Above the clouds, the sun always shines.
Being able to photograph a two-seat Dassault Rafale (Rafale means Storm Flurry, by the way) of the French Air Force just above the cloud cover, in the sunlight, during my first and, for the time being, only air-to-air photo shoot in 2018. The green color of the Head Up Display in the cockpit stands out well from the sunlight falling on it.
I took this photo on September 6, 2018 in Belgian airspace. This aircraft was on its way to Kleine Brogel Air Base where the Belgian Air Force Days were held.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…