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elementalist — Unnatural High
Published: 2006-01-16 19:12:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 781; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 49
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Yes, I took this picture. Flying back from Europe we must have been flying VERY high because I've never seen the sky so dark above us. And the sad part was that almost everyone had their window shade pulled down so they could watch some stupid movie, missing a once in a lifetime view.Related content
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WOW this most certainly is a once in a lifetime experience!! great picture!
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Great photo. A few years ago, I flew over Greenland on he first day of summer and saw something similar...glaciers, fjords, iceburgs, rocky mountians. i was beautiful from 45,000 feet up. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me.
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Wow, that was lucky for you and sucks for them but that is an awesome photo.
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OK, so I saw this before...and I really liked it and I just thought I'd come back and comment on it and say what an nice job I think you did on this, and that as this is my 3rd favorite of yours, I think I'm definately gonna have to add you as a deviant watch.
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It was either a 777 or an A340. Don't remember which. I had a friend who flew on the Concorde and said he saw this effect... but I think it could fly up to 60,000 feet. I don't think most other commercial aircraft fly much over 45,000', so I don't know if maybe it had something to do with the time of day or maybe because we were going up and over part of the Artic circle or what. All I know is it was an incredible sight. Haven't seen anything like it since that flight.
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I looked it up and it seems that the boeing 777-200 can fly to about 43000 ft for crusing... which is pretty high! I am not sure about other configurations (such as the 777-300 maybe if it exists). The a320 flys slightly lower. Either way though, I have never seen the curvature of the earth from a plane, and I find it to be amazing. Maybe you were turning to see so much of the black sky?
Anyways, thanks for whiping out the camera.
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Well to be fair, I was using a 24mm lens, which on that camera is about the same as an 18mm lens on a normal 35mm camera. That is probably where the curvature comes from. I don't recall being so high that the horizon was curved. So yes, because it was so wide angle it would have been looking up to see more of the black sky.
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Ah, I never thought of a wide angle lens. Ingenious.
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