The main tricks with shooting out plane windows are 1) be on the shady side of the plane, and 2) be lucky enough to have a window that isn’t too scratched up.

that said, however, I’ve had some great shots through some fairly bad windows. And the best of these shots of the San Gabriel Mountains while flying into Los Angeles were shot through a semi-bad window in the back of a plane, looking over a wing, with the sun shining in. So ya never know.

And yeah, photoshop does help.

You aerial shots have made me start paying a bit more camera-attention out the windows, now. I have some stuff in archive around here and haven’t begun sorting through it, but I think I’m going to get a little more busy during the ride from now on.

Great stuff.

I wish I had a laptop with the horsepower and disk space to allow me to shoot in RAW and do non-destructive editing. Alas, I don’t. Not yet, anyway. (The laptop in this case is a 3-year-old 17″ PowerBook. My other one is a Linux ThinkPad with a hardware problem.) Otherwise I’d just put up the original and let you see (and work with) exactly what the camera saw.

Is that how it looked to your naked eye when you shot it?

I was going to do a snarky comment like : but but but Al Gore said it was melting

Took me back to some flight’s I’ve had
Summer, twilight all night over the artic

Been busy gotta catch up on your stuff
Ciao
Chip