| Behold Making Airports Gorgeous By David Rosenberg
Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at 03:36 PM ET  As a kid, photographer Jeffrey Milstein enjoyed playing with airplanes and eventually got his pilot's license when he was 17. After a career as both an architect and graphic designer, Milstein decided to focus on photography and is currently concentrating on his childhood passion. "When I was in high school, I had an 8mm movie camera and I would film movies flying over Los Angeles," Milstein said. "I loved that whole viewpoint, the flying viewpoint." Milstein's current project, "Flying," looks at airports from the flying viewpoint, taken from relatively low altitudes. "I have a friend who has a plane and loves to fly, so he has been flying while I take the pictures since I can't do both," Milstein said. According to Milstein, it can be easier for a pilot to get clearance to fly above 7,500 feet, "but it's high up there and it's not as good for the photography I want to do. Sometimes we get lucky and get a good clearance; other times they can be really busy and they will let me go once across and I hope for the best." "It's kind of like a living organism," Milstein explained about how he sees all of the moving parts of an airport. "There are lines of airplanes and then the cars that move have their lanes and the trains taking people around are moving on another level, so there are all of these things, and it's interesting how ... To continue reading, click here.
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