From the other side... Photo

Photographer’s Note

When you are visiting London and walking near the Tower Bridge and the river Thames, you can often see aircraft at relatively low altitude heading for the big airport "London Heathrow". If you have ever thought what the view from the other side of the aircraft windows would be like: just look at the picture for the answer.

The view from an airplane approaching Heathrow on a clear day can be amazing. You can see a lot of the touristic highlights of London. On the picture are visible the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, the modern city hall (architect Norman Foster), the navy ship (and museum) HMS Belfast, Millennium Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral. A few seconds later we were looking at the Millennium Wheel, Houses of Parliament (and Big Ben) and Buckingham Palace.

I can give you the following tip. If you are going on a flight to London Heathrow: be sure to get a window seat on the right hand side of the aircraft!

P.S. Apologies for the blurry areas on the picture. Unfortunately, windows of aircraft that are completely clean and without scratches are hard to find!

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Vagabond (5797) 2004-01-25 17:20

Very good image, not easy nor usually good in these circumstances

jurgen (1994) 2004-01-25 17:41

You are right, all of my plane photos are blury because no airline seem interested to give the passengers a better service 'through their windows'. Do you have a picture of the Millenium Wheel from the air that we can see? Thanks for the tip.
A very nice picture.

Liora (1857) 2004-01-25 22:04

A wonderful view, and I think the quality of the photo is outstanding, given the conditions under which it was taken.
Very well done!

olli (2091) 2004-01-26 2:32

Great aerial – almost abstract – shot. Very interesting view with many details. Very well done.
I tried to make it even more abstract – I posted a WS

nwoehnl (120) 2004-01-26 3:39

A very engaging aerial view, Michael. It's been some years since I last saw London, but your image and great note are certainly an excellent memory-refresher. And thanks so much for the airplane seating tip - looking at your picture I guess I know about a good reason for an exception from my usual "aisle seat" preference.

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mortijo (12410) 2004-01-26 5:49

Very good. Under de circumstances this is a technical perfect shot. Once I have seen this sight 6 times since we were in a waiting loop. Unfortunately digital phtography was (almost) unexistent then. And my Minolta was somewhere unreachable.

Guto (1738) 2004-01-26 9:35

It's a great view, really clear considering you've done it from the airplane. Thanks for the notes also.

PLD_images (7141) 2004-01-26 16:58

This is just incredible. I really like this shot. The image is sharp, clean and vivid. Very well done because it must be very hard to get this kind of shot from a moving airplane. Great work.

Thanks for the tip...

orme (6746) 2004-01-28 2:31

An incredible shot, Michael. You have included many of London's great landmarks. Great detail. Good notes.

daveysteel (149) 2004-02-11 18:41

That's an amazing capture - you must have good reactions to catch this scene exactly at Tower Bridge heading up the Thames!

If the scene stretched just a tiny bit further up to show all of Blackfriars Bridge I'd be able to see the building where I work!

Love it.

Xalkida (11740) 2004-06-13 11:57

Excellent air view for London. Amazing view!

dawekato (1988) 2004-08-08 21:07

This one is even better, showing the Thames and its bridges.

Ria_M (115) 2009-02-09 3:17

Fantastic photo! I have a fair few photos of some of the touristy sights in London, although i have to say none of them come out as well as this one! I think you were very fortunate.