This is pretty amazing work from Flickr user Ettubrute.

On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal – it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!

Luckily the flight was half empty, so I was able to set up a impromptu mound made up of my bags, pillows, and blankets for my camera to sit on.

We were around the midwest at the beginning of the clip, and there were fewer cities once we hit the rockies. the bridge at the end is the san mateo bridge.

Technique: 1600iso; beginning – 1 (30sec) exposure / 45secs, end – 1 (4sec) exposure / 10 secs; total elapsed time: around 3 hours?

Music: Bloc Party – Signs


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  • Wow, that is truly magical. Did you put that on fast forward?
  • Thanks for posting - that was really fun to watch. How was he/she able to keep the camera on during landing?
  • I think he somehow propped his tripod up on his backpack in an empty window seat. But yeah, impressive.
  • Wow thats a crazy trip. It seems hes flying over an alien planet!!
  • Thanks, y'all. Pretty awesome, huh?
  • Magnificent, Mark! Thank you so much for posting this.
  • joshuagrace
    pretty awesome
  • Audrey
    wow! really cool looking.
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