Let's See Your Aerial Photos

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BillMiddlebrook wrote:I added the "14er Aerial Photos" category and moved over the shots which were already added to the 14ers category. Great stuff!
Bill, thanks for doing that! I think it's a great addition to the photography component of 14ers.com. I certainly appreciate it.
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jbchallk -- very cool and unique vantage point on Kili! Was that on approach into Arusha?

Mark -- thanks for including so many fun images from commercial flights! While I enjoy getting up close and personal in my little Cessna, it's also fun to get a different, higher perspective.
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Oh, and while a few of you have already taken me up on it, my offer to take interested folks on a mountain flight still stands. I just ask that you pay half the cost, which isn't too bad, depending on how far you want to go. PM me or reply here if you're interested. This isn't a profit-making thing for me at all (in fact, I still have to pay my share of costs), but I just like taking people flying and sharing the experience.

For those who have asked, I fly out of Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (formerly Jeffco) on Highway 36 between Boulder and Denver.
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Rio Grande Pyramid:
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good link for some aerials...

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Furthermore wrote:Here are a few from my collection. There are probably way to many to share.

Quandary. Bumpy.
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Cool shot, but isn't that Humboldt? :-$

I like the shots you posted, the lower angle is really cool! The commercial flights I have been on have been so high that its really hard to tell what I am looking at sometimes, especially out of state. I will have to have my camera ready when I fly for Christmas though, I fly out of Eagle and should get some nice winter aerial Gore eye candy!
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How about that. It is Humboldt. :oops:

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[quote="Neil"]jbchallk -- very cool and unique vantage point on Kili! Was that on approach into Arusha?

Neil, yep, on our flight out of Arusha to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I had to jump over several people when the seat belt sign was on for take-off to get a few pics. I was not poular with the flight attendants :)
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jbchalk wrote:I had to jump over several people when the seat belt sign was on for take-off to get a few pics. I was not poular with the flight attendants
I'm sure you weren't, but you have to do what is necessary for the sake of both mountains and art!! :D On a flight in May from Dubai to Johannesburg, we flew over Kili. Unfortunately, I was on the wrong side of the plane and the flight attendants didn't want me standing at the galley window. So, I convinced (read: begged) a nice German fellow to vacate his left-side window seat so I could take 100 shots with my crummy camera phone. The things we do for mountains. Anyway, yours is much better...nice job!
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Furthermore -- very cool...love the BE1900D. I have a buddy who used to fly a King Air and he couldn't say enough about it. How did you end up flying the 1900D? Are you a pilot by profession? What are you flying now? Anyway, one heck of a plane and much more tolerant of windy days over ridges than the C182!
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Thanks Neil, for spearheading this fine thread. And thanks to Bill for his valuable input and contributions here and everywhere else on the site.

Let's keep the aerial views coming.
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Futhermore,
Any chance we could get you to add your aerial shots to the new category on the User Photos page? I think they would be a great addition and helpful to many. Very cool shots
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