4a Travel picture - From plane
I use photographs as an extension of my memory, and I took a lot of pictures during my travels. Before the days of digital photography, I used to take three cameras with me – one for printed photos, one for slides and the third was for Super 8 movies.
Sitting beside me on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver in 1967 was a young man who was immigrating to Canada. He asked if I could change seats with him so that he could take pictures through the window. Once seated, he took out his point and shoot camera and proceeded to shoot. After one roll of film, he continued with a second one. I did not know of anyone who took more pictures than I did. It was his first time on a plane, and he was mesmerized by the beautiful white clouds, and could not have enough of them. In those days, it would take a week to get prints back after dropping the films off at a drug store.
Since that day, every time I was on a flight, I thought of him. Like him, I am attracted to the beautiful cloud formations. However, when I looked for a photo from my files for this recall, I could find only two photos taken from a plane. This one was taken over Wyoming in 2015 on a flight to Costa Rica. I do not remember why I took it.
4a Travel picture - From plane
I use photographs as an extension of my memory, and I took a lot of pictures during my travels. Before the days of digital photography, I used to take three cameras with me – one for printed photos, one for slides and the third was for Super 8 movies.
Sitting beside me on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver in 1967 was a young man who was immigrating to Canada. He asked if I could change seats with him so that he could take pictures through the window. Once seated, he took out his point and shoot camera and proceeded to shoot. After one roll of film, he continued with a second one. I did not know of anyone who took more pictures than I did. It was his first time on a plane, and he was mesmerized by the beautiful white clouds, and could not have enough of them. In those days, it would take a week to get prints back after dropping the films off at a drug store.
Since that day, every time I was on a flight, I thought of him. Like him, I am attracted to the beautiful cloud formations. However, when I looked for a photo from my files for this recall, I could find only two photos taken from a plane. This one was taken over Wyoming in 2015 on a flight to Costa Rica. I do not remember why I took it.