Returning from Nairobi to Los Angeles via Amsterdam, our KLM flight flew over the orderly agricultural and industrial landscape of the Netherlands. I trained a telephoto lens on what appears to be a rock-processing plant with railroad and maritime shipping facilities.

“Miniature faking” has become a popular trick whereby life-size locations are made to look like scale models, typically by blurring the top and bottom of the image using a tilt-shift lens, or in post-production using Photoshop. Here, air disturbance from the jet exhaust achieves the same illusion at the moment of capture, without the use of special equipment. This type of in-camera alchemy is at the heart of my photographic practice; adding another layer of casual surrealism to this depiction of modern commercial aviation.

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