Im not sure how big this picture is going to appear, so if it is hard to see, click here: Amazing pictures
This is a picture taken by a Flickr user of an airport. The white lines you can see going into the air is acutally areoplanes. How is this done? Well on most cameras, there is a setting where you can adust how long the shutter is open (when taking a normal picture the shutter is open for less than a second!). Using a long shutter speed must only be done at night, because in daylight too much light gets into the sensor so all you get is a white screen. The lights on the front of the aircraft are what the white lines actually are. Because of the long shutter the lights 'drag' across the screen so you can see the path they take.
The picture shows the different paths the planes come from. Obviously they dont all come at the same time, they come at regular intervals. The shutter is just open for a long period of time.
If you go onto the persons Flickr page you can see some other work he has done.
Also if you look at the picture in fullscreen you can see the end of the planes where they have stayed still. I can see a few virgin, a quantus, and a few others. I think this picture is absolutly brilliant so i needed to share it with you!
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