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Early 2018 I went back to Spain via Dublin to see my dad. This was the weather leaving Pittsburgh. Fairly typical Spring afternoon.

Coming back from Los Angeles via Phoenix, I snapped this picture of the traffic jam waiting to get on the runway.

Back in Manchester over the other side of the airport, this arriving China Airlines Freighter makes a little spray on the wet runway.

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The following Winter Virgin Atlantic heavies arrive at heathrow in crystal clear january skies. Myrtle Avenue is a little cul-de-sac right under the approach to 27L at LHR. The arrivals are about every two minutes.

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American Airlines 767-300 on it's way to (I think) Chicago, from a wet and gloomy Manchester. You can see the vortices spooling off the wingtip and the vortex generator on the engine nacelle.

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This was on a flight down to Capetown, back in 2005. Somewhere over North Africa.

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You could get very close at some gaps in the fence. The 747s are now a historical artifact, long since replaced by newer types.

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This was the Spring before, with the tow happening. The aircraft arrives early morning, and it's pulled back from the gate to a quiet area at the heavy maintenance where it's made ready to go home later that evening.

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Back when the perimeter road was just a regular through-road and open to the public, you could see the maintenance hangars where heavy jets would be towed in the morning, left to air out all day before their evening trip home. Despite the sun, this was winter and it was very cold.

Balcon de Europa, Nerja, Andalucía August 2010. The crushing humidity gives way to a cool sunset breeze as night rolls in.

Toronto's Pearson International, on the way to Pittsburgh, a short hop over Lake Erie, on a little DHC-8-100 bug smasher.

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London Heathrow, Terminal 3 departures. I stopped outside for a smoke, put the camera on the ground and pressed the shutter button.

Traveling to LHR from Southampton for my flight to the US, one of many I'd made that year. It was 0143, Roxy Music's 'More than This' was playing on the bus radio.

Mincing Lane, London, Feb 2008. The tightly-packed nature of central London (looking towards The Gherkin) is well displayed. Everywhere looks like this in that part of town.

St. Mary's Annex ('The Gherkin') City of London, Feb 2008. The polarizer has taken the glare off the windows creating that weird matte effect.

Hays Galleria, London, September 2004. I always liked this spot. The River Thames is behind me.

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My sister in Hays Arcade, London 2004. Not a happy time, my mum was terminally ill and we stole a couple of hours to get out of the apartment and grab a pint.

An old friend I took a candid of. Haven't seen her in over a decade since I left England. This was pushing my aging EOS 20D to the absolute limit, I think I took a fair bit of noise out In the edit but I honestly don't remember, it was a long time ago.

Those were the days. Now it's in bed by 9 and still a hangover the next day.

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