From 40,000 feet high, storm pilot photographer Santiago Borja captures a series of breathtaking images of the most intense of storms. (Courtesy of Santiago Borja) A former software systems engineer, Mr. Borja is from Ecuador and flies a Boeing 767 for a major airline in the region.
Before becoming a storm photographer , Mr. Borja was interested in photography as a hobby and used an old film camera—which he inherited from his father—before moving to a digital SLR.
“ Storms always fascinated me, and I kept wondering how I could capture such beautiful and amazing phenomena ,” he said. “I tried different settings and techniques until I finally came up with a way to consistently capture storms from a moving airplane.” An active storm is quickly rising over hot, humid Amazonia forests. Mr. Borja flies over this area frequently as […]
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