May 18, 2010

A desert road as seen from a plane at cruising altitude.
135mm | 1/640s | f/13.0 | ISO 800
A desert road as seen from a plane at cruising altitude.

These photos were taken from a plane at cruising altitude over Western and South Australia. The scene is blurry because the window was grubby, as they always are. I like the tilt-shift-like effect it’s had on these pictures; I feel like it adds to the surreal feeling that the desert always gives me, even from 10km up. I’ve post-processed the images more than usual to try to clean up the haze that’s inevitable in pictures from that height.

I wonder whether anyone was driving along that little bit of that long dusty road that day?

A salt lake and surroundings through a fuzzy plane window.
135mm | 1/640s | f/13.0 | ISO 800
A salt lake and surroundings through a fuzzy plane window.

Sand dunes form patterns when seen from the air.
70mm | 1/500s | f/14.0 | ISO 800
Sand dunes form patterns when seen from the air.

A dusty desert road seen from altitude.
135mm | 1/500s | f/11.0 | ISO 800
A dusty desert road seen from altitude.