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Backlight aviation photography: the hardest light in plane photography!
Professional aviation photographer Kris Christiaens gives you plenty of tips and advice on how to take beautiful and creative photos of airplanes and helicopters in backlight. It's not the most easy light. But it's the light that tends to separate a technically correct photo from one people actually stop scrolling to look at.

Kris Christiaens


Air Legend 2024
Full photo report of the Air Legend 2024 airshow at the Melun-Villaroche aerodrome in France. Air Legend 2024 was a fantastic weekend for anyone who loves historic aircraft and aviation history. The highlight was seeing rare warbirds such as the P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang and F4U Corsair flying together, something you simply don't see at many European airshows. Overall, Air Legend 2024 was an impressive and memorable show, with nearly 50,000 visitors!

Kris Christiaens


Shuttleworth Summer Airshow 2026
Full photo report Kris Christiaens of the Shuttleworth Summer Airshow 2026 at the Old Warden aerodrome, United Kingdom. This fantastic airshow was entirely dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the iconic Supermarine Spitfire warbird. In addition to no fewer than eleven Spitfires, numerous other magnificent vintage aircraft also took to the skies that day, including the Miles Hawk Speed Six, the de Havilland DH.88 Comet, the Avro C19 Anson and the Polish Li

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Stampe Forever Fly-In 2026
A detailed photo report made by aviation photographer Kris Christiaens of the Stampe Forever Fly-In 2026, held at Antwerp International Airport in Belgium. During this event, more than 4,000 visitors came to Deurne (Antwerp) to admire SV-4 biplanes and numerous other beautiful vintage aircraft, both on the ground and in the air.

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