A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
287: Airplane
When we see a plane flying over our heads, preferably high in the blue or slightly cloudy sky, our minds are flying too: far away, as far as possible, to the destinations of our dreams. It’s hard to see on this photo which society is the owner of this plane, but probably it’s an Alitalia service, possibly on its way to the Eternal City: Rome. A flight of about ten hours, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Only a century ago, tourists and migrants had to have a lot more patience: at that time, the same crossing took some weeks …
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2010, 2017
Adriano Antoine 