Thursday, October 10, I boarded the Air Canada flight at 9 pm EST from Toronto heading west to Calgary. I expected a Gravol-driven four hours of dozing before I landed. Who’d have known that those four hours would become the most extraordinary flight experience I’ve ever had.
First off, as we departed, I took this photo of the Toronto area. I thought to myself, hey, that was quite a nice pic. But not until I was up in the air the next hour did I realize there was something even more fantastic in store for me, manmade lightings compared to awesome cosmic wonders.
Our pilot had mentioned the possible appearance of the Aurora Borealis when we took off, but it didn’t occur to me to look out the window with much hope, because all I could see was the flashing red light from the right wing of the plane against the darkness. It’s only when the young man in front of me covering the head of his seat mate with his jacket as she did something by her window. I was wondering what they were doing when he showed me the photo they got on their phone of the Northern Lights.
For the next few hours I had taken over 100 photos on my iPhone. The amazing thing is, I could hardly see anything out the window with my naked eyes, but what’s caught by my camera lens was some fantastic sights. What I could see was only darkness, but what’s really happening was a cosmic show of spectacular wonders. And, I don’t mind the Air Canada logo on the wing in my pictures, just proved that I took these photos 30,000 feet up in the air.
Here are a few of them, no editing, no sharpening or colour changes, and of course, no AI generated effects.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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