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The Amazing Maldives
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The View of a Barefoot Pilot/Photographer
Flying barefoot in the Maldives provided
me with such a unique opportunity. Not
only from a pilots perspective but also
from the point of view of a photographer
For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to
be a pilot. I think that inspiration must have come from
my father, now retired, who was also a pilot. I am now
20 years into my aviation career and to this day I am still
very much enamoured with aviation especially the Twin
Otter. I have flown a fairly wide variety of airplanes to date
from small single engine bush planes in Canada’s North
Country along with jet aircraft throughout North America
and even into parts of Africa. With all of this in mind it
always comes back to the Twin Otter as my favourite!
There is also another great passion in my life and
that is photography! Having first picked up a camera
because of the inspiration given to me by my grade
seven elementary teacher I have been taking pictures,
and along with my wife Sophie I have been evolving
as a photographer. Together we offer professional
photography services in Victoria BC Canada under the
name Sophie Photo, www.sophiephoto.com.
I have such an amazing opportunity to combine my
photography with my flying career. In fact it seems like
a natural fit; after all the travel offered me through my
aviation career gives me opportunities I am sure most
photographers would be very envious of! One of the
results of this marriage of careers is my contribution
to Maldivian Air Taxi, not only as a pilot but also as
a contributing photographer. The other result is my
photographic blog at www.barefootpilot.blogspot.com,
which is where I display some of my favourite images
along with my perspectives of this most beautiful country
called the Maldives!
It is rare that I was without my camera
and as a result I managed to capture a
wide variety of images from all walks of
life in the Maldives; from the amazing
atolls, the many modes of transportation
along with street scenes in the Capital
City of Male’, just to name a few of the
subjects that interest me.
I hope you will enjoy some of the
samples of my work selected for this
issue of Inflight and that they interest you
enough not only to learn more about the
Maldives, but also to visit my blog at www.
barefootpilot.blogspot.com or check out
my Gallery at www.photomac.ca
Though I am no longer working in the
Maldives the images I have captured will
serve to remind me of its unique and
fragile beauty!
I will end by leaving you with a quote from
one of the most amazing photographers
that I can think of, Mr Ansel Adams:
“You don’t make a photograph just
with a camera. You bring to the act of
photography all the pictures you have
seen, the books you have read, the music
you have heard, the people you have
loved.” Ansel Adams
Yours truly
Rob McIntyre!
by Rob McIntyre
Rob McIntyre is a pilot and a passionate photographer who
combines his careers to present magical views of the Maldives.
In this article Rob presents a collection of his beautiful
photographs of the Maldives
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