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Switzerland, Europe // May 2025
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An airplane window view looking to the north-northeast across Miami Beach and other island/keys present. This was on an approach to Miami International Airport not long after making a turn over Biscayne Bay and the national park. My thought in composing this image had been to include part of the airplane wing and engine to add foreground interest and a look beyond. I angled my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward so that I could bring out more of a sweeping view looking across this south Florida setting.

While on an American Airlines flight from Austin to Miami.

An aerial perspective of southern Florida around the Miami area, captured from an airplane window during a flight from Austin to Miami. The view is to the south at Biscayne Bay with its waters and island/keys in the namesake national park. The sight just filled me with a sense of wonder and imagination for the days ahead that were only to grow! I was needless to say eager with anticipation for my upcoming visit, where I would take a boat tour conducted by the national park institute there. In the interim, I was fortunate to have this breathtaking view to savor.

An airplane window view while flying over western Nevada, looking to Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park. I've been to that location a few times over the years but have never seen this amazing landscape from over 30,000 feet before.

While on a flight out of Austin as I was headed up to Washington Dulles Airport one Friday afternoon. The view is generally looking to the west with the Colorado River in the image center from bottom up to the airplane wing. I angled my Nikon Z8 camera slightly downward, bringing the horizon higher into the image and minimizing the overcast skies. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 7 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

A view looking across snowcapped mountain peaks of the Yukon area while flying over Canada on a flight from Anchorage to Minneapolis. I decided to zoom into this one portion and use a technique I came across a few years ago from a DPS article on the “impact of less.” The idea is to focus on a portion of an area and then let the mind imagine more beyond the image.

An airplane window view looking to the southwest with snowcapped mountains and peaks to the east of Salt Lake City.

I flew to Stewart Island / Rakiura in February and had this great view of the Waimakariri river on New Zealand’s South Island.