Not every great photograph is taken through clear air. This image of Dragon 1, the RAF Typhoon FGR4 Display Aircraft, was captured through the superheated wake of its own exhaust — the shimmering, liquid distortion of jet efflux turning the frame into something closer to a painting than a photograph.
Banking hard to the right, the Typhoon ripples and warps through the haze, its form dissolving at the edges into pure heat and energy. It is a shot that captures not just the aircraft, but the invisible forces it commands.
Printed on archival C-Type paper to gallery standard, this is a print that rewards close attention — the more you look, the more you see.
