sonny photos

London>Singapore>Sydney

Leaving London and then flying over Eastern Europe was not much to see, as it was basically cloud cover, fast forward about 12 hours, and now descending to land in Singapore



hmmmm, been hearing all about these cracks on the wings of the A380's, so when I now see this patch of ice developing on the wing, I'm like hmmmm..okay, never seen that before


Port on the very western tip of Singapore Singapore. Looking at it now, and thinking of that new hotel with the roof top spanning across 3 buildings and amazing swimming pool, but then with a view of all these tankers parked "out front" not so special then is it ?
an hour later and off again, Sydney bound


Tropics give the best clouds :-)


looking like a salt lake, out near Uluru Australia, in general, obviously not everywhere ( it's a big country) has had a lot of rain recently, and even here, out near the simpson desert, you can clearly see big pools of water in the middle areas of the salt lakes would love to be down there ( in a 4 wheel drive with lots of supplies) taking some photos I reckon you could land a plane on this wing, not showing so much in this photo, but the wing on the A380 is massive. Got myself an upgrade to business, which is great to get a sleep in, but downside was I am stuck on this massive wing, so was hard to get some good shots
Red earth country see the pools of water ?

Sunset take off

 

Milan > Paris

waiting to board the bus to take us to the plane looks like it would have been better if we left 10 minutes ago

take off, and straight away see the outline of the Alps on the horizon city below , sunset above

love that natural red colour
look closely and you will see the lights from the snowcats grooming the runs, and the lights of the little ski village in the valley. Oh how nice it would be to be there after a day ski-ing powder in the sun
lovely colours. Ok, Paris Fashion Week , here I come

Paris > Milano ( shot with the new 35mm )

Paris airport, waiting take off looking more like summer clouds Seine River though the clouds Eiffel Parigi hmmm, should I be worried ( stress marks ) Orly aiport about 30 min later, Lake Geneva and the Alps lovely






anyone that knows Milan, knows that once you crossed the alps and descend, you enter the smog
Milan, Linate Fashion week here we go.

Back To Europe we go

love me an upgrade, although some of the models gave me a little look of jealousy. nearing England connecting flight from London to Brussels taken by the hand to runway :-)

Brussel > London

after much delay, and at least the captain came out to the boarding gate to explain things ( in a nutshell, London freaks out when there is 1 cm of snow, and boy have we been through this before ) finally on the plane, but looks like I will miss my flight to New York take off ( no problem here with the snow ) Brussel
atomium
Brugge, and you can just see the coastline as well woauw, never seen it like this. That would be Oostende in the middle
leaving the sunny Belgium ( for once :-) for grey London, so here come the clouds bye sun hello clouds the channel
look at those 3 plumes of smoke puffing up through the clouds liking those lines

dropping down into the grey
And yes, missed my flight, no there was no snow on the tarmac ( why BA why ?? )
Next flight was delayed, so from what was supposed to be a sunset landing with a window seat, so I could shoot some footage for a film clip I'm working on, turns into an aisle seat with take off seconds before sunset and land in New York 4 hours later than planned, bloody BA and their, ahem, snow plan ?

Stockholm > Brussel

Leaving Stockholm via Bromma airport my plane my view

Bromma Airport Stockholm Gamla Stan ( a must see in Stockholm ! )
Antwerp Battle of Waterloo monument

Brussels > Stockholm-Bromma

small plane  ( I know someone who would hate to be on this fligth ) transformer :-) That engine, is the second engine, there is another right next to the window, feels weird being on the same height as the engine, used to being on a plane where seats are above wing, not under it breaking through the grey again, it's a plague in Europe :-)



there's that other engine wave formation in the clouds below
going going gone Bromma airport

Madrid > Brussels

A bit sunier here than Barcelona Same angle, same shot as this from 2 days ago
pretty cloud
still snow on the mountains just outside Madrid more the distance I'm used to

although :-) going right over the top of us French coastline, just north of Biaritz Cap Ferret leaving the coastline



goodnight folks :-)

Barcelona > Madrid

a very cold and grey Barcelona day today

but again, once through those clouds, it's back to sunshine can just make out the snow covered Pyrenees, that border France in the distance not soon after take off and heading inland that cloud cover disappears
colour of the landscape changes

and about to land in Madrid