Shots from the 1950s and 60s compiled by AirlineRatings.com, it is a flying experience totally foreign to me. If I could get this sort of experience at the prices I pay today, I'd be all for it.
German photographer Dietmar Eckell trekked to 15 remote plane wrecks (each crash was completely free of fatalities) for his project “Happy End” capturing these images of the fuselages anywhere from 10-70 years after the fact.
trailer for the crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo: 'happy end' the photobook about miracles in aviation history 15 airplanes abondoned in nowhere all on board survived the crash landings all were rescued from the remote location the airplanes remain abandoned since 10-70 years music: boards of canada - arno bishop roden
His indigogo project to turn this series into a glossy book are well underway.
Update: This was featured on Discovery Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-gRVC2cvE Ask me anything: ask.fm/miltonforce -------- Like fireflies at night, or cars drifting over invisible roads in the sky. It’s simply amazing to see what airplanes look like when flying at night when shot at long exposures! The Air Traffic is a personal timelapse project which I shot over a period of about 6 months. One night while shooting a timelapse of lightning going off in the sky during a storm from my living room's window (00:18), I noticed little streaks of light moving across the frame. Living about a 10-minute drive away from the airport, the streaks of light were none other than airplanes flying to and from the airport. Then it struck me - To do a whole timelapse short film dedicated to airplanes flying at night. Some of my favorite shots were captured when I got really close to the airport's runway where airplanes take off and land. That was where I managed to capture some pretty huge streaks of light as the airplanes got really close to ground level and ready to land. The streaks of light are long exposures of the airplanes flying, about 8-15 seconds. Most of it was shot at Changi Beach in Singapore. ------------------- Website: http://MiltonTan.com Contact me: photo@miltontan.com FB: facebook.com/MiltonTanPhotography The Air Traffic - A Milton Tan Film - Shot with Canon cameras, processed in Lightroom, edited in Premiere Pro
Photographer Milton Tan:
“Living about a 10-minute drive away from the airport, the streaks of light were none other than airplanes flying to and from the airport,. Then it struck me — to do a whole time-lapse short film dedicated to airplanes flying at night.”
from the video page:
"Over 3,400 separate images combined to make this time lapse video from a Boeing 747-400 en route from Tokyo's Narita Airport to San Francisco. That's Venus leading the sunrise."
Princess Juliana International Airport on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten, is remarkably close to a public beach. Photographer Josef Hoflehner and his son Jakob Hoflehner have taken these extraordinary photos for his book, Jet Airliner: The Complete Works.
“It’s is an extraordinary place,” Josef Hoflehner said via email. “There simply isn't anything like this airport anywhere on the planet. With all the heightened security we have today, one can not get that close to a plane anywhere else without buying a ticket.”
And the Sci Channel has a video of the many crazy people getting really really close to it.
San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart has spent 5 years creating this meticulous model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders.
It is fascinating to see our obsessions made actual.
via Colossal
Being a photographer AND a commercial pilot gives Karim Nafatni some great opportunities to capture these outstanding images of the cockpit.
At the AIPAD Photography Show in New York from April 4 to 7, American photographer Jeffrey Milstein will show a collection from his ongoing ‘AirCraft: The Jet as Art‘ series 2013.
Large-scale photos of the planes shot at the instant when the aircraft was overhead.
“They are an attempt to share my sense of wonder. Watching a mammoth Boeing 747 gracefully gliding overhead on the way to touch down never ceases to amaze me, but they are also a meditation on how technology can be a double-edged sword when things go wrong” says Jeffrey.
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