Every passenger has their favorite seat, though each has its own advantages. Being on a plane doesn’t leave us with many options to spend our time other than sleep, the small screen or food, but the lucky ones with a perhaps prefer a window seat to look into space through which the plane slides.
Suddenly, the clouds, the sun’s rays or the colors of the night create natural scenes that hardly goes unnoticed; Who hasn’t tried to capture these scenes in a photo? Not only do the airplane pilots join this animation, but they also have the best view. play with their cameras.
Photo: Short Final, © Santiago Borja.
Discover the world through aerial photography
Two pictures of pilots that have appeared are those of Ecuadorian Santiago Borja and the Danish Christiaan van Heijst. At a height of about ten thousand meters, these leaders They spend their rest hours on long flights hunting for the best views.
To achieve this, they can use the conditions of the cabin. This space has windows on three of its four sides and The material they are made from is of better quality than the body of the aircraft.. The above reduces the intensity of that reflection of the interior lights which sometimes destroys the pictures of passengers.
Borja and Van Heijst have become a reference in aerial photography, because they have gone through storms, northern lights and clear sky covered with stars which shows us everything that happens in the Earth’s atmosphere. Here are some of the ephemeral landscapes they managed to capture in an image:
From the heights, it is possible to understand how round the Earth is. Photo: Greenland, © Christiaan van Heijst
This year, Van Heijst won the Moscow International Photo Award in the science category. Photo: sunrise and sunset, © Christiaan van Heijst
Borja has a published book titled #TheStormPilot. Photo: Admiration, © Santiago Borja.
The Dane began experimenting with aerial photography of Middle Eastern and African landscapes. Photo: Afghanistan, © Christiaan van Heijst
With this image of a cumulonimbus storm, the Ecuadorian won third place as the best photographer of the year, nature category, by National Geographic. Photo: Pacific Storm, © Santiago Borja.
Electrical activity is not expected on the other side of the clouds on dry land. Photo: Bombing, © Santiago Borja.
It is in the Amazon and the Caribbean that the photographer finds the most unusual weather conditions. Light the Way, © Santiago Borja.
The Dane pilots a Cargo Boeing 747-8, so he flies on routes not used by commercial aircraft. Photo: A Place Among the Stars, © Christiaan van Heijst
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2024-04-26 15:36:58
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