Commercial Aviation 2015 Photo Contest Finalists

A Southwest Airlines 737 makes a winter departure from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas.

I was fortunate to be on site for the arrival of FedEx's first Boeing 767-300F.  For this shot, on site meant laying on the taxiway while the crew stopped for a photo op.

A 30-second exposure of the de-icing process in the early morning hours on the ramp at Springfield-Branson National Airport, Springfield, Missouri.

The nightly lineup on the ramp at Los Angeles International Airport.

My first officer poses for a night cockpit shot somewhere over the western United States.

The view over Tel Aviv.

A giant not needing an introduction. Here she is, photographed head on, highlighting her presence with wings that reach the edges of the taxiway at Auckland International Airport on April 17.

A long exposure shot of a Qantas 737 landing on Runway 05R at Auckland International Airport. The end result is brilliant light-stream trails from the lights on the aircraft.

A technician peers through the core of a jet engine in Iran.

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 passes over the famous In-N'-Out Burger just prior to landing at Los Angeles International Airport.

Looking directly down at a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 in the airline's new livery while it taxis to its gate at Los Angeles International Airport.

Korean Air A330-300 departs from Narita International Airport Runway 34L.

Taken from Cessna 172 at 5,000 ft.

A flower of ice covers this 737 engine prior to deicing in Dallas.

A UPS MD-11 paves a highway in the sky on takeoff from Minneapolis to its home base in Louisville, Kentucky.

A Delta Airbus A330-300 climbs out of Minneapolis on a warm spring night as it prepares to race away from the setting sun toward Amsterdam.

Airliner on short final to Dallas Love Field.

An airliner transits the Supermoon on Aug. 15, taken from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Airbus enroute to John F. Kennedy International Airprt. The photo was taken in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 777 on final to Osaka-Itami airport in the evening.

Air-to-Air.

Air-to-Air.

A Lufthansa A380 awaits departure clearance on Runway 28R while a United Express/Skywest CRJ-200 lands on Runway 28L.  The CRJ can easily be confused as an appendage on the Super Airbus!

Beaver N8190Y in the West Fork of the Ruth Glacier, Mount Denali, Alaska.

DeHavilland Beaver N8190Y on the Ruth Glacier at the base of Mount Denali.

View from the end of Terminal 2E at Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport with planes moving in the air and on the ground.

JetBlue Flight 951 leaves Boston's Logan International Airport in heavy fog, casting a shadow as it passes the sun.

Over Boston, the massive Emirates Airbus A380, Flight EK204 from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to Dubai shadows itself.

LOT Polish Airlines flight from , New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to Warsaw, at 35,175 ft. high, is seen with the Moon above Boston.

Learjet ready for flight after the first snowstorm of 2015 in Fairbanks, Alaska.