My featured image for May continues my current obsession with aircraft contrails. This picture was taken at the Lick Observatory near San Jose California a few days ago. The many observatory domes at Lick house a variety of telescopes perched on top of a mountain beloved of crazy cyclists who sweat to the top in droves. To me, these domes are like the eyes of the earth looking towards the heavens – while I always imagine the people in planes flying overhead looking down at us: - so the combination of the two was simply irresistible.
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Contrails are created at high altitude (they are actually made of ice) where planes are usually flying straight, so the curve of this particular contrail around the dome is a rarity that really makes the composition.
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