Jessica Ambats spent 15 years shooting beautiful photos of chief executives taking flight for her new book 'Jet Dreams.'
CJ3+, Pilatus PC-24 and Cirrus Vision Jet are all among the chief executives’ personal fleet.
The dramatic close-ups, like this one over New York City, usually involved close-quarters shooting with pilots experienced in formations.Most pilots in the book were Ambats’ clients who commissioned images of themselves flying their jets. Think ofBut getting the images involves nail-biting, close-quarters photography, sometimes with the prop-driven photo airplane flying only 20 to 100 feet in front of the jet.
The backdrops have also been wide-ranging, from New York City to the red rocks in Sedona, Arizona, to Monument Valley to Refuge Air Ranch, a fly-in community outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where some CEOs keep their jets in home-side hangars. Several have flown their jets hours to reach dramatic shoot locations. “We’ve photographed a jet over New York City that had just arrived from Switzerland, and another owner flew from Mexico to California in his to be in the shoot,” she says.
“My father, who is getting quite old, said he’d love to visit every significant flight museum in the US,” says Adam Grosser in the book. Since then, the two Grossers have spent a week every summer flying to different regions to visit air museums. “We’re discovering planes we never knew existed,” he says. “It’s a treat to share dad’s passion for planes.”Others fly for humanitarian reasons. Robert Wilson once transported two orphaned cougar cubs from Utah to a North Carolina wildlife habitat.
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