Today’s photo comes courtesy of a recent business trip to New Orleans. I took quite a few pictures while I was in town, but I think some of the pictures I took on the flight home are even better than the city pictures. Here’s one of my favorites:
We were fortunate in that there was a very distinct cutoff to the top of the cloud deck on our way home. From our cruising altitude high above, the cloud deck took on the look of a nearly solid surface. Here and there, a break in the clouds (we were nearing sunset, so these were invariably dark breaks in the clouds) looked much like a bay or inlet. With a bit of luck, you could see surface features in the breaks — here, you can see a river, highlighted by reflections of the bottom of the cloud deck.
In an odd coincidence, I was feeling a bit beat down after my trip, so I sprung for the $40 upgrade (this was on United, mind you) to get an exit row seat. I wound up at the window, with the seat next to me vacant. So by virtue of my tired state I wound up with lots of elbow room for messing with my camera, swapping lenses back and forth, etc.
It was the best $40 investment I’ve made in a long time…
Update: you can also see this image on Flickr.
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