Sunset in the Sky
July 1995 | ||
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| You can tell that a sunset is really great, when even those that vehemently try to show off with the amount of travelling they have to do, move to the free seats in the plane and stare out of the windows like twelve-year olds on their first plane-trip. | ||
Finally from the front
11 September 2000 | ||
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| Shot of a 747 engine from the front - upgraded with miles.... | ||
A fish view of the upper cabin
5 July 2001 | ||
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| How a fish would see the upper cabin..... | ||
Comfy in the upper cabin
10 July 2001 | ||
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| This is how I made myself feel cozy up in the upper cabin..... Laptop, Wine and Travel screen..... | ||
I could live like that...
10 July 2001 | ||
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| Up in Lufthansa IFC with enough legroom for Dennis Rodman wearing high-heels. Two flight attendants looking after four passenger, I wore shorts that day, so they checked my boarding pass three times.... | ||
Lufthansa IFC Rose
10 July 2001 | ||
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| They give you a rose up there and you can put it into an extra holder in your seat.... And watch the humidity of the plane take its toll over the 12 hours flying time.... | ||
Last flight before everything changed....
10 September 2001 | ||
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| Originally I was going to fly in the morning on the 11th, but that turned out to be too early, so I took a plane the night before. The plane was almost empty, it was such a pleasant quiet trip.... The next morning I woke up and got to the lobby of the hotel where people were crowded around televisions showing CNN.... My body was shaking and I thought I was having a nightmare and waiting to wake up.... | ||
Parking spot
22 November 2001 | ||
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| The picture doesn't do the atmosphere of this place justice. I have never seen so many planes.... This is just a small part of the overall area in which a hundred planes were parked, now not needed due to the airlines having cut back their schedules. Planes from KLM, Continental, Lufthansa, etc.... Very eerie... | ||
Phase 1: JOURNEY
7 May 2002 | ||
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| A quick stop at Mojave, where I had been half a year earlier.... Grey Spider, Golden Eagle and Pissnelke.... | ||
A second later....
7 May 2002 | ||
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| ...a roar went through the air and a fighterjet almost blew us to the ground.... if the camera had gone of then, this is what it would have looked like.... | ||
Let me in....
24 July 2002 | ||
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| Bright, hot light wanting to radiate through the window into the airplane.... | ||
Squashed
27 July 2002 | ||
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| Quite a difference from the flight three days prior to this one that took me back to Europe.... | ||
How to spend your time when bored
27 July 2002 | ||
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| Play with the mirrors in the lavatory and shoot photos of a group of Julians.... | ||
Planes circling over LA
6 October 2002 | ||
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| Visible as little white stripes over LA in the distance waiting to land at LAX.... | ||
MUC Sunset
1 November 2003 | ||
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| As my conference in NYC got postponed I got the chance to visit Munich for a DVB meeting. This was the sunset that awaited me at Munich airport... | ||
More MUC airport sunset
1 November 2003 | ||
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| Great setting and colours... What a shame it had to be taken through a glass window.... | ||
Ray of Light
9 June 2004 | ||
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| During the sunset, catching an airplane... | ||
Strange rainbow
24 June 2004 | ||
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| Whenever I looked outside of the window, I would see this rainbow ring... Here you see the shadow of our plane on the clouds below surrounded by it... | ||
Mount Hood
24 June 2004 | ||
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| Of Oregon... | ||
Mount St.Helens
24 June 2004 | ||
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| I guess it's Mount Adams in the background? | ||
Mount St.Helens and Mount Adams
24 June 2004 | ||
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| Great photo! Was well worth the 30K miles spent on the upgrade so I sit in front of the engines... | ||
Mount Rainier
24 June 2004 | ||
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| Nice clouds.... | ||
Mount Rainier
24 June 2004 | ||
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| Did I say that it is my favourite mountain? | ||
Canadian Landscape
24 June 2004 | ||
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| Lakes and Rivers... | ||
Dani
25 May 2005 | ||
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| Sleeping on our flight to New York... | ||
Heaven is....
25 May 2005 | ||
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| ...playing World of Warcraft on Lufthansa's FlyNet in Business Class. Before that I used Skype for two hours... Great broadband experience, blazingly fast! | ||
More Glory
1 February 2007 | ||
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| This is my fourth time to see a Glory and my second time to take a photograph of it. | ||
Glory above the wing
1 February 2007 | ||
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| I was trying to explain to my seat neighbour this phenomena. He was totally uninterested. | ||
Another view...
1 February 2007 | ||
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| ...some of these photos have had their contrast increased. | ||
Perfect Blue - 1
28 March 2007 | ||
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| On the flight to Osaka after a free upgrade, I had the best seat for photography - first seat row window with the windows already pitched a bit further and in front of the engines of course. | ||
Perfect Blue - 2
28 March 2007 | ||
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| I loved the deep and tranquil blue. Would love to translate it into a painting. | ||
Perfect Blue - 3
28 March 2007 | ||
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| I love that one... | ||
Perfect Blue - 4
28 March 2007 | ||
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| Getting brighter... | ||
Perfect Blue - 5
28 March 2007 | ||
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| And a couple of hours later we landed. | ||
Flew through a storm....
4 September 2007 | ||
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| ...on the flight home.... | ||
Emerging from the rain....
4 September 2007 | ||
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| Even a spot of blue sky visible... | ||
Glory
2 April 2008 | ||
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| Yay! Another glory! | ||
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muralicoimbatore / Saturday, 7th May 2005 | ||
simply superb | ||
Daniel Schreitzmannsunnyboy747@juno.com / Thursday, 8th July 2004 | ||
I am a German airplane lover. I love to fly,and I definately love those pictures.GO LUFTHANSA! i have never flown first class, but those pictures make me want to do so. | ||
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