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Old Mar 20, 2009, 5:12 am
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Chicago on approch to ORD.
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Old Mar 20, 2009, 4:32 pm
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great shots guys.....keep them coming!
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Old Mar 21, 2009, 12:02 am
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First time i lurk outside the AAdvantage Forum. Yep, i took this some years ago.
Why i love flying:



This is flying over the Orinoco River.
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Old Mar 21, 2009, 12:40 am
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Wow. Now that's some awesome colors and composition!

I think I'll hold off posting one of the crappy iPhone pics (I left my camera in the rental car...though it will be returned!) until I'm not competing with such awesomeness.

Then again, pretty much every photo posted in this thread is equally awesome...

I do have to post mine before vysean beats me with his virtually identical (but better quality) shot! Of course, my shot from 1F includes the engine and wing, whereas his shot from 27F probably doesn't...
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Old Mar 21, 2009, 1:02 am
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Originally Posted by mvtm
This is flying over the Orinoco River.
Very cool!
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Old Mar 21, 2009, 4:03 pm
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The Dome, London



Mouth of the Irrawaddy

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Old Mar 21, 2009, 4:13 pm
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Pretty high up on a BA flight from VCE-LGW

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Old Mar 21, 2009, 5:00 pm
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Originally Posted by jackal
Wow. Now that's some awesome colors and composition!

I think I'll hold off posting one of the crappy iPhone pics (I left my camera in the rental car...though it will be returned!) until I'm not competing with such awesomeness.

Then again, pretty much every photo posted in this thread is equally awesome...

I do have to post mine before vysean beats me with his virtually identical (but better quality) shot! Of course, my shot from 1F includes the engine and wing, whereas his shot from 27F probably doesn't...
Thank You!
I've taken quite a collection,but of above all. That would be my awesomenest picture. Come on,post your iPhone pics! I am an iPhone user too.

Originally Posted by scoow
Very cool!
It definitely is.ty ^

Wow i've been to London several times and never have noticed that view! Great work SQ.

Well, i have many many pics that i would like to share.I'll post them slowly and by parts. Here is another wing one.It's a pano.. if its too huge, then let me know.

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Old Mar 21, 2009, 9:49 pm
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Thank You!
I've taken quite a collection,but of above all. That would be my awesomenest picture. Come on,post your iPhone pics! I am an iPhone user too.
Oh, all right, if you insist...



Could use some work, but remember that this is a raw iPhone photo that hasn't been processed in any way! The mountain in the middle is (obviously) Mt. McKinley (known locally as Denali); the slightly smaller one to the left is Mt. Foraker.

I spent the entire flight absolutely plastered to the window (even though I'm intimately familiar with the territory we were flying over). Seeing such familiar sights (which never bore me from the ground) from a different perspective is truly fascinating to me, so I think this just about captures why I love flying in an image.

I do have some great pictures I picked up with my regular camera on my recent excursion to Southeast Asia and Australia, but they're all sitting on my external hard drive now without a working computer with which to sort through and find them. I'll have a few more to post when I can get around to solving that problem.
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Old Mar 22, 2009, 4:56 am
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One of my best pics from above must be this one:



That's the kind of view you like to start off a long day of travel with.

-A
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Old Mar 23, 2009, 12:06 pm
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From my MEX-EZE flight after crossing the Andes

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Old Mar 24, 2009, 12:39 pm
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I've been trying some night photography from plane windows. Not sure where this one is from, it's somewhere between PHL-FLL. The light outlining the water is from the moon.

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Old Mar 24, 2009, 1:09 pm
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It's the best part about this job...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyforfun/2824282566/

Super high altitude (300,000 feet) noctilucent clouds.
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Old Mar 27, 2009, 8:04 pm
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Why I like flying????

See the Blackberry? Notice the screen is blank? At 30,000 plus feet, no one can reach you. Kick back your heels. Plug in the IPOD. Read a long overdue book. Pure peace. Absolute nirvana. Escapism at its best

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Old Apr 1, 2009, 3:07 am
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Two situations where I wish I had my camera but it just happened so fast.

- Recent trans continental flight in USA I saw a plane cross right below us. It must have been around 3-4000 ft below but it was actually quite scary how perfectly we met. At the exact time we crossed each other. It caught my eye around 15 seconds before but wasn't enough time to get my camera out. Beautiful and yet scary sight.

- My flight a few days ago seemed to linger for a good 15-20 seconds at the point where it went above the clouds. Perfect clear day and the clouds seemed to go on and on. Wish I could have taken a photo. It was an amazing sight.
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