I work as a Sales Engineer for a cybersecurity company. I have to travel quite a bit (almost all in the US). I started traveling at the beginning of 2015 and decided right away to take photos from the planes using my phone. I've kept the tradition going and continue to take new photos.
This album has three rules. 1. All photos must be taken from a plane. 2. All photos must be taken with my phone. 3. Editing can only be done in Adobe Lightroom for Android. All photos were taken with Samsung Galaxy Note 4, 5 and 8.
Many of these photos are low quality due to distance from the ground, using a phone and lighting conditions, but that is the point... Do the best you can with the phone from the plane.
These photos are not in chronological order, but instead are grouped by region of North America.
I grew up in Chicagoland but live near Phoenix.
Downtown Phoenix
Downtown Phoenix
Loop 101 Freeway in Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ
Superstition Mountains near Phoenix
Camelback Mountain in Phoenix
Arizona State University
Phoenix metro sprawling across the Sonoran Desert
Camelback Mountain
Phoenix
Four Peaks Mountain near Phoenix
South Mountain contained entirely in Phoenix city limits. Seen here after a rainy month turned things a bit greener than normal.
South Mountain in a more normal, dry state
Hoover Dam
Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
A new subdivision outside of Las Vegas
A golf course housing development in Las Vegas
Downtown San Diego
San Diego
San Diego
Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, La Jolla
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Southern California
Forest fire in Southern California. Point Mugu in the distance
San Jose
San Jose
San Francisco
The 101 Freeway just south of San Francisco
Fremont, CA (one of my former hometowns)
Mount Shasta
Mount Hood
Crater Lake, Oregon
I-205 crossing the Columbia River from Portland, OR to Vancouver, WA
The Willamette River and downtown Portland, Oregon
Mount Rainier
Mount Ranier
Landing in Seattle
Taking off in the morning from Seattle
Landing in Seattle
Downtown Seattle
Seattle
Seattle
Mountains near Salt Lake City
Mountains near Salt Lake City
Juarez, Mexico (top) and El Paso, TX (bottom)
Houston
Wichita, Kansas
Farms near Kansas City
Peoria, Illinois
Frozen central Illinois
Aurora, Illinois (where I grew up)
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Charlotte, North Carolina
Florida Everglades
Fort Lauderdale
Toronto, Ontario
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts