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Uncle Rickie

@richardgatley.bsky.social

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Professional pilot, Gulfstream G600 and amateur photographer, Fuji X-T2, X-E3, vintage Soviet lenses, Ricoh GR III and iPhone 16 (All images are by me unless stated otherwise) the.fotoapp.co/rgatley

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · Dec 15

Hello from the flight deck!

Green flight data symbology projecting on the combiner glass in the cockpit window as dawn light breaks on the horizon

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 42m

😊👍🏻

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 49m

Monitoring everything continuously. When necessary I’ll tell the aircraft to make a change via the autopilot…it’s not flying, I am. Maintaining assigned course, altitude, vertical profiles and power settings is what it does. Until I alter instructions or disconnect it and take over.

Two pilots in a cockpit with illuminated displays at night

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 1h

‘Spaceship’ passing Batumi in Georgia at 45,000 feet
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour

Cockpit view of city lights far below and stars above

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 8h

From Harwich to Dover in one frame with crepuscular rays
#PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Scape

The UK east coast under converging blue shadow rays in a salmon and orange sky in this cockpit view

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 1d

Not at night it doesn’t. That’s moonlight.

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! Sometimes it feels like you’re in a spaceship (with fresh catering)

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 1d

The moon, Orion and Jupiter over Turkey’s Black Sea coast
#Scape #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour

A motion blurred coastline at night with moon and stars from 45,000 feet

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-crepuscular rays over the Isle of Thanet
#Scape #EastCoastKin #StormHour

A peninsula at dusk, the surrounding sea shrouded in cloud and above, converging blue shadow rays in a salmon sky

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 1d

Ursa Major and Orion with Jupiter over a moonlight sea, a star #scape
#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #PanoPhotos

A panoramic view of the Earth from 45,000 feet, the moonlit clouds and Caspian Sea appearing curved due to a fisheye lens (I wish I could show the curvature of the Earth but it’s not readily apparent at this altitude). In the starry sky you can see Ursa Major (Big Dipper/Great Bear) on the left and Orion on the right with Jupiter in between.

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 3d

Inverse nominative determinism as usual with our Jimmy

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 5d

Wow!

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, that gets a follow right there!

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 6d

Autumn is reaching down from the mountains in north east Turkey by the Black Sea with Batumi in Georgia and then Mount Elbrus in Russia on the horizon.
#PhotoHour #Autumn #Stunday #EastCoastKin

Snow capped ridges ringed with autumn colour rise over still green forested valleys. A blue sea and distant white peak on the horizon beyond a curving coastline. Image taken from 40,000 feet.

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 6d

Above the clouds of Storm Amy
#StormAmy #Stunday #ClassicMono #StormHour #EastCoastKin

Cockpit view from 43,000 feet of sunlit storm clouds under a space-black sky

Cockpit view from 43,000 feet of sunlit storm clouds under a rayed sun in a space-black sky

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 8d

Hah! Busted!😃

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks guys! It’s amazing and growing! Spectacular modern architecture everywhere

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute banger Jaycee!

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social · 8d

'Architectural Musicality' (2022) -- a Long Layover in the
Airport Terminal Affords Me an Arresting Visual of Shapes & Movement at Sunset, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia

#UrbanGaze

#Photography #Architecture
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

musical shapes in the smooth & glossy architecture of the domestic terminal dance as the light falls during a nearly lavender tinged sunset in the distance

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 9d

It’s quite the city! Thank you

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 9d

Reposting this one with an improved Alt text, white balance and exposure:

Astana, City on the Steppe and Capital of Kazakhstan
7-Artisans 7.5mm f/2.8 fisheye lens
#Scape #Cityscape #EastCoastKin #PanoPhotos #PhotoHour #Kazakhstan

Long exposure of city lights. In the centre, Khan Shatyr (Kazakh: Хан Шатыр, romanized: Han Şatyr, lit. ' Grand Marquee') is a transparent tent-shaped Entertainment Center located in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. Built in a neo-futurist style, the architectural project was unveiled by the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on December 9, 2006. The 90-metre (300 ft) high tent (150 m (490 ft) including the spire) has a 200-by-195-metre (656 ft × 640 ft) elliptical base covering 140,000 square metres (14 ha; 35 acres). Under the tent, an area larger than 10 football fields, is an urban-scale park, shopping and entertainment venue with squares and cobbled streets, a boating river, shopping centre, minigolf and indoor beach resort. The fabric roof is constructed from ETFE-cushions provided by Vector Foiltec, suspended on a network of cables strung from a central spire. The transparent material allows sunlight through which, in conjunction with the stack effect, air heating and cooling systems, is designed to maintain an internal temperature between 15–30 °C (59–86 °F) in the main space and 19–24 °C (66–75 °F) in the retail units, while outside the temperature varies between −35 and 35 °C (−31 and 95 °F) across the year.

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Guys!

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like a vortex…that swirly bokeh!

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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 12d

😃

Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · 13d

a blue suitcase is sitting on the ground in the middle of a forest with the words take cover above it .

ALT: a blue suitcase is sitting on the ground in the middle of a forest with the words take cover above it .

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