Nearly six months ago, I published a post about the tendency passengers have to take the same kind of in-flight photographs. If you don’t write to read all of it, it said that different passengers on different planes frequently make the same photographs and I illustrated with close shots of propellers, centered on the cone (still don’t want to read it ?)

So when after a recent flight when my passenger gave me the CD with his pictures, I started to give it a quick look. I already flew that route with this plane in similar conditions, so I did not expect something unusual in the pictures. Silly me !

Most of the pictures were the usual shots, but one of them caught my attenton. The surprise was even bigger because the subject of this above average shot was the plane on the ground ! My photo library contains a gazillion of ground pictures, but I never had one like this.

Many factors make this a good photograph: the elevator lined-up with the white stripe as well as the right blade of the propeller. The parking line also adds to the parallelism and the perspective (no comments on the bad parking please ).

The photo is well framed and balanced. I did not had to crop it, and the colors have not been adjusted.

You can see all the 44 pictures in this gallery.