The Obligatory "Look Ma! I'm on a plane!" vacation shot

[KatherineEmma]

I have a minor obsession with taking pictures out of plane windows, probably as a result of too many tedious transatlantic flights and a childlike fascination with the seeming improbability of being 32,000 feet up in the air in a big metal box. I've been grounded for some time now and I'm starting to miss the plane window perspective, so I'd like to see some of your aerial shots.

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[hitkaiser]

Gorgeous shots, I thought I was one of the only weirdos in the world doing that!

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[KatherineEmma]

I thought I was one of the only weirdos in the world doing that!

Amusingly it looks like you're living in my old home town (although I've been living in the States for four months now) so perhaps it's a Reading thing.

Leafing through your flickr pictures is making me vaguely homesick - glad to see the Peruvian panpipe blokes are still about!

[RainPacket]

Ah, alright. Here's mine... :)

http://static.flickr.com/103/307180577_c5d6e8a60e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/packet/307180577/)

[andy206uk]

Heres mine:

http://static.flickr.com/127/322341999_78196e42b4_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy206uk/322341999/) http://static.flickr.com/144/322343390_fc516b1a40_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy206uk/322343390/) http://static.flickr.com/136/322343125_a0e773a333_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy206uk/322343125/) http://static.flickr.com/130/322337767_a99f07f761_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy206uk/322337767/)

[RandomConnections]

I don't have any worthy of posting here, but with the advent of Google Earth, I've had fun trying to take a photo out the window of a plane, then match it up with the location in Google Earth.

In the interest of full disclosure, my success rate hasn't been very high.:rolleyes:

[mdwsta4]

don't have any real good ones, but here are two taken with a P&S about 2 years ago while leaving Boston
http://images12.fotki.com/v200/photos/5/51621/223476/DSC03673-vi.jpg

http://images9.fotki.com/v188/photos/5/51621/223476/DSC03688-vi.jpg

cheers

[KatherineEmma]

Wow. That's a great one Rachel. What mountain range is that?

I don't have any worthy of posting here, but with the advent of Google Earth, I've had fun trying to take a photo out the window of a plane, then match it up with the location in Google Earth.

In the interest of full disclosure, my success rate hasn't been very high.:rolleyes:

Hahah!

Andy - looks like you're on the very edge of space in that 3rd one. Insane.

These are great, guys. Thanks :)

[RainPacket]

Wow. That's a great one Rachel. What mountain range is that?

I really couldn't tell you. It was on the way back from Washington, DC, and I'd been up since 3am. I was barely awake enough to remember how to set the camera (as a long string of poorly-exposed out-the-window shots just before this one could attest), much less pay attention to the pilot... I only know it wasn't anywhere near enough to familiar mountains (i.e., the Cascades and Olympics, or Mt. Rainier) for my taste. ;)

I /think/ it was probably somewhere in the Rockies, given that we flew over mountains for something like half an hour straight. I got many different mountain shots, but that was by far my favorite.

[Griffin2020]

My best out the window shot was on a trans atlantic flight in either 86 or 87...I will have to see if I can find it and scan it in. The photo was of an American F-14 off of the right wing of the airliner, about 2.5-3 hours out of O'Hare enroute to London Gatwick.

[cfischer69]

Obligitory is right! I've been over the top of the world twice on Chicago-to-Beijing routes. Although desolate, I tried both trips to get usable "Hey, I'm flying north of the Artic Circle" shots. So far, no real winners. I did get a couple of interesting captures of far northern China and NE Russia. I'll have to dig around to find them.

[janesa13]

This was recently on Thanksgiving from above Seattle just before the snowstorm hit.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/311591443_b3170c2f50.jpg

[mikeboy]

I now have something to do while im on a plane!

had I thought about this 2 weeks ago when I spent 15 hours in one... Next flight, Im taking some pics.

[googlit]

I took this shot on a flight from Copenhagen to Oslo... it was so overcast that it was pretty much impossible to get any terrain shots, but it made for some great cloud pictures. I'm hoping that the weather will clear for at least one of my flights in the next couple days. :)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/373544645_f3a181b79b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/googlit/373544645)

[benttop]

I took this as we left Washington towards Mexico in November:

http://www.pbase.com/benttop/image/70942154/medium.jpg

Original Size Image here: http://www.pbase.com/benttop/image/70942154

[Ant]

here is mine....it isn't very good but meh.

