
Sonny Vandevelde
Fashion should be fun and with my photography I love to create those fun moments.
Travel
Helsinki > Tokyo AY73
I've flown to Tokyo once before on a re route, but I have never actually been to Tokyo
couple of hours transit in Helsinki airport and back on board for next leg
ready to take off
take off
should be an interesting flight today
heading due north 350 something degrees
straight over the north pole and down the other side
would normally fly east, but thanks to Putin, we no longer fly over Russian airspace and instead fly up and over and down ( see flight track at bottom of the post )
layers
lots going on
Finland
a lot of clouds around
near Oulu ?
with going up and over on this close to 13 hour flight, I was wondering if I will get more than one sunset
when I saw those colours on the horizon I thought, yes, maybe, but not to be , sun just did not set at all, was middle of the day sun all the way, all the time
thick cover
and that sun is not setting
swirls
so much going on in this photo love it
where we are
doesn't look real
a lot of cloud cover
Longyearbyen, and on google maps, there is just nothing on this island
normally, when you click on an area on google maps, it will give at least a prvince/district and or country, zip zilch nothing
Glaciers, at the very northern tip of Nordaustlandet, Uninhabited, nature reserve island featuring many large ice caps, tundra, reindeer & walruses.
getting closer to the north pole
and ice
thick cloud cover, but every now and then I can see a bit of ice
east of the north pole
so much cloud
but again, a glimpse of the ice every now and then
would be great to see the view from the cockpit
ice
interesting formation
passing the north pole
and heading south now , after bearing north for about 4 hours plus
ice
thick cloud again
getting close to west coast Alaska
Bering Sea
near the Kuril Islands
off the coast of the Japan now
wish the cloud cover was more like this when we flew around the north pole
about an hour out now
slowly descending
great shapes
and there we go, my first look at Japan, Chosi
Tone River at Chosi Port
use your imagination
and you see Godzilla in the clouds
Sudahama beach
and yes, there is surf here
clouds
Sawara Higashi
Tokyo farm land
Shintone river next to the Tone
landed, let the Tokyo adventure begin
interesting flight map
straight up
and then down
heading to Tokyo
final approach to Narita