Thanks for the comments! It certainly is a stunning planet we live on!I feel lucky to be able to get shots like this, though it doesn't happen that often. However, sometimes time, place and weather all match up! I'd love to go to the Tibetan Plateau on the ground, it looks amazing, and I've always loved deserts.

Pauly, the lens used was a Sigma 24mm f2,8 Super-Wide II, manual focus, which doesn't matter from that height as it's parked at infinity! It's a great lens, perfect for this sort of photography, and comes with a 1-4 macro function as well. The best £30 I have ever spent! Though I still hanker after a Ltd. lens...

Gareth, I am putting a Blurb book together at the moment, all aerial photographs, for my own amusement as much as anything else. I'll let you know when it's finished

Lovely shot, the background works really well.

#'s 3,4,5 and 8 are my favourites, an excellent set of pictures. #11 is a great shot too.

Thanks Frogfish, I reduced the blue in that version, which seemed to work.

Wall, Shoe and Ivy are my favourites, but a great set overall; nice juxtaposition of new and derelict. With Wall and Ivy, personally I'd prefer to see the verticals corrected, whereas in Cathedral I like it as it is. I get to Shanghai sometimes with work, but not explored it at all, I'll have to have a look round!

No, I don't mind at all! I got rid of a lot of the haze in CS5, but when I tried to get rid of more of it I didn't like what it did to the colours. Here's one I tried reducing the haze more, then correcting the colour. I decided I preferred it with more natural looking colours with a bit less contrast, but I'll have another fiddle with them. I'd be interested to know which people prefer.

The first one is excellent, I prefer the cropped version too.

Thanks Prieni, congrats DigitalCG! Let's hope there's more entries next time, it seemed a popular idea when it was first mooted....

On the way to Osaka yesterday, I was hoping to get some pics of K2, the Karakoram and Himalayas, but they were covered by cloud.
The Tibetan Plateau, however, wasn't....

All pictures taken with the K7 and Sigma 24mm Super-Wide II, which is proving well worth the £30 I paid for it.

Great set, well captured! I especially like number 4, the soft focus works really well.