Location Taken: Somewhere above, I dunno, North Carolina?
Time Taken: October 2012
Isn’t this a lovely photo?
Such a fantastic shot of a shoreline taken from above, with the sand and distant trees going to the horizon and the white waves coming in. And the sky only has a few high clouds, too! It looks like a fantastic day at the beach, really…
Wait, it’s not a beach?
That “ocean” is an airplane wing?!
But I can see the waves – oh wait, that’s the flaps on the edge of the wing and some reflections.
But the shore – no, that’s the tops of some other clouds, low-laying ones the plane is far above. It’s only sand-colored because it’s sunset and the light just happens to be that color right at that time of day. I think we were actually close by the Appalachians at that point, and they were causing the interesting variance in the clouds.
Don’t you love optical illusions?
