Aviation has been a passion of mine since my early childhood. The fascination of witnessing an aircraft overcoming the perils of gravity has never ceased to amaze me. Over the years I have been lucky enough to travel all over the world several times and, as such, have had quite a few opportunities to photograph at unique places, such as the Californian desert, St.Martin, Honolulu, Cuzco, Hong Kong, Quito, Auckland, Sydney to name a few. Besides being interested in planes both technically and historically I have grown especially fond of embedding an aircraft into a typical surrounding of a landscape, which is best possible if one can shoot from an elevated vantage point (in my opinion) ...