sunrise at 10000 feet in the sky

10000 feet in sky, on an airplane bound for Manila. Before my flight I thought all I would do was sleep in the entire flight. My friend did mention that I should take a picture of the sunrise. I said to myself, our flight is like 5 in the morning, if we did catch the sun, I will probably have a hard taking a descent shot due to some technical constraints. So I tried to sleep during the whole duration of the flight which should last for around an hour or so. Then I woke up halfway through the flight due to some turbulence, as I gaze to window 2 seats away from me, all I can see was the dark blue sky starting to show some warmth due to sun nearly rising. If I was on the ground, then I would already be seeing the sunrise. But since I was 10000 feet in the sky, then my sun has not risen yet. And from a photographer’s perspective, this is the best time to capture the sunrise.

Carelessly, I woke up my colleague sitting beside me. “We need to change seats dude, look at the sky, the sun is about to rise. I gotta take a picture of this.”, I said. Still half asleep, my friend moved away from his seat and let me have his seat. I’m not a professional photographer, so it took me a while before I came up with the shoot that I would say, suits me just right.

After taking the beautiful scene, I stopped and think for a while and said to myself,” Where will all this be if we don’t start taking care of our environment?” It’s a good thing we are starting to become more conscious of environment today. It may be a little too late, but it’s never too late.

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