Biman Across the Setting Sun, Dhaka

I'd gone up to a rooftop near Hazrat Shahjalal airport in Dhaka to watch the planes against the evening sky. The winter haze over the city turns the sun into a soft orange disc you can look straight at — no glare, just the shape of it, sometimes even the sunspots.

The trick is the timing. Planes leave the airport in a steady stream, but lining one up to cross the sun is mostly luck and a lot of waiting. This Biman jet came through just as the sun sat low, and I held the burst until it cleared the disc.

Shot on the X-T5 with the XC 50-230mm racked out to 230mm — 1/2000 at f/6.7, ISO 3200 — fast enough to freeze the jet while exposing for the sun, so the plane reads almost as a silhouette against the disc. A few seconds later it was gone and the sun dropped into the haze.