My story
It started with a Steam account.
In 2014 my dad set one up for me with X-Plane 10 on it. I started out just messing around, and somewhere along the way it turned into a real interest in aviation. X-Plane 11 followed, then 12, and around 2020 I got into DCS.
In 2021 I picked up my mom’s old Nikon D40X and pointed it at the real thing. My dad would drive me an hour to a hill in Istanbul that overlooks the runway, where the arrivals come in right over your head. He saw potential in what I was doing, and in 2023 he got me a D7500. We bought it in Bulgaria, passing through on the way home from a road trip to Montenegro, and stopped at Sofia Airport to try it out. In Istanbul you are at least 300 metres from any edge of the airport. In Sofia I was standing at the fence, right beside the taxiway.
From there it grew quickly. In 2024 I went to the 8 Hours of Bahrain. In 2025 I started going to airshows, we found a reasonably priced Nikon Z8, and in November I was back in Bahrain for the race. Then came 2026, my breakthrough year: the Greek Mach Loop, Iniochos a week later, and the NATO Tiger Meet at Araxos. After a quiet summer I did three airshows in three weeks: the Swedish Air Force’s 100th anniversary show at Malmen, the Bucharest International Air Show and Athens Flying Week.
At Athens I watched F-4 Phantom tail number 01504 crash during its display. We didn’t know the crew, but we had seen them before, taxiing past us and waving. I couldn’t sleep properly for weeks, and I stepped away from spotting for a while. I went out into nature instead, got a drone and started hiking with friends. That is where the landscapes on this site come from.
Everything here comes from those years: the jets, the airliners, the race cars and the quiet days in between. If you’d like to use a photo, or you just want to talk aircraft, get in touch.