I took these shots from the plane yesterday while flying over Eastern Greenland (from Iceland). The landscapes were so unreal that when I saw it from my window I quickly grabbed my 100-400mm lens and started firing like a mad man - a thousand frames in high-burst mode just to come away with a few good, sharp ones.
I quickly took off the polarizer (you can't shoot through a window with the polarizer on. You'll get weird colors and dark/bright areas within the frame).
And yes, this was shot through a double-pane aircraft window from about 35,000 feet.
The mountain ranges below are astonishing: vast, pristine, and largely unseen and unexplored. The glacier in this image, near Mount Forel, looked impossibly clean and untouched.
Now I just need someone with $20 million to fund an expedition there. Two helicopters (one as backup), fuel, boat, and enough food for a month, and a small team willing to find out what those mountains are hiding.
I can only imagine the images we’d come back with. They’d be absolutely unreal.
