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  1. Jedi

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    #1 Jedi, Feb 10, 2011
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    I fly quite a lot for business... and ever since I started in the mid 90s, I've ALWAYS
    preferred a window seat. Two reasons: I never get up during a flight, whereas
    everyone else does. So if I'm in a window seat, I never have to move to let others out!

    Secondly, the view! For 65,000 years of human evolution, flying was only a dream.
    Nowadays most folks take it for granted. Not me - despite having flown hundreds of
    thousands of miles, it still awes me to look OUT.

    So here's my collection of "in flight" photos over the last few years, looking out
    of airplane windows. I always have a decent pocket camera on me to capture some
    of the amazing beauty you can only see from the air.

    Does anyone else have "out the window" shots from aircraft? Post them here!

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    #2 MarkPDX, Feb 10, 2011
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    Flying commercially I hardly every bother taking pictures because the windows distort the image so badly..... flying for work I have taken tens of thousands of pics.

    Here is one that I took a couple years ago of the Burj hotel and Palm island in Dubai.....
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    #5 Jedi, Feb 10, 2011
    AWESOME photos Mark... I really like the Dubai shot... what do you fly?

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    #7 blackwood, Feb 10, 2011

    Your shot of diamond head and waikiki is really nice!
     
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    #9 S Brake, Feb 10, 2011
    I'll post some Salt Lake shots tomorrow when I'm at my work computer.
     
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    #10 kdf398, Feb 10, 2011
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    Here is a recent photo of the iced-over Arctic Ocean near Baffin Island in Northern Canada.
    I know it is not much to look at now, but this is the future Northwest Passage! :)
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    #11 nthfinity, Feb 10, 2011
    excellent thread!

    Before I was an avid photog, with a camera side arm at almost all times... I was on a window seat on a 747 from Amsterdam to Chicago. After an hour, it was getting pretty lame looking at ice, or glaciers (ice). So I didn't pay attention again for another 6 hours. Suddenly, I look down and realize I know EXACTLY where I am... directly above my mom's house, and in view of my Grandparents property on Lake Charlevoix. The view was spectacular. Before the view disappeared, I went to look for my camera in carry-on.

    ... unfortunately, it wasn't there :(

    Someday, I'll be on that same flight, and print that picture HUGE!
     
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    #12 willcrook, Feb 11, 2011
    beautiful photos :) !
     
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    #13 Seth, Feb 11, 2011
    wow great pics!

    Jedi what mountain is that in your 3rd pic?
     
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    #14 ExoticSpotter, Feb 11, 2011
    Very cool pictures here, thanks for posting.
     
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    #15 UroTrash, Feb 11, 2011
    I hope that gets on Google Earth! LOL


    BTW, all you guys: great pics. I've tried to take pics out plane windows but they are always crap.
     
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    #16 UroTrash, Feb 11, 2011
    BTW, when I toured the space shuttle place (what ever they call it now) I think they said that assembly building (in the pic above) is the largest building on earth by volume, anyone know?
     
  17. Jedi

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    #17 Jedi, Feb 11, 2011
    Thanks Seth!

    The first mountain is Mt. Rainier - shot taken right after takeoff out
    of Seattle, heading East.

    The second mountain is the famous Mt. St. Helens volcano that blew
    in May of 1980 - you can see the whole North side (right) blown off.

    Jedi
     
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    #19 MarkPDX, Feb 11, 2011
    I can't remember when GT mowed the FChat in the field but the last Google Earth imagery from the area is 4 September 10 and I took some pictures of it in October. In any case it has probably looks a bit worn down.... and there may have been a small grass fire when I was shooting 26.5mm smoke rounds a few weeks back :)
     
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    #20 Jedi, Feb 11, 2011
    I always enjoy flying in and out of SLC for all those strange pools of
    multi-colored stuff. I probably don't want to know what is in all those ponds... :eek:

    But it sure looks cool from the air

    Jedi
     
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    #23 Jedi, Feb 11, 2011
    STUNNING!!!!
     
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    #25 teak360, Feb 11, 2011
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    Thanks. This one is a plume of smoke from California fires a few years ago. Just North of the LA basin.
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