About 25,000' between New York and DC. Contrast was boosted manually in PS, this is the 'angrier' of two alternative edits I made. Title is from "High Flight", a poem by WWII aviator John W. Magee.
Right about those plane windows, but I'll take breathable air over a good photo any day.
I'm looking forward to taking some aerial pictures once I get further along in my flight training. A little C-172 is never going to reach 25,000' (especially not in a thunderstorm) but some of the things I've seen from 3,000' have been breathtaking. Really liked your vintage aircraft pictures.
This can almost stand on its own, because of the variation in the clouds, an so it avoids my declaration of "beautiful background in search of a subject". It is almost impossible to get a really good shot out the window of a commercial jet. The engineers seem to concentrate on on little things like cabin pressurization and totally ignore the interests of passenger/photographers!
Yes, that blob above the water tank is a bird. At least we'll call it that and not a speck I forgot to clone out!
Thanks for the comments. I was taking pictures for most of the flight and this was the only one that really worked out.
Found out that the trick with shooting from a plane window is to sit ahead of the engines. If you're behind the engines then you will see heat haze from the exhaust along the bottom half of the window. It looks like distortions in the glass, but it's not.
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