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[juskatla]

I fly a lot for work, not often above the clouds, I'm hoping the subject matter in these photos make up for my ineptness. Dodging squalls, low pass for a look, oops the storm blew the dock away. Am I posting properly? Please comment, I learn fast, thanks

[ShepArt]

Googlit, did you get any from the return trip? This is mine from over Greenland.

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[googlit]

I got a whole bunch, but still have yet to go through them. you know me... :rolleyes:

[iujaz]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/271063624_4d4672fa6f_o.jpg

on my way from male' to singapore.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/271063626_95f654ad37.jpg

over singapore .

[photokunstler]

I think the idea is a wonderful one, KatherineEmma, and I have to admit I have to do it too -- I can't pass up the opportunity to point my lens out a dirty, or condensation-filled, window at altitude!

I have another confession - I have a collection of pretty bad "This is the first piece of land I saw when we flew into X" (flll in the blank - Japan, Ireland, Abaco...)

Here, if I post correctly (this is my very first post and very first upload) are two I liked.

The prop's spinner reflecting the plane on the way to Abaco, Bahamas.

And the Rocky Mountains, as we took off out of Vancouver last December, the pilot did NOT climb. I was a bit curious, a little worried (I am a private pilot, but haven't flown in a few decades.).

It turned out that the weather was so phenomenally gorgeous and clear that he had gotten permission to fly us low and just over the 49th parallel, the border of the US and Canada. And we stayed that low for almost an hour. It was a gift!

So, if I do this right, let's see if I can get these uploaded!
(Okay, looks like I did - so why are they so teeny?)

Best,
Patty

[piston9]

Flying over Salt Lake City - the Lake has some amazing patterns!

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[piston9]

Oh yeah, and the 'look ma, the plane has engines!'. Though I thought this shot was cool for some reason (no, there is no logical reason for it...)

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And of course, anyone ever tried to catch those amazing colours out of a plane??

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[bostonwolf]

My approach to Rome on my honeymoon in July 2005

You can see the lense reflected in the window

http://bostonwolf.smugmug.com/photos/63193933-M.jpg

[Sime™]

On the way into Coffs Harbour, Aus at christmas time...
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and then, back to Sydney...
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[chris]

i love all the shots i am just want to no how u all got nice shots out of a dirty plane window as i clean my windows at home and i can not get nice shot out of them

[Sime™]

I am thinking I was lucky with mine, it was a low alt flight, just up the coast from Sydney to Coffs harbour and back... and it had just rained as we boarded so maybe they got a bit of a wash. Usually I always try sit near the window and always have a camera with me...

[photokunstler]

i love all the shots i am just want to no how u all got nice shots out of a dirty plane window as i clean my windows at home and i can not get nice shot out of them

Sometimes they aren't too clean or clear!
This is a shot in Vancouver on our way to Tokyo, sitting on the ramp...

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[mishababy]

I actually have a couple of pics from my 2nd plane trip ever.
The first one is clouds somewhere over New Mexico. and the second one is the Pacific Ocean leaving LAX.

http://picasaweb.google.com/mishamichelle/Lax/photo?authkey=sIQdgHacfmo#4994055370903453714

http://picasaweb.google.com/mishamichelle/Lax/photo?authkey=sIQdgHacfmo#4994055340028526610

[jarrol]

Taken with my Nokia 3250 phone....

Flight from Brisbane to Cairns

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I believe this is Magnetic Island just of the Townsville coast

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[Teewinot]

Cool thread. I was pleasantly surprised to fly over Greenland on the way back from Switzerland last fall.

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[xhan]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/279302893_3b0bbbf7a5_o.jpg

[jenjen]

This is from that trip I took on the Mars Global Surveyor. Actually, it's somewhere en route to Austin, Texas.

[trishie]

Ok here's is a few of mine, there not the best in the world, but its fun to pull out your camera & take some pics when your flying. These were taken flying into fraser island of the qld, Aust coast. This is my first post of any image..im getting there, albeit slowly. Im hoping I have sized them right but apologies if incorrect.

[Selected Pixels]

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[oakwoodlott]

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flying home from Barbados

[melanie2457]

I hate that most of my flights are at night and over nothing but water... everyone's photos are beautiful! Makes me want to fly somewhere just to take pictures out the window.

[igor.yermak]

I took some pictures while flying from new york to florida but my plane window was dirty so it has a major dirt line going across it.

[jkurl11]

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[great]

Great photos. I've never was in a plane but I can't hardly wait the moment. I will go in my next vacation. :)