A fabulously abstract and rather menacing representation of air travel. The frame balances a semiotic coding with the naturalness of the clouds and benefits from monochrome to control any distracting colour. I think this is a wonderfully elegant effort given the circumstances and the more I look the more becomes obvious - the lines of the riveting, the staining of the wings and so on. Well done.
This reminds me a great deal of Egglestone's Untitled, 1971 and 1974 (the cocktail on a plane) from Los Alamos in its construction - even despite the absence of a drink... What I like is the graphic nature of the curve of the glass and the shell of the engine casing just catching the last of the light. Images like this remind us of the infinite and the fragility of our existence. A lovely rendering.
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 251 and 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** <b>NOTE - Images must be shot from a plane window, and not be drone or aerial photography.</b> Who hasn’t taken one of these images, an artful composition of wing and horizon, in an attempt to bottle the wonder we feel when looking down from our privileged seats in the sky. Marvelling at the world above the clouds, watching the place you’re just leaving diminish in size, or peering eagerly at the country you’re arriving to. As more of us choose to fly less, we can still enjoy each other’s compositions from the cabin.
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I really like this - mostly because the of the curvature that envelops the whole frame: the window enveloping the curves of the road and horizon punctuated by the wing tip. There's a great deal to explore in the details and whilst the exposure is a little compromised by the limitations of the situation, this remains an excellent effort.
