Yesterday was Palomar Day, the day when the setting sun lines up perfectly with the runway at McClellan-Palomar Airport. I set out in the late afternoon to get the picture, and after a picturesque drive down Interstate 5 I headed for a spot I had been to before that offered a perfect view of the airport. Here's what I saw when I got there:
It turns out my spot was no secret. There were half a dozen guys there with expensive cameras and huge telephoto lenses mounted on monster tripods, all snapping away at the sun.
But I managed to squeeze in and get plenty of pictures of my own. My best one is a composite of the sun dipping below the horizon and an earlier shot that caught a private plane taking off. Isn't Photoshop a marvel?
Cool shot. Good job with the composite. Photoshop is fun.
Photoshop is science fiction.
But now add in Charlie and Hilbert on the wings.
Why not just pop the Millennium Falcon and triceratops in there too?
Some might call it “alternate facts…”