Stunning photos taken from the cockpit of an airliner

These beautiful photos were taken with a pilot by Christian van Heist from the Netherlands, and his friend Daan by Ransom. They founded the company Amazing Aviation, which specializiruetsya on the photos from the cockpit. These photographs are a selection of the best of their portfolio. They were made during the flight over different cities and countries, beginning in Toronto and ending with India and China.

"When in-flight encounter with such an abundance of nature, immediately begin to feel so small, so insignificant compared to this wild raging energy," says Christian.

This photo was taken during the flight between Beijing and Shanghai. It shows a cloud illuminated by lightning.

"Our devices found the cloud in just a few minutes before the picture was taken. When we got closer, we had 10 miles to deviate from the course, because beauty is beauty, and danger to aircraft cloud still represented a considerable," said Christian.

This photo was taken in the skies over Canada during a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam. Christian and his colleague Luke had to face a terrible storm, and after this the icing on the cake was the Northern lights.

"To create such stunning photography and expose them to the public, giving everyone the opportunity to see this beauty, it is a great honor for me," said the Christian.

"Beautiful Northern lights in the sky over Canada, which also still illuminated from below a few thunderstorms with lightning, one of the most beautiful paintings I've ever seen in my life," shared Christian.

So the milky Way looks like from the cockpit flying over the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt).

This photo was taken from the cabin of a cargo of "Boeing-747" flying over the territory of India.

Christian began to study to be a pilot at the age of 14. "Since the beginning of my career, I was firmly convinced that I just needed to capture the unique atmosphere of the beautiful views I see from the cockpit," he says.

"Attempts to create a good photo is often seen as difficult and thankless job, but I still try to make for your audience, great pictures, in order to convey the feelings that I feel when they are in flight," added Christian.

"My colleagues support me, because now they have the opportunity to show your family and friends all the beauty that we are seeing every day with our jobs."