Shut down one evening a few weeks ago and as I was walking in front of the plane to raise the hanger door the sky caught my eye! It was almost pink however the picture does not do it justice! Photo was taken with my Blackberry.



Found another one on my phone


Skimming across a cotton field at 160mph. I can obviously see better than the picture shows!!

Nice pic!

John

Watching sunsets never gets old...

several times ive been out on a platform in the gulf at sunset...no land in sight.... sitting on the helipad.... i swear that you can hear the sunset....or see it flash just as it goes down....nice pics!!!!!!!!!

I've spent a fair bit of time on the Prairies, with the FLAT ground and a little dust in the air the sunsets are some of the best. If your lucky you get that last blast of Red and Gold light. Just awesome, but you do need to carry something better than a Camera phone.

Hey Trapper, Your picture doesnt show on my computer?? Just a white box with a red x.

Its up and plain on mine - let me post it again and see if it comes up for you this time.



Let me know if it doesn't come up and we'll try something else.

Got it! Very Nice!!

Beautiful shots guys. For what it's worth here is mine, North of Bella Bella Island, British Columbia, just off the inside passage

Dude, quit working that plane so hard. Your start'n to put ripples in the wings.

Great pictures by the way, even from a blackberry.

You about through for the year?

Rusty, Now thats a nice one!!

Bluetick, When the weather breaks we should start defoliating cotton. So far I have only defoliated 600 acres last Friday. We still have some we are treating for insects! The floods this spring caused alot of acreage to be planted late.

As for the wings, I should exceed 1000 hours for the season this year. I will most certainly be glad when it goes to the shop for annual! However I am greatful to have a good job during these tough times!

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Originally posted by jb:

Nice picture BUT ya should have waited a few more minutes, maybe got the elusive 'green flash' to show up!
Really, we are starting to grow a really nice collection of sunsets. Maybe the Aussies have something going in the 'sundowner' tradition?

Not quite sunset ...



Green Lake BC

A sunset on the Zambezi:

This is truly turning up some nice and intriguing pictures. I love sunsets.
I have no picture of this to share with you but some years ago we flew over a portion of the Malaspina Glacier and encountered phenomena I have never seen before or since. We were flying probably some 25-28K feet as a guess, in a B727 as I recall, and we were suddenly flying down a ‘tunnel’ for want of a better word – heavy cloud cover below and above us but perfectly clear where we were. No sense of up or down, only indication of anything was a few peaks poking up from below. As stated, I have never seen this before or since and was wondering if there might be a term or name for such a situation.

Trapper I dont know if it is the same thing - probably isn't --

but I once was flying over the Ozark mountains early in the morning and cold moist air in the valleys had formed a cloud layer at the bottom of an inversion.

Also moisture at the top of the inversion cooled the night before and I suppose it had condensed creating an upper level of clouds also.

Im not sure thats what happened but it was my theory at the time.

Heres one quite similar to the specialist's photo.These photos were taken on Leech Lake,northern minnesota,land of 10,000 lakes


I wanted to get the "flash",but as you can see,there was a small amount of cloud cover,in the crucial spot,much like a fig leaf.




I have noted also,the uploaded pics displayed here,are considerably less clear than the same one stored on my computer.

Turnagain Arm



The Selous

Do sunrise pictures count as well?

Fishing camp - Bayou DuLarge, Louisiana - February 2005

Some of the pinkest skies I've ever seen:

Here's some of mine.









Namibiahunter

Well, I'm back again! I have to post some up comments and tell you that the last photo posted by 'Namimbiahunter' is absolutely wonderful - when I look at this, I can smell 'morning' - hot coffee, Hoppe's No 9, good leather and wet mud. It don't get no better unless you can hear wings you can't see, smell the dog and have a little sleet in your face - but then you wouldn't see the sun in the clouds!
BTW, I found an outfit online that will take your digital photo and make an oil painting from it, all via the computer. Only problem with the one I looked at was the $$$ - I think they wanted some $400 to take the photo I posted here and make a 16X20 framed print from it.
Anyone know a better price for this treatment?

Wonderful photo! were you hanging out a window or what?

here's a recent London sunset

Namibia


Argentina, inland sea:


Chaco/Formosa Arg.

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Wonderful photo! were you hanging out a window or what?

That was taken with a 35mm film camera out the window of a Cessna. We were homeward bound after a trip to the CAF airshow in Harlingen, Texas about 1985.


Here is another out the window shot taken Dec. 3, 2008.

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I found an outfit online that will take your digital photo and make an oil painting from it, all via the computer. Only problem with the one I looked at was the $$$ - I think they wanted some $400 to take the photo I posted here and make a 16X20 framed print from it.
Anyone know a better price for this treatment?

I found something like this a while back. Instead of a computer doing the painting, Chinese artists do it-- by hand. You get a real piece of art. I seem to recall it was not all that expensive because I wanted a portrait done of my late sister. Maybe I can find the website again...

A couple from my back deck in North Idaho.

All of them are truly beautiful. I'll try to dredge up a couple.

Selous



Sunset behind acacia, Simanjiro concession, Maasailand...

Pacific sunset, Playa el Zonte, El Salvador...

Selous sunset, Tanzania, 2006