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: