Thunderstorms

Thanks David, I have a rubber hood on my 24mm lens, which I used for the second two shots, so I will try pressing it up against the glass and see how it works out. While the monsoon lasts I should get some more oppurtunities, and perhaps even tonight on the way back from New York.

Nice idea, but wiring it up might be a problem!

There's a damn forum for everything now.

http://hbsboard.com/

Thanks for the link, Doug, I'll have a look at that....

I have this image similar to Edward Fox from Day of the Jackal. Its Aliengrove with a home made gyroscopic steady cam broken down into innocent parts and carried about his luggage as he passes through security.

Its either that or find a spare 22 million quid. link.

Very nice set of pix number two has a real Biblical feel to it like something out of the book of Revalation.
Ian

Amazing! Outstanding bit of Photography

Are you on an Airbus or a Boeing? If it is an Airbus I'm thinking that it probably has a mode that keeps it veeeeerrry steady for the taking of such pictures - just need to find the key combination for the ELAC

It's a Boeing, never flown an Airbus and don't care if I never do

Hoping to get a few snaps tonight, just off to work and there's a bit of weather along the East Coast of the US....

Super mood in these - No2 and No3 are brilliant and No1 isn't bad either.

Thanks all for the comments! Just got back from a flight, no opportunities this time for any further attempts.

great pictures, i like no 2 very much!
its really amazing thinking that you take this pictures while youre driving plane. does any of your passenger knew about this?

Hi Iqbal, not seen you on the forum for ages, welcome back!

No, the passengers don't know I take pictures, but I am hardly unique in this, I personally know at least 30 airline pilots who take pictures from aircraft too, though probably only half of them using DSLR's, and probably only 5 or so who know how to process them to get the best out of them. In fact I recently gave a quick Photoshop lesson to a fellow pilot. The passengers probably don't know we read newspapers either...with the level of automation in todays aircraft it's a good idea IMO to keep your mind active, and there's two of us and a computer monitoring things at all times. On a flight to Australia we don't even talk to Air Traffic Control for about 7 hours of the flight so it's good to keep yourself occupied...

you know in my mind, I always imagined that pilot would have to do many sort of things to pilot a plane, I guess Im wrong

But i believe that your view are waaaay better than of the passengers so keep the pictures coming, im huge fan of your work

cheers

Just extend the flaps and slow down a bit. Should keep it nice and steady!