Show us your best photos from 35,000 feet!

StewartR · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Do you ask for a window seat, even though it's the most cramped?
Do you check the aircraft configuration before you fly, so you know which seats are over the wings and which have views?
Do you work out which side of the plane will be away from the sun, so you don't have it in your eyes?
On a long-haul flight, do you plan which movies to watch - or even when to sleep - based on when you'll be passing over interesting terrain?

You do? OK, let's see the results. I'd like to see your best shots taken as a passenger on a regular commercial flight only. I've nothing against flight crew, sightseeing flights or air force personnel - but this thread is for shots that Joe Public can take through those tiny, scratched, dirty, semi-transparent panes of perspex.

Here are a couple of my favourites. We flew from London to Phoenix in 2004 and we came right over the Grand Canyon. These were taken with my old Minolta Dynax 7000i (first-generation autofocus SLR), Tamron 28-200mm lens, on Fuji ISO 200 print film. I've sharpened then up a bit, and in retrospect perhaps I should have scanned than with more DPI, but they are uncropped.

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neil_r · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Not quite 35k but from an aircraft…

Tsmith · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Somewhere over Nevada

Western Rim of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River but not 35K

Lightstream · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

AdamJL · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Wow Neil, those shots are great!

thetraveler · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Somewhere over the Southwestern USA on the a Northwest Airlines DC-10-30 [upgraded from a Boeing 757-300] on my return flight from Southeast Asia March 2006.

Lake Mead as seen from 39,500 feet from a Northwest Airlines DC-10-30.

Somewhere over the Deep Southwestern USA on the flight from Lost Angeles to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport [NWA DC-10-30].

Taken somewhere over the Mackenzie Mountains of Northwestern Canada on Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-400 service from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to Tokyo's Narita Airport in Japan.

On this fine morning we are on Lan Peru's Airbus 320-200 service from Lima to Cuzco, Peru which affords stunning scenes of the Andes Mountains.

markyb · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

nice shots, all of them
make the most of them, if the powers to be have there way, we wont be taking anything in to the cabin from now on

tigerjim · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

This is the coast of Greenland on a flight from Frankfurt to Atlanta.

Becca · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Over the Grand Canyon (seems to be a popular place to take photos!)

Over the Rocky Mountains (not sure where!)

Dorman · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

What an interesting idea for a thread. There's some great shots here, unfortunately I have none to add.

erk · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

I wish I had some pictures coming back from London on our way to San Francisco. This picture is from earlier this week, flying from Reno to Phoenix. I'll be flying back from Detroit to Phoenix in a few days, so hopefully I can grab some Grand Canyon shots (it was cloudy on the way over)

Tsmith · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

Heres one of Humphrey's Peak in Arizona

WxGuesser · 11th of August 2006 (Fri)

neil_r · 12th of August 2006 (Sat)

This is not a great picture but it is interesting to count the number of brickworks in such a small area (they are the tall chimneys) This was taken at the end of the dry season just before the monsoons started on a trip between Bangalore and Delhi.

Cleo199 · 12th of August 2006 (Sat)

somewhere over northern Canada (May 5, 2006)

Greenland, May 27th, 2006

11th of August 2006 (Fri)	#1
StewartR "your nose is too big" Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Maidenhead, UK Posts: 4,269 IMAGE EDITING OK	Show us your best photos from 35,000 feet! Do you ask for a window seat, even though it's the most cramped? Do you check the aircraft configuration before you fly, so you know which seats are over the wings and which have views? Do you work out which side of the plane will be away from the sun, so you don't have it in your eyes? On a long-haul flight, do you plan which movies to watch - or even when to sleep - based on when you'll be passing over interesting terrain? You do? OK, let's see the results. I'd like to see your best shots taken as a passenger on a regular commercial flight only. I've nothing against flight crew, sightseeing flights or air force personnel - but this thread is for shots that Joe Public can take through those tiny, scratched, dirty, semi-transparent panes of perspex. Here are a couple of my favourites. We flew from London to Phoenix in 2004 and we came right over the Grand Canyon. These were taken with my old Minolta Dynax 7000i (first-generation autofocus SLR), Tamron 28-200mm lens, on Fuji ISO 200 print film. I've sharpened then up a bit, and in retrospect perhaps I should have scanned than with more DPI, but they are uncropped. SIR-0279-12 enh x800.JPG SIR-0279-15 enh x800.JPG Last edited by StewartR : 25th of July 2007 (Wed) at 08:36.

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erk Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Southern Cascadia Posts: 223	Re: Show us your best photos from 35,000 feet! I wish I had some pictures coming back from London on our way to San Francisco. This picture is from earlier this week, flying from Reno to Phoenix. I'll be flying back from Detroit to Phoenix in a few days, so hopefully I can grab some Grand Canyon shots (it was cloudy on the way over) __________________ 5DII - T2i - 70-200 f/2.8L IS II - 24-70 f/2.8L - 50 f/1.4 - 100 f/2.8 Macro www.elindenphoto.com Last edited by erk : 11th of August 2006 (Fri) at 22:00.

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