A beautiful aerial landscape. I love the subtle hues, enhanced by the mist and haze in valleys. There is great depth in the image with other more distant volcanoes towards the horizon. The portrait orientation was a good choice, with the foothills in the foreground and the river on the left leading the eye towards the main subject. Brilliant work!
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 1 and 250 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.
This a really unusual shot, and I'm still slightly struggling to work out how it was acheived. Clearly a slow shutter speed was used (the exif says 4 seconds, making the lights on the ground streak as the plane performs a tight turn. The camera must have been held steady against the window to get the wing so sharp. A very creative shot.
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