Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Above Utah. The rounded edges of this river canyon coupled with the red, ferrous earth tones of the rock remind me of working with clay with a wire loop tool. One can scoop out a semi-circular shaped gouge with such a tool in a matter of seconds. This river took millions of years to scoop [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on May 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Above New Mexico. The color of seemingly arid desert is breathtaking. At this altitude all you have to do is keep the window shade open as well as your eyes and you can see an “art” show like no other.
Posted in Aerial Photography on May 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Above San Bernardino, California.
This agricultural “strip” valley seems to sit between two large stretches of desert. Without the river on the western side of the valley I doubt these fields could exist. Rivers have influenced much of the settlement and development of the world, this is just a micro example of it.
Posted in Aerial Photography on May 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Above San Bernardino, California. On initial approach into LAX we banked hard over a housing development. Each of the grid squares looks like a self-contained neighborhood and each neighborhood has similar street patterns. One can even see the future street patterns mapped out on the developments just being laid out. I realize this is common [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on May 25th, 2006 7 Comments »
These fields seem to be slowly eroding away into barren wasteland. At 30,000 feet one can more easily see geographic transitions like this and it’s one of the reasons I find flying so enjoyable.
Note: there was ice on the window and you can see it in the bottom of the image. Also, I bumped up [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on May 24th, 2006 2 Comments »
The scars from the movement of water are probably not apparent on the ground but from 30,000 feet they stand out readily. Larger arteries divide up into smaller branches and empty into one, large wash in the middle. The word wash seems appropriate given that water was involved and is involved in the watercolor painting [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 31st, 2006 2 Comments »
Flying east to west across Los Angeles, California and about to land at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). I’m pretty sure this is Interstate 5 running north-south crossing one of the many other smaller freeways in Los Angeles.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
I took numerous pictures on my way back from California. None turned out (including this one). Why? I’m not completely sure but the sun was a problem.
Flying from NY to LA one essentially goes diagonally across the country, northeast to southwest. Seasonal considerations aside (sun path changes summer to winter) sitting on the side of [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Flying east to west over the middle of Lake Michigan. Chicago is just off the right edge of this image (in clouds or I’d have shot it).
We were cruising at about 35,000 feet which means those clouds were quite low as we’re a long way above them.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Flying west over Long Island Sound, Queens on the left, Brooklyn beyond, Verrazano Narrows Bridge Connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island and Manhattan’s on the right with the Hudson river running down its west side. The other side of the river is New Jersey.
The bridge at the bottom of the image is the Whitestone Bridge connecting [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Just took off from JFK (runway heading south) and we were banking east over Far Rockaway and Rockaway beach. Jamaica Bay on the left, the Atlantic Ocean on the right. We continued south over the Atlantic and then turned west where I had a nice view down the length of Manhattan. I took so many [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 15th, 2006 2 Comments »
Flying east to west over the western front of the Rocky Mountains as the sun goes down in the west.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Some wrinkly relief in what is otherwise a flat and barren desert area in Nevada (I think).
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Somewhere over “the middle” (maybe Nevada or Utah) was this nice run of snow-capped mountains. Scenes like this somehow transcend their scale and look unreal. The weird thing is, most of the western US looks something like this: unreal.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Feb 14th, 2006 No Comments »
On our initial descent into San Jose we passed over some fog-laden hills with setting sun making for nice contrast.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 14th, 2006 No Comments »
I had the pleasure of sitting next to a a professional musician on this flight so didn’t take many pictures, preferring instead to talk about how the internet is affecting his business (positively). But, the sunset over northern Michigan was beautiful and so was the wing of our 737.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Coming back from California we flew past Chicago, turned over Lake Michigan and landed heading west on the same runway we had coming from the east. As we closed in on the runway I took some more shots of the hazy Chicago skyline looking east. An amazing number or roads and tracks lead into the [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Feb 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
Another day, another trip to California. This time with a stop at Chicago O’hare Airport.
I always love the eastern approach to this airport over Lake Michigan (sit on the left side of the plane): initial descent over western Michigan, you can see northern Indiana at the south end of the lake, and then the eastern [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Resources on Jan 27th, 2006 18 Comments »
A photographer up on flickr asked me how I get such nice images out of plane windows. Here’s the answer I just gave her:
1. Know the kind of plane you’re flying so you can choose a seat relative to the wing. Generally, these days most of us “plebes” sit in coach which means either over [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Jan 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Flying west to east across Long Island, New York, looking north.
You can see JFK Airport clearly in the center. Our approach took us straight out over the Atlantic, then we took a wide left (northeast) turn, then another left turn to face west and we landed on the far runway. Our approach took us over [...]
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