The 10pm to 11pm outbound crunch at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, July 17th, 2009. Departures on Runways 1L/1R as seen from Millbrae.
Better large.
Edit: credit to papa_sierra for letting me know there were some good vantage points in Millbrae.
Qantas Airways Limited flight 74 (Boeing 747-400) can be seen crossing
midfield left to right and then departing on 27 28 for Sydney (YSSY).
Before the crunch, there's about 20 minutes where the airport almost goes silent. I also noticed that after 10pm only one departure happens at a time, whereas side by side takeoffs were occuring prior to that. I assume that's for noise control reasons.
Stack of 31 exposures. And to the Millbrae residents who saw me shooting on the sidewalk near your houses, sorry if I bothered you.
[ Edit: This image appears in the September 2009 issue of San Francisco magazine in the "click" feature. Thanks, San Francisco magazine! ]
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yamatime 15 months ago | reply
amazing . i've never seen this kind of long exposure before .
Dennis Clarisse 15 months ago | reply
Great! Very nice!
Giorgio Brida 14 months ago | reply
great !!!
stephrzephyr 14 months ago | reply
What an awesome pile of pix!! inspiring work, thanks!
squalo79 13 months ago | reply
stupenda!
Porsche-Pics.com 12 months ago | reply
wicked shot man 8)
aLexDoULoU 12 months ago | reply
super concept. nicely put-together!
smbobde 12 months ago | reply
This is simply fantastic! Wonderful albums.
iamzacky 12 months ago | reply
insanely beautiful!
DrSeaMonkey 11 months ago | reply
This photo is simply wonderful. I love night plane trail pics like this. I tried a few when at SFO once, leaving the shutter open for about 15 minutes. I think that, as you show, it's much better to stack several shots. That's what I'll try in the future. Very nice photo!
Zaphod Beeblebrox 9 months ago | reply
Woah! Brilliant!! If you ever get a chance again, borrow a second camera and shoot these in 3D. You'll need the cameras a couple of meters apart.
lorenzoviolone 9 months ago | reply
WoW!
. Jianwei . 8 months ago | reply
OMG!
Michael Layefsky 6 months ago | reply
Magnificent!
chrisbastian44 5 months ago | reply
Cool shot
Fransois 5 months ago | reply
Your wonderful picture has been seen in
Artistic Perspectives
zawaski 4 months ago | reply
awesome
Rozanne Hakala 3 months ago | reply
Yowza! Absolutely brilliant stuff Terence!
smbobde 2 months ago | reply
Awesome work!!
Cremantus 3 weeks ago | reply
Great work!