Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
Above Eastern California. From above one can see old and new rivers and streams and their washes cutting through the desert, a view in time that would be difficult if not impossible on the ground.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Above Jamaica Bay, New York. Taking off south from JFK Airport we banked east just about to cross over Rockaway beach. Jamaica Bay was partially frozen and the ice and water made a beautiful pattern.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Above Nebraska. Three circular fields showing through a snow cover which makes them look like pre-historic markings on the earth brought out by a "snow rubbing." Circular or center pivot irrigation is a way of using a robot radial arm to water or irrigate large fields. It requires perfectly flat fields so that the arm [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Above Arizona. This crater was formed by a meteorite that hit earth about 50,000 years ago is in the Arizona desert east of Flagstaff.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jan 31st, 2007 No Comments »
We just took off from LAX and will eventually make the turn out over the Pacific to head east to New York. The cranes on the distant Long Beach shore are the ones in my image of Long Beach Harbor; we will turn south then east and fly back over those cranes in the next [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Jan 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Above Los Angeles. On a clear day, like today, the aerial approach to LAX provides a panoramic view of the sprawl that is Los Angeles. In the background are Burbank and the east end of the San Fernando Valley.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Jan 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Above New York City. We just took off from JFK and as we cleared the runway Manhattan erupted in afternoon, winter light. From this low angle, it’s hard to believe that those buildings are on an island and New Jersey is behind them.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Ideas on Dec 22nd, 2006 1 Comment »
Seat Guru gives you planes models, airlines and seat layouts so you can decide which seat is best on a particular plane. Very useful.
Source: Dale Allyn
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Dec 6th, 2006 4 Comments »
Above Nebraska. These fields would be interesting without snow as they seem to be assembled together like a parquet floor, but when you add a light dusting of snow it accentuates the relief like low light or a charcoal rubbing.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Dec 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
Above Utah (I think). I’ve seen this view before and it never ceases to amaze me. I can’t tell if it’s an escarpment or the remains of a glacier that left a backbone-like debris trail behind when it receded. Whatever it is, it sure looks like vertebrae and given that it runs north-south and is [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Dec 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Above Eastern California. In a striking example of human intervention, an aqueduct system (here exposed as a channel) runs parallel to an old stream-bed that has, during floods, overflowed onto the hillside below. No doubt that the man-made watercourse is used to move river water to irrigate fields. How far will we go to put [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Dec 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Above Eastern California. One of the many things I enjoy about looking out the window on airplanes is the evidence of interaction between humans and the landscape they inhabit. I find it entertaining to project "aerial social psychology" onto why some roads go straight and keep going straight right through mountains, while others take a [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Dec 4th, 2006 No Comments »
A lone freighter steaming north between Palos Verdes on the left and Santa Catalina Island on the right with the Pacific Ocean all around.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Sep 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Above The Great Lakes. The great thing about taking off from the east coast at 5:30 pm and flying west is that you’re flying into the sunset which means you get to follow it for a while. Here we’re flying at 38,000 feet and there are numerous layers of clouds, each different and each showing [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Gallery: Crop Circles: “Since showing up in English wheat fields 30 years ago, crop circles have become increasingly beautiful and intricate.”
(Source Wired News: Top Stories.)
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jul 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Above New Jersey. Our flight hit the east coast about halfway down the New Jersey shore, traveled a few miles out over the Atlantic and then turned north toward Long Island and Kennedy Airport.
The heat haze made photography difficult but the contrast on the few fully-formed clouds in the haze was actually quite beautiful and [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jul 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Over the Midwest, US. Small clouds low to the ground in the mid-afternoon cast wonderful shadows which, seen from above make cloud photographs much more interesting. Over the years that I’ve been flying and looking out the window I’ve noticed that clouds seem to follow natural changes in the landscape: mountains, hills, and in this [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 14th, 2006 No Comments »
djill on flickr has a fantastic set of aerials of the salt marshes in San Francisco Bay: Salt Water and Algae. I have to say I generally shy away from highly manipulated images like this but those form are crying out to be treated in a painterly way. I think djill has done it perfectly.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Lo2006 on flickr took an amazing shot of crossing above another plane over the North Atlantic. Wow.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 1st, 2006 2 Comments »
Above Utah. When looked at abstractly the “fingers” on the edge of this offset in geography remind me of the coast of Maine where rivers empty out into the ocean and make for a jagged shoreline. This jagged edge is similar in that water and erosion over time made it what it is. In fact, [...]
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