Project 365, Day 97. Up in the air....

Finally.

No, finally I'm working and in Africa, not finally a new blog post. I know everyone is enjoying the pictures as well as the commentary, but have you ever tried to keep a blog updated from 30,000 feet or western Africa?

I didn't think so. So quit yer bitching.

There's a photographer. I don't like her style. It's just not my thing. She's a big muckity-muck for Adobe who makes Lightroom and Photoshop, which are two of the editing programs I use and she's brilliant when it comes to that stuff. I just don't dig her photography.

But she travels a shitload. (Even more than I do) She had this idea to take pictures out of the plane window on her travels. Now, that I think is a great idea, I have seen some cool shit from the window of an airplane, clouds, sunsets, sunrises, major cities by night, things you just don't see on a regular basis.

She wrote a book about the topic along with her photos. She seems to have deviated away from her normal style, so it's actually not a bad read.

Honestly, I was disappointed to see someone had already done this, as I had had the same idea while I was working in Afghanistan. Of course, I was even more bummed to see who it was by, so it goes.






(As always, when I post more than one shot for the day, I leave it up to Emily to pick which will be the Shot of the Day.)

These were shot on the flight from Denver to Washington DC. It was almost midnight when we left DC and I try to be unconscious for as long as possible during overseas flights, so I missed the sunrise.

The big ol purple blotch in the second one is from the combination of my polarizer and the light refracting through the plane's double windows. I'm not quite smart enough to know how to fix that in post. I needed the filter to get the deep blue sky. The third one is pretty much straight from the camera, I liked the colors and how it turned out. Only did a bit of sharpening and noise reduction to it.

The windows in the plane from Accra to Takoradi were...not clean enough to shoot out of, and the cloud cover would not have permitted good shots anyway.

I just wish I'd started doing this sooner.

Music today:
Love in an Elevator by Aerosmith
Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton
On Fire by Van Halen
Better Than You by Metallica
On Turning Away by Pink Floyd (Live)
I Want To Break Free by Queen
I'll Fall In Love Again by Sammy Hagar
Draw the Line by Aerosmith
Foolin' by Def Leppard
(From about here on out, the music was just playing while pics were uploading. The internet is ssssllooooowwww here. But what do you want? It's Ghana)
The Confessor by Joe Walsh
I Lost on Jeopardy by Weird Al
Highway to Hell by AC/DC (Live)
The Call of Ktulu by Metallica (Live)