PHOTOGRAPHY: illustration: landscape, flying in to SFO, 1999

 

In June of 1999 we experienced an eventful arrival at San Francisco International Airport: there was an aborted landing just a few feet from touchdown and I was able to get more photographs of the mud and salt flats south of the City on the second go round. Very exciting on both counts. Of course the scratchy, double-paned windows of the commercial airplane yielded low-contrast, vignetted images, but the compositions were so nice, i took the images into Photoshop and with an adjustment here and a filter there, voilá! Photo illustrations. The contrast is still low, but I love the muted colors. Available digitally and eventually as iris prints. Click on each 2 inch image to see a 5 inch enlargement. And if you know of a website that features photographs of William Garnett, the god of aerial photography, please let me know and I will provide a link to it. ©1999-2001 Jane Marie Cleveland