See the picture The more stall of the jaw ever taken from commercial plane
An intrepid photographer has gone to long lengths for this position.
August 21, 2017, millions of people across the United States leaving the sky to attend the great American eclipse - a total sun eclipse that will not happen again before April 8, 2024. And while social media were flooded Some really incredible images of this natural phenomenon, the best picture of all has been published only recently.
As the Americans witnessed the soil eclipse below, photographerJon Carmichael Was furiously elongated by 1,200 photographs in a period of two minutes of 39,000 feet of the air. The result is a beautiful mosaic that has become viral since it shared the image on its Twitter account on the anniversary of one year of the eclipse.
While most people take planes to go from one place to another, Carmichael was on the right goal to realize a lifelong dream.
"Since I was a little child, I always wanted to go to space and be an astronaut. And I thought it would be the closest I receive",RecountInc. "This is the only time you saw our sun on a black sky, which changes all your point of view."
Tasty to have a chance to see the eclipse up at the top, he entered a contest Alaska Airlines who would give him a place in a plane on the perfect path and was devastated when he lost. But then, he raised and realized that there was a flight from Portland, Oregon, St. Louis, Missouri, who would offer a privileged vision of this cosmic event. He stole all the way from New York to Portland to catch the flight and brought $ 600 in cash with him hoping to corrupt other passengers to get it up to a window seat.
Fortunately, the Southwest airlines were friendly at the lengths he had gone to realize his dream. Once he explained his location at the door, they let him climb the map first and the captain even cleaned the window from the outside of the plane to make sure he had the sight of the clearer, then five degrees to 180 degrees once the eclipse was in full. It took about one year for Carmichael to target all the photos to create the final image. Southwest Airlines stole his family in New York for the unveiling of the photo, which was broadcast at each Twitter desk around the world.
Of course, Southwest Airlines did not let the opportunity to create a promotional video on the experience that highlights their customer service, but it is always worth looking at how people gathered to help Carmichael achieve his dream. And givenHow many bad flights from the press company have recentlyIt is good to see evidence that remained your faith in the humanity of the airline.
"If you are witnessing the entire ... The sky of the day turns at night." Carmichael says the eclipse in the video below. "It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever witnessed ... it changes you."
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