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Above the Clouds
By btruxell
September 24th, 2009
I snapped this while flying back home from New York City. I was happy that I had my camera on the plane with me to capture this.
Comments from the Community
Posted By: Se7en
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago

I really like the "Smithfield Street Bridge Lights" photo on your flickr page. Any plans to submit it to IFL??
Posted By: lerch84
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Nice shot! I did some photos from a plane not a long ago but clouds and sky were not so intense as these.
Posted By: hanoilulu
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Did you take this from behind a window? How come there isn't even a single trace of marks on the window?
Posted By: sypherin
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: Lorne R
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: lumixmtb
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Nice!
But I have the same question. How did you manage to take this picture without any window artifacts?
But I have the same question. How did you manage to take this picture without any window artifacts?
Posted By: btruxell
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Thank you all for the great comments! This is too, one of my favorite images that I have done.
Se7en- I will indeed upload "Smithfield Street Bridge Lights" to interfacelift. I am glad you like it.
hanoilulu & lumixmtb- Good question! And I have been asking the same myself! I really do not know how that happened! Guess I was lucky. The windows were a mess! I clone stamped just a few noticeable spots out, but as for the rest, I am really not sure.
Thanks again everyone!
Se7en- I will indeed upload "Smithfield Street Bridge Lights" to interfacelift. I am glad you like it.
hanoilulu & lumixmtb- Good question! And I have been asking the same myself! I really do not know how that happened! Guess I was lucky. The windows were a mess! I clone stamped just a few noticeable spots out, but as for the rest, I am really not sure.
Thanks again everyone!
Posted By: Kris Sheresteboff
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: Beginning
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: Bojan Marsetich
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: 303artwork.com
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
u were lucky not to have scratches on the window. i got some bad ass pics too because i used to travel between europe and caribbean all the time but usually the windows suck.
Posted By: Mac Man
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: mrshock13
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: PhotoOp
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Really nice work. I downloaded this as my desktop background at work. The clouds look like dirty cotton balls!
Posted By: T
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Instant wallpaper! Fantastic picture indeed.
I took a similar shot over Greenland many years ago on my very first digital camera - sadly only at 640x480 resolution, in the days when that was just about enough! It's on my website at tonywhite.com - picture 16 in the slideshow if anyone cares! I had to play around with the contrast and the levels though because, as has been mentioned, airplane windows are usually rather opaque rather than clear, and one can get quite a lot of reflected glare. I was lucky - Greenland was cloud free on my occasion and I got a fantastic shot of a glacier from above and even the curvature of the horizon. One day I shall be back on that trip with a decent camera to hand and a window seat!
I took a similar shot over Greenland many years ago on my very first digital camera - sadly only at 640x480 resolution, in the days when that was just about enough! It's on my website at tonywhite.com - picture 16 in the slideshow if anyone cares! I had to play around with the contrast and the levels though because, as has been mentioned, airplane windows are usually rather opaque rather than clear, and one can get quite a lot of reflected glare. I was lucky - Greenland was cloud free on my occasion and I got a fantastic shot of a glacier from above and even the curvature of the horizon. One day I shall be back on that trip with a decent camera to hand and a window seat!
Posted By: TheReal7
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Excellent shot. I voted for this in the loupe. Airplane windows can be nasty but sometimes you get lucky and get a fairly clear window. I got lucky flying to Mexico in '08: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/_inc/vote.php?id=7265&sort=rating&artist_id=12031&page=1
Posted By: slashbomb123
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: Kris Sheresteboff
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: NateFox
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
It's a truly amazing shot. There is nothing at all about it that would suggest it was taken from behind a window. Bravo.
Posted By: btruxell
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks all! I am really glad you all enjoy. I will have to see what else I can dig up to post on interfacelift. Thanks again!
Posted By: Xinthose
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: bleuwave
about 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted By: jrm125
about 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Smithfield Street is fantastic! Makes me miss Pittsburgh. Thanks for this up and the great Flickr set.
Posted By: T
about 5 months, 2 weeks ago
"Please do post the original."
The pic on my site pretty much IS the original (notwithstanding the watermark). It was my first (cheap) digicam: in 1999 you didn't get a very good resolution back then so, sorry, but I can't make that particular picture any better! (Much as I wish I could - there's a lot of pictures I took that trip - like the red leaf in the same gallery - that I really wish I had larger versions of. Some of them I really want to frame!)
The pic on my site pretty much IS the original (notwithstanding the watermark). It was my first (cheap) digicam: in 1999 you didn't get a very good resolution back then so, sorry, but I can't make that particular picture any better! (Much as I wish I could - there's a lot of pictures I took that trip - like the red leaf in the same gallery - that I really wish I had larger versions of. Some of them I really want to frame!)
Posted By: Travis Lair
about 5 months, 1 week ago
This is definitely one of my favorite images on IFL. I feel like I am floating over the world while sitting at my desk. Thanks for the great post!
Posted By: Hees
about 4 months, 4 weeks ago
This has been on my desktop for a couple of weeks now and I enjoy it still. Maybe because it is an unusual picture and point of view. "So this is how it looks up there"... ;)
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