk.
Various photographs (original plane, two skies, beach) shot with a Canon 5D MKII and combined with 3 lightly applied textures in Photoshop using layers, various blend modes and masks plus slight tweaks in Topaz Detail.

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About Chris Lord

Photography has been an obsession since I was 13 years old and went off to Italy clutching my mother’s accordion style 1940s roll film camera. I’ve been fooling with computers since I bought an Amiga 1000 back in 1985. My first chunky pixelized images were digitized into that machine using a black and white CCTV camera. At last, with today’s software and hardware I feel that I can create the images I see in my mind’s eye.

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fairey, swordfish, aircraft, torpedo, bomber, plane, flight, aeroplane, airplane, vintage, flying, sea, beach, seagulls, featured work

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  • JRGarland
    JRGarland6 months ago

    Neat looking!!

  • I’m really pleased with the colors in this one. Glad you liked it too, thanks very much John, cheers.

    – Chris Lord

  • Edward Denyer
    Edward Denyer6 months ago

    Excellent Chris. – Ted

  • Hi Ted, thanks so much for that. Truly appreciated.

    – Chris Lord

  • RobynLee
    RobynLee5 months ago

  • Gosh darn! A nice surprise for the end of the year. What a great honor, I’m very happy and grateful, thank you very much RobynLee.

    – Chris Lord

  • deborah zaragoza
    deborah zaragoza4 months ago


    Excellent Image! 01/31/2012
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  • Thanks very much.

    – Chris Lord