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David Megginson
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I haven't been able to fly for the last couple of months because of travel (including twice over to Europe) and other work/family stuff getting in the way. When I finally did get to the airport, I found the flat strut I reported in another thread.
Anyway, today all was well, my consulting customers didn't have any fires to put out, and I actually got to log an hour flying low over West Quebec and looking at the beautiful fall colours in the Gatineau Hills (part of the Canadian Shield). I didn't take a picture, because it seems pointless -- a picture wouldn't capture the way the light was constantly changing and interacting with the colours, the way the sparkles danced across the water, the way trees seemed to be moving in and out of cloud shadows, the way the reds seemed impossibly red, etc.
You can't see the colours that way from the ground, and you can't reproduce them in film or video. We're very lucky people to be able to look at the world this way.
Anyway, today all was well, my consulting customers didn't have any fires to put out, and I actually got to log an hour flying low over West Quebec and looking at the beautiful fall colours in the Gatineau Hills (part of the Canadian Shield). I didn't take a picture, because it seems pointless -- a picture wouldn't capture the way the light was constantly changing and interacting with the colours, the way the sparkles danced across the water, the way trees seemed to be moving in and out of cloud shadows, the way the reds seemed impossibly red, etc.
You can't see the colours that way from the ground, and you can't reproduce them in film or video. We're very lucky people to be able to look at the world this way.
