United Airlines Rainbow at Chicago O Hare airport 13th April 2007

7 Responses to “United Airlines Rainbow at Chicago O Hare airport”

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Jeff Ambrose:

Right place, right time. Nicely done.

April 13th, 2007 at 03:23
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bryce:

It\'s Chicago! You can see the red hilton hotel sign behind the terminal. :)

April 14th, 2007 at 21:38
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April:

Wow, looks like an advertisement!

April 15th, 2007 at 06:30
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mc:

Phenomenal shot! Best photo I have ever seen of a runway at an airport.

April 17th, 2007 at 08:38
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jason:

beautiful mix of nature and industry

April 19th, 2007 at 03:28
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Another Jason:

Confirmation that it Chicago O\'Hare

July 23rd, 2007 at 01:52
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ExposedPlanet via Pete Delosreyes:

Comment by email:
From: Pete Delosreyes
Message: The pictures that you posted about the rainbow in washington dulles airport is WRONG it is supposed to titled rainbow in chicago o’hare airport because that is the right place were that picture was taken to be exact gate c-9 in terminal 1
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Thanks for the note Pete. It was already confirmed by ‘Another Jason’, but now I also changed the title of the page (though the title on the image will remain wrong until I have a lot of time on my hands :)

October 11th, 2010 at 19:30

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The story behind "United Airlines Rainbow at Chicago O Hare airport"

I really cannot remember if this was at Washington Dulles or Chicago airport, anyone?
UPDATE: as a few people have pointed out in the comments, this is actually in Chicago. I changed the title of the post, but the wrong title will remain on teh photo, you will need to ignore this :)

Anyway, it was during a trip with many stopovers a few years ago and here I had to wait a few hours extra as a giant thunderstorm successfully tried to keep all planes grounded. While everybody was looking sleepily at their feet and at the numerous Delayed notices at the screens, I was watching the planes outside and suddenly saw this rainbow appear for only a minute or so, perfectly framing the United Airlines plane that was taxiing…

I am not advocating flight travel and always try to offset my polluting actions, but sometimes the combination of nature and those who are destroying her come of with visually surprising combinations :)

Shot on provia slide with Canon Eos 3 through the glass of the terminal window, I think in June 2003

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