Sunrise Contrail

I can't resist.  Neither taking pictures of airplanes or posting this one.  Trust me, I've taken more pictures of airplanes than you can imagine.  Mostly before the folks that ran Hartsfileld-Jackson in Atlanta made it a real hassle.  But I still can't resist.  Right in the middle of this morning's sunrise, this guy went over with a contrail that lit up unlike any other I've ever seen.  And trust me, I've seen a lot of contrails at sunrise too.

For the airplane geeks:  It's Turkish Airlines 184 (TK184) out of Istanbul headed for Mexico City.  A Boeing 787-9 at 38,000 (FL380 I suppose).  (Thank you FlightRadar24.) As Jimmy Buffet would sing, "That's a mighty long airplane ride."

Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

300mm

F8@1/100th (What do you want out of my life?  I was shooting a sunrise.)

ISO 400

Cropped

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