Airplane on

Red, yard work, mushrooms.

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I open the window shade, lean over to my daughter and ask if she can see the mountain, “I can Daddy!” It’s the first flight she might remember and it’s just fantastic to see her enthusiasm for “flying taller than Daddy.”

shasta and engine

I don’t actually enjoy flying, I’d rather take a train, but since I need to fly on occasion I’m making the best of it. Virgin America’s engines are an awesome red – really striking against the blues and whites in the sky.

I'm still here.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Today marks the one year anniversary of I’m not here! A year ago I was returning from a trip to Israel, a year later I’m returning from a trip to California.

I’ve been requesting the window seat recently to take photos out the window.

sunset, adams, helens

Mt St. Helens in the foreground and Mt Adams in the background. I love the light on the engine.

rainier

Mt Rainier peaking through the clouds in the setting sun.

Planes, clouds, mountains.

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Some time ago I read a review about Window Seat and it stuck in my head. I was on a plane this morning and decided to try my hand.

I was fortunate to get a window (I generally choose an aisle) or this would have been a bit more difficult. Of course the wing over which I sat interfered with a clear, wide shot but the wing does help with the composition. At one point, while I was getting ready to shoot, we hit some severe turbulence which made the chop shooting the eagles feel placid. The photos aren’t geocoded, bummer – it would have been cool to set the exif altitude data. The photos also required some significant post-processing to remove the over-saturated blues.