Airline pilots see all kinds of cool stuff which we, riding in the back of the plane, will never get to. Enter Christiaan van Heijst, who’s not only a commercial cargo pilot on a Boeing 747, but a photographer as well. Van Heijst brings his camera gear aboard and, once aloft, shoots some magnificent sights:
Photography geeks among you, van Heijst has written up technical descriptions of how he shoots these on PetaPixel.