It’s a luxury to be able to see many great cities and take my camera with me. My job is basically all about how well you can manage your own body. Most layovers are quite short, and after a long night up and lack of sleep you have to be able to fight the sleep and to go explore those miraculous cities. “I explore a lot in the cities that I go to. Normally on these days off I would travel to far exotic places, but I have family visiting in Hong Kong so I decided to show them around instead.” What benefits are there to being a pilot combined with your love for travel and photography? This will give me more days off after the flights but can also be quite tiring. Since I am doing a super compact roster which is when I do 2 return flights back to back.
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After long flights I normally get multiple days off.Īs I am writing this I am actually enjoying 2 full weeks off (let’s call it a two-week long weekend). Therefore when I am in Hong Kong I am mostly sleeping in quite late and go to bed quite late too. Most of my flights depart after midnight which requires me to stay up at the other side of my body clock. These normally take around 10 hours up to 16 hours. Which means long flights to Europe, North America and another couple of routes. “At this moment of my career, I only do long haul. As well as other deals, such as on cars and hotels for example.” What is your normal day like as a pilot? Besides flying for work to amazing places, you also get heavy discounts on airline tickets (which is normally a holidays highest cost). This job is just perfect for being a semi-pro travel and landscape photographer. However, if you enjoy what you do, you will get good at what you do, therefore your study/work gets easier as a result. Getting qualified as a pilot takes passion and perseverance. Also, I actually did a university degree during my training as a pilot. It’s a pretty full on programme, since we probably do as much work as somebody would to get a uni degree. It also took me two years of intense studies. I thought the training itself would be the most difficult thing, not realising that it would take me 2.5 years of networking and working really hard to get that dream job. This is because you have to pay a lot of money for training with not a lot of jobs prospects lying ahead. There is not a lot of jobs that require travel for work, but becoming a pilot nowadays is quite risky. “I became a pilot because I thought the lifestyle and travel looked very attractive. I also like to use colour themes, so every now and then I use another colour as a base of my posts.” Why did you become a pilot and what was the process for you to get qualified? If you scroll through my Instagram page you can probably tell that for yourself. Therefore I try to use a lot of vivid colours. Such as highlighting the real colours and contrast. However, as I progressed and got a bit better at editing and photography I tried to keep my photos a bit more natural. As a result, I developed a pretty moody theme as well. When I started the whole moody theme was quite popular.
So by buying a more expensive camera (D750) I basically forced myself to actually put the time in to get better and really start developing my photography skills.” How would you describe your photography style? Also, I was looking for a hobby which consumed time and needed creativity. After talking to multiple people I realised getting myself an entry-level camera and eventually upgrading would cost me more money in the long run. A GoPro is an amazing gadget but for those unbelievable landscapes you need a DSLR. I realised when I was in Hawaii that I lacked a real scale. How did you get started in photography and Instagram? Hopefully, I can take you on one of my journeys through social media.” It’s the world as I see it and I like to share that with the people that follow me. For now my photos are more like a personal documentary without me in them. Capturing a place and showing its vastness is my goal and therefore sometimes I need multiple tries before getting the required result.īesides having a stable career in aviation, I would like to achieve a bit more with my photography. This allows me to capture the finest landscapes and those valuable travel moments. I try to fly around the world not only for work but also on my time off. I am a semi-professional travel and landscape photographer and a pilot based out of Hong Kong. Please could you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about what you do? Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a pilot and what travel opportunities you may get from this career path? In this article we hope to answer those questions with this exclusive interview with pilot and travel photographer Tom de Waart.
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