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. You can read more about one of Santiago’s shots in our previous article.
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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’
Image source: Santiago Borja Lopez
#2 ‘I’ve Never Seen Lightning Like This One’
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#3 Night Flashes, Atlantic Ocean
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#4 An Ominous Storm Over Panama City
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#5 Night Sky
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#6 Magic
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#7 Tormenta, Coast Of Venezuela, South America
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#8 Flying Over The Colombian Amazonia About To Enter Ecuadorian Airspace To Descend Over The Andes Into Guayaquil
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#9 A Magnificent Storm Developing Over The Atlantic Ocean, A Few Miles South Of Jamaica
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#10 Mooning Around, Super Moon, At 2,900m In Quito, Ecuador
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#11 ‘Looking Like A Nuclear Explosion, This Great Cumulonimbus Is Discharging Its Power Over Colombian Rainforest’
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#12 Fugaz, Atlantic Ocean, North Of Panama City
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#13 Atomic Storm
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#14 Soaring, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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#15 The Amazonia Between Ecuador And Colombia
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#16 A Storm Over Colombian Amazonia
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#17 Sunset, Quito, Ecuador
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#18 Cloud City, Quito, Ecuador
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#19 Blinding Storm
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#20 The Orbit In An Atmosphere Unknown, Ecuador
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#21 Vertical Development, Ecuador
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#22 One Of Those Clear Days Over Miami
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#23 Fierce, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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#24 Storm Hour, Amazonia, South America
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#25 Cruising Out, Quito, Ecuador
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