Taxiway Lights
Taxiway edge lights sit about 12 inches off the ground and are no more than 10 feet outward from the edge of the full strength pavement. In other words, to get this shot you need to lay down in the grass or dirt and, as luck would have it, it was wet. This was truly one of those sunsets that made me stop and look, it was perfect, so wet or not, I couldn’t let this one go.
I had gotten permission from the tower chief and airport manager to shoot some pictures from the infield grass earlier in the day. I had seen this sunset coming about an hour before it occurred and I wanted to get a good shot of an aircraft silhouette using this as the background. But when I got into position the airfield was dead quiet, nothing was moving, not even the birds. Just as the sun disappeared below the horizon and I was about to “call it” the runway and taxiway lights came on. I noticed the blue against the orange background and thought this would make a better shot than any ordinary silhouette I originally set out to get. As it turned out, it wasn’t such a bad idea. You never know what might happen when your original plan goes all to hell.
Never put the camera away, you just never know when the “moment” might happen.
