Conditions aren’t always right—too much cloud, not enough sun, not the right scene on the ground—but pictures from the air can offer dramatic views. One recent blog on TravelGumbo featured an amazing series of views of ice-bound Greenland from six miles up.
The picture above, and those in the slideshow below show how a landscape of fields, roads and villages can become almost completely abstract until close inspection reveals the pieces and the patterns. All but the last, with the green triangle, were taken shortly before landing on a 2009 flight from Barcelona to Madrid; the other was almost immediately after take-off from Prague in 2003.
I’ve spent some time working out “best tricks” for airplane window shots, but all the ones I’ve found and then some are in this article by Darren Rowse on a digital photography site.
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