1.03.12:
I owe a personal thank you to the airline attendant who helped us work out a seating nightmare by making multiple changes and hooking us up with a pair of seats on the east side of the plane. My husband and older daughter had a pair on the west side, and I happily scooted into our two seater row with my youngest by the window. The nicest thing about flying above the clouds at 6 AM is that you can always count on a sunrise. This one was going to be special since it was the first one of 2012, so even before I saw anything I was excited.
I took plenty of photos, and was most excited by the subtle catch light on the wing of the plane. I was having troubles with my lens again with it not functioning under certain focal lengths, so I used the trick of shooting in video mode. For whatever reason my lens will work at all focal lengths under that setting. Taken I don't have the same controls and the resolution isn't as high, but I could work around that in order to capture a few images.
I'm guessing that I stopped taking pictures, to the relief of the young man sitting behind us, after about an hour. After that time I was paying more attention to the emergency medical situation of the woman in front of me who couldn't breathe properly without an oxygen tank, but that I will save for another post and set of documentary photos.
So here are a handful + from the many.
The coming of the sun on New Year's morning 2012.
