비행기 조종석에서 보는 아름다운 풍광 사진 - 크리스티안 반 헤지스트(Christiaan van Heijst) 사진 소개

크리스티안 반 헤지스트(Christiaan van Heijst)는 비행기를 조정하는 부기장이다. 그는 비행도중 만난 아름다운 풍광을 카메라에 담기 시작했고 이를 인스타그램에 공유해왔다.
최근(2016년 9월) 그의 사진이 언론에 보도되면서 널리 알려졌는데 뉴스로 보았던 그의 사진을 그의 인스타그램을 방문해 보고 그동안 언론에 공유된 사진을 중심으로 여기에 공유해본다.

비행기에서 볼 수 있는 멋진 풍광이라 멋진 주제임에는 틀림이 없다.

크리스티안 반 헤지스트(Christiaan van Heijst) 인스타그램 계정

▽ 베이징에서 상하이로가는 비행중에 만난 폭풍 구름,
Flying somewhere between Beijing and Shanghai, we encountered a very active weatherfront with beautiful and very active thunderstorms. The cloud here seen on our left started to appear on our weather radar only a few minutes before and started to show off an amazing display of lightning that grew ever more intense. When we got closer, we saw that the cloud was going to burst through our flight path and we had to deviate up to 10km to avoid flying into this cell. Growing with a speed of up to 5000/6000ft per minute (1,5-2km per minute) straight up into the air, this was certainly a hazard to our airplane if we didnt fly around her.
The beauty of nightflights in Asia this time of the year.

▽ 인디아 상공을 지나면서 담은 은하수,
The Milkyway clearly visible on a nightflight over cloudy India. Hundreds of billions of stars, and their light is already underway for sometimes more then hundred thousand years.. all the way to the sensor of my camera 🙂

▽ 이집트에 있는 Sinai 반도에서 장노출로 담아본 은하수,
A long exposure shot over the dark Sinai peninsula in Egypt. When the air is completely stable, sometimes its possible to make photos with extremely long exposures so the camera can catch every bit of light that’s out there. Far away cities, camp fires and settlements on the ground, but most of all the countless billions of stars that paint the sky high above.
At certain times in the year, we can look into the core of our own galaxy, which shows like a long band of ‘milky’ light, hence the name Milky Way. A huge concentration of so many stars and nebulae that all are spread out over distances our human brain can simply not comprehend.

▽ 미 북서부를 덮치고 있는 푹풍 구름,
A very heavy thunderstorm, cumulonimbus cloud, over the North Western part of the United States. If you look closely you can see how the air is being sucked up from all around the cloud all the way up the core of the cloud into the stratosphere.

At this time of the year many very powerful and intense clouds grow up from the heated and moist surface and grow into major storms that require airplanes to deviate for many miles off their route. At night a spectacular lightshow, not less impressive during the day.

▽ 캐나다 상공을 지나면서 담은 오로라,
A beautiful show of Northern Lights over Canada, while a few active thunderstorms are illuminating the atmosphere from below. One of the most impressive things I have ever seen'

▽ 독일 서부를 지나면서 담은 사진으로 안개사이로 보이는 수백개의 풍력발전기가 압권이다,
Hundreds of windmills sticking their heads out of the mist-covered hills over Western Germany.

▽ 빛내림

▽ Anchorage(알래스카에 있는 지방자치도시)로 착륙하려 하강하는 순간에 담은 빛내림,
While descending into Anchorage, we glide over the most jaw-dropping sceneries and landscapes that the world has to offer. Alaska is truly the 'Last Frontier' with little to no human civilization to be seen.

▽ 태평상 상공을 지나면서 만난 일출,
A dramatic sunrise, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.

▽ 베트남 호치민시에서 중국 Zhengzhou로 가는 비해기안에서 만난 일출,
This was, by far, one of the most amazing sunrises me and my (very experienced) colleague have ever seen; flying from Ho Chi Minh (Saigon, Vietnam) to Zhengzhou (China) last Friday October 14th and flying over Northern Vietnam.
Where we’d normally see a bright band of the the most magnificent colours and hues one could possibly imagine, this familiar show was now clearly interrupted by a series of dark lines; shadows of a huge cloud that must be hiding somewhere over the far edge of the Earths curvature.
Looking on the Significant Weather Chart of Asia and the Western Pacific area, we could only come to one simple conclusion; the extremely high and active Typhoon named ‘Sarika’, just South of Taipei, now hitting the Philippines as we speak, created these unique features.
The tops of the clouds were building up to 56.000ft, or equal to 16km above sea level. Those very clouds break the sun rays into the atmosphere and show the big lines of darkness that probe into the upper atmosphere like a show of shadow-puppets, played by the extreme forces of nature.
And on top of that; planet Venus showing her presence as if its nothing.
What a show…