Airport Sunrise
Sunrise At Gatwick
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Finally! A picture of a sunrise rather than a sunset. This was taken from the top of the bus that takes you from the airport to the car parks.
In the background is the Pier 6 air bridge, a relatively new feature of London’s Gatwick Airport. It is fully enclosed and provides a permanent link for pedestrians to walk between the North Terminal and the satellite building.
It spans the airport taxiway and is high enough for jumbo jets to go underneath it. It makes for a great opportunity to view aircraft up close as they pass beneath you whilst standing on the bridge.
In fact, I think I might travel up with John one day when he's working at the airport and the weather has improved. It might make for some even more interesting photographs! 😊
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Very nice. I like the pink. it stands out well.
It sounds like to me those photos would be very exciting, if you're basically taking the photos from over the top of an airliner as it passes beneath you. In my experience taking photos from any bridge really is bound to be good.
What kind of work does John do at the airport?
How many international airports does London have? I bet a few. I know there's Heathrow, and now this one. With a population the size of London, though, along with the surrounding area, I would imagine there's more.
Where we're at, there's only one international airport within an hour and half, in Portland. Seattle would be the next closest at probably six hours because of all the traffic once you get up there. Should only take about 4 hours, though.
After that, I think Sacramento might be next. We do have a closer airport than any of those in Eugene, but I don't think it takes international traffic. I've only flown out and in there once each, and that was 30 years ago. This month, actually. :)
Yes. It would be interesting to try the photographs from the bridge at Gatwick Airport @glenalbrethsen. I have not idea whether it would work or not using just a phone. The planes might be too close or too far away.
John doesn't actually work at the airport but he works for a company that works at the airport. He's not there very often as he now mostly works on the railways. He is a civil engineer.
London has five airports officially but only the newest one is actually in London proper and that's London City Airport.
Then there's Heathrow, as you mention, Gatwick, Stanstead and Luton.
As far as I'm concerned Luton is a completely separate town and calling it a London airport is a bit of a stretch but then these four are all outside London really.
We live about thirty minutes drive from Gatwick so it's our airport of choice for international or domestic travel but it depends on which airline you're flying as to whether you can use it or not.
Proximity and overall cost to fly seem to be the determining factors. Since we only have one major airport really, it doesn't really matter on our end, but the few times we've had a choice where to fly into, there's a considerable difference between airports and airlines. We've been to Dallas, Texas a couple of times, and flying Southwest into the smaller airport (forget the name now), because Southwest has a hub there, was always cheaper than going to the main airport. It's usually the opposite, since more traffic typically equates to lower fares and airport fees. Not in this case.
Civil engineer. Nice. He must get to work all over the place, which would be nice. Unless he's stuck in an office where ever he goes. I'm not as familiar with what civil engineers do as I probably should be, but my guess is, he does get to get out and look around at infrastructure and systems and so forth.
I think in most cases, airports do end up outside the city proper, or at least to one side within the city limits, but being in a totally different town seems a little much. I'm sure it's like here where basically everything around Portland for miles is considered to be Portland even if's not really Portland or even a suburb of Portland.
While I was away at school, I had people from other places who know about Portland ask me if I was going back to Portland rather than Oregon, or the actual town where I live. At first I would tell them no, but that I was going back to my home in Oregon. After a while, I just nodded my head.
Driving or flying, I guess I would be going to Portland. There's just more to go after that, and Oregon is much larger a place than Portland is by itself, so it's kind of hard to equate the two. But if you've never been here, or only been to Portland, I guess that's what happens. :)
Such a beautiful scene! See, pink sunset exist!
Thank you @rimicane. Well spotted on the pink. 😊
Are you going to the Crypto show in London next weekend?
I always prefer sunset because it's easy to look at it while I don't have to wake my sleepyhead in the early morning D:
I totally agree @notimenospace. Sun rises are a rare thing for me to experience too! 😂
What a photo for the sunrise really beautiful
Thank you @rabihfarhat. Nice to hear you liked it! 😊
Ur welcome 🌸
Love how the sky looks!
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great picture