Photography // Cold Airport Nights
One chilly Saturday night, B and I were looking for something to do……
So we took settled on one camera + a handful of sparklers and a drive to the end of the Gold Coast Air Port…..the perfect recipe for light painting!
Just as we arrived and got out of the car, an incoming plane flew directly over our heads and as it came into land we could hear this strange papery crackling sound overhead. We had parked under power lines and looking up, thought that perhaps a surge of power had passed through the lines.
After getting all our gear out of the car we walked across the park to a picnic table to set up and take photos – a little while later another plane came flying in and as we looked up to see it passing overhead we once again could hear the same rustling crackle above us. It literally sounded like a giant was scrunching large pieces of celophane above us!
Being the curious soul that I am, I did a bit of research and so far I have come to the conclusion that it was wake turbulence caused by the wingtip vortices, static electricity discharge or more unlikely (but I just like the thought of writing it) – a sonic boom!??
I’ve never heard it before and find it ever so intriguing!!!
Had a lot of fun with B doing these, although towards the end it started to get pretty cold and I was very happy to get back to the warm car!!
