On the return leg of our recent Hawaii vacation, I was on a red-eye flight — great if you can figure out how to sleep on a plane, not so great if you’re tall enough that you’re essentially shoe-horned into your coach-class seat (thanks, United!). At least my lack of sleep meant I was awake to see the sunrise as we flew east over the Rockies:
I liked the combination of sunburst above and dark land / city lights below. After some poking around, I’m pretty sure those are the lights of Provo, Utah in the distance…

December 14th, 2009 at 17:48
i’m pretty tall too and hate cramped plane seats, but i still have fun gazing out at the window looking at scenes like this.. i really like the details you captured here.. nice work!