Continuing from a bird's perspective, this is a collection of "plane window shots".
Occupying a window seat on a plane with a camera in the lap, ideally in front of the wings meaning business class, waiting for the plane to make a turn before it goes through the cloud layer, makes one feel like an idiotic "All-of-Europe-in-a-Day" tourist next to the business guys hacking away on their notebooks. I guess, I feel stupid, but they are envious... But it is the easiest way to get aerial pictures short of renting a high-resolution camera drone.
Camera settings should be on a fast shutter-speed for obvious reasons and focus on manual - otherwise the camera will inevitably focus on some dirt or scratches on the window. Then, sometimes, if you are lucky with the weather, and if you have good light, if the pilot flies a steep curve in your favour soon after take-off or just before landing, and if you are quick to spot the image - many if's - , pictures can turn out quite pleasing.
So enjoy this Quick-and-Easy-Grand-Tour-Around-the-World from above!
Sicily from above
patches of olive groves in Sicily
Africa, the Okavango Delta, Botswana:
in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Boma in Kenya, Masai Mara
Tansania:
Australia:
in the Outback, Northern Territories
Salt Lake, Lake Amadeus
Kata Tjuta mountains with Uluru in the back
Uluru
The Great Barrier Reef:
UAE, Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Mosque:
Dubai:
dotty neighbours
The Palm, Dubai
fishing fleet, Dubai
The Himalaya and Mount Everest
Singapore
Hongkong
Storm clouds over Java, Indonesia
Iguacu Waterfalls, Brazil
London
Frankfurt, with the Taunus hills in the background
somewhere over Thuringia approaching Berlin
River Havel with the lakes of Brandenburg around Berlin and the TV tower in the back
Berlin
...and who is the photographer?
