Being a pilot, you get to see a bunch of beautiful sights from above. Being a pilot for a South American airline, you also get to witness the stunning phenomena of storms as your job requires flying over regions that experience them.
Meet Santiago Borja Lopez – a Quito, Ecuador-based pilot who works for Ecuador Airlines. Whenever the pilot is off-duty, he pulls out his camera to capture the magnificent sights he witnesses in air. From incredible storms to even lightning bolts – the photos he captures are truly magnificent. Keep on scrolling to take a look and follow Santiago’s journey on Instagram.
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#1 ‘A Colossal Cumulonimbus Flashes Over The Pacific Ocean As We Circle Around It At 37000 Feet En Route To South America’
#2 ‘I’ve Never Seen Lightning Like This One’
#3 An Ominous Storm Over Panama City
#4 Night Flashes, Atlantic Ocean
#5 Night Sky
#6 A Magnificent Storm Developing Over The Atlantic Ocean, A Few Miles South Of Jamaica
#7 Magic
#8 Flying Over The Colombian Amazonia About To Enter Ecuadorian Airspace To Descend Over The Andes Into Guayaquil
#9 Tormenta, Coast Of Venezuela, South America
#10 Mooning Around, Super Moon, At 2,900m In Quito, Ecuador
#11 Fugaz, Atlantic Ocean, North Of Panama City
#12 ‘Looking Like A Nuclear Explosion, This Great Cumulonimbus Is Discharging Its Power Over Colombian Rainforest’
#13 The Amazonia Between Ecuador And Colombia
#14 Atomic Storm
#15 Soaring, Guayaquil, Ecuador
#16 Cloud City, Quito, Ecuador
#17 A Storm Over Colombian Amazonia
#18 Blinding Storm
#19 Sunset, Quito, Ecuador
#20 The Orbit In An Atmosphere Unknown, Ecuador
#21 One Of Those Clear Days Over Miami
#22 Vertical Development, Ecuador
#23 Cruising Out, Quito, Ecuador
#24 Fierce, Guayaquil, Ecuador
#25 Storm Hour, Amazonia, South America