Twilight Flights
You get to see some of the most fabulous colours of nature when if you manage to catch a sunset or sunrise from a window seat of a plane...
The photo is from 9W 102 on my way home to Dhaka. I was also fascinated by the cloud scene on my flight back to
Bombay, but in a very different sense.
I think D and I saw the spookiest looking cloudscape on 9W 616 -- another evening flight. The pilots were flying higher than usual to escape the stormy weather down below. We were just looking outside, totally captivated by the scene offered by the window. There was no visible turbulence nor thunder among the clouds -- a sharp contrast to what we saw on the surface. But the shade of the twilight, combined with the shapes of the clouds made it a spine-tinglingly eerie view. Imagine a scene with these huge, ominous towering cloud structures looming in silence -- all bathed in those unearthly twilight shades. The clouds didn't look like the typical puffed cotton -- they looked like ramparts, towers, cities and giant sandmen. It reminded me of this Conan Doyle story I read called The Horror of the Heights, where an airman discovers atmospheric beasts while trying to break altitude records.
Anyway, I wish I could take a snap using my mobile, but that would mean turning it on in a non-offline manner which D wouldn't let me... so I don't have a photo. On the other had, I don't think I had the right kind of image capturing device to do justice to that scene...
