Weekend Photos: Airplane photography

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My recent trip to Tucson gave me two flights with some amazing photo opportunities. I am definitely that person who has the window shade up and my face plastered to the glass looking at everything, and this time it was truly rewarding.

On the way down, I left under a cloud cover, but we quickly rose above it, and did about as close a fly-by of Mt. Rainier as I've ever done.

As we passed beyond Rainier, I got to look over at some of the mountains through which I hiked last summer. Then we flew almost directly over Mt. Adams.

At this point, we were angling well to the east, and as I was on the east side of the plane, the rest of the Cascade volcanoes were out of sight to me. I trust some of the people on the west side were looking at them. Meanwhile, we passed over the Columbia River. Pretty sure that's the Highway 97 bridge, which we crossed back at the beginning of December on our way home from California.

 A fairly long period of unidentifiable eastern Oregon, and Nevada followed, before I saw we were crossing above Cedar City, Utah, and I could spot Cedar Breaks National Monument. That cued me to keep an eye out, and soon we were crossing the Grand Canyon. I can't tell just where we crossed over, but did get a glimpse of the river way down there.


 
 
On the way back to the airport in Tucson after my lovely time in the sun (the light! oh, my, the light!), we detoured past the USAF airplane "boneyard," where hundreds, maybe thousands, of obsolete aircraft are parked in neat rows. From the road you can get only a tiny sense of how many there are.
 



Finally, to finish my airplane fun, my flight home was not only 2/3 empty (!), but we had the most amazing sunset much of the way. Views into the Grand Canyon were more limited this time, though it was still daylight. That was partly because I was looking west into the sun, and partly because what was visible was definitely the western end, which isn't as striking.

Then the sun began to set. I know much of the color was due to the LA fires, but the beauty remains.

Never saw the clouds quite like this, lit from below.


Moving up into Oregon, we flew along the east side of the Cascades. I had chosen my seat with this in mind!

Pretty sure we have the Three Sisters and Mt. Jefferson, with Hood at the far right.

Mt. Hood.


And, finally, approaching Seattle well after sunset but with that bright line still on the horizon from where we were, Mt. Rainier greeted us, this time wearing a jaunty cap!

Hope you enjoyed these shots! By next week I hope to have either more photos of my hikes and adventures around Tucson, or maybe even a new bit of flash fiction! Thanks for reading.


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