On its final flight, NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour overfly’s Menlo Park onboard the 747-100 shuttle carrier aircraft N105NA. This was the last flight for both the shuttle orbiter and the 747.
This image was shot from one of the hills in Menlo Park’s Bedwell Bayfront Park – with me being among several hundred others who had gathered on the park’s hilltops for this tribute flight.
I was very lucky to get this shot. The 747 had begun a gentle turn to the right, just dropping its right wing – which gave the illusion that I was flying right alongside – instead of standing on a hill in a park! Beautiful!
Shot using a Canon 5D Mark II using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens with a Canon 1.4x Tele-extender. Shot in Shutter Priority at 1/1000th of a second, ISO 100, f/5.6.
Post processed in Adobe Lightroom 4 where it was cropped to at 16:9 ratio and adjusted using a bit of clarity applied just to the aircraft with the adjustment brush with a bit of post-crop vignette.