Beware of Camera Recoil While Shooting Clouds

Oh, what can I say about this one?

I got on the second smallest plane in my life, to go on a fishing vacation. The sky was brilliant blue and the clouds, once we got above them, were fluffy like cotton. Of course, I almost missed that part when the plane suddenly dropped about 20 ft down and another 20 to the left.

The copilot turned back to the 7 of us (yeah, did I mention it was a small plane?) and grinned, as if to say, "No worries, mate!"

Obviously, there were "no worries", as I am alive to write this. And, in fact, it wasn't that bad a flight. But, just to be safe, I pulled out my camera and watched the clouds beyond the engine until they looked satisfactorily dramatic and squeezed the trigger.

Suddenly, the camera slammed back into my forehead, like the recoil from a rifle when you place your face to close to the scope. The damned turbulance had bounced us again and slammed the camera, with my face following, into the wall of the plane.

I reviewed the image I had captured and promptly deleted it. Who wants a shot of my knee?

Looking back out of the window, I rubbed my sore forehead and resolved to give myself a little more room between window, camera lens and aching head. A few minutes later, the clouds cooperated again, but the turbulance had vanished.

During a quite moment on the vacation, I pulled out my laptop and spent some time tweaking my favorite from that session.

More images from the Canada Trip coming soon!