March 28, 2010

The Buildup

As winter comes to an end, I invite all aviators who read this blog to consider taking a moment to snap a picture or two of some thunderstorms as they fly near/through/over them. This continued request comes second after the safe operation of the aircraft, of course!

I offer a few exposures of my past trip to and from Denver as mild inspiration.

Then over SYR...

I have flown mostly at night in the last few years, but I took advantage of jetBlue's new daytime flight back to Boston...

Here is a shot of the climb out heading east away from the front range.

Fuzzy clouds=Light chop.


There was a nice line of storms along the cold front moving over Indiana and Lake Michigan.


The seatbelt sign was off as we stayed well above the tops...

The skies cleared just in time for me to question "where the F%#^ is that!?" Oh, it's ice in Lake Erie....

It was hard to get a stable picture of the tip of Cayuga Lake and Ithaca in the moderate chop. It's always choppy here, just ask Air Canada...

And then the sun went down as we descended into a rainy evening in Boston....


Till next time...

DM

3 comments:

Jeff said...

Hey man! You got a shot of my house in that Ithaca photo! I keep flying jets through your area, one of these days I'll ask for DM.

Dan in ALB said...

Thanks for the overhead view of the greater Albany area! I think that it's always easier to tell where your are at night. The lights of the cities make the shape from your road atlas.

Of course, in these days of GPS dominance, no one will carry a road atlas any longer :-(

bklyneve said...

Beautiful pictures Dan. I am impressed with your photography.