Photos.aero is a division of Pure Marketing Services Lt. and was founded by Melvin Pereira in December of 2006. With vast experience in website programming and SEO aswell as a genuine interest in Aviation Photography he decided to bring both together and Photos.aero was formed as a place where photographers could upload their own photos for people to view.

In July 2008 Photos.aero changed hands and was taken over by Darryl Morrell and it ran through until October 2009 where a decision was made to join forces and make the site a bigger and more successful venture.

Melvin Pereira. San Jose, Costa Rica. (Founder / Co-Editor). He loves to travel and his passions are the Internet and Aviation Photography.

Darryl Morrell. Milton Keynes, England. (Co-Editor). His passions are Aviation Photography, golf, deep sea fishing and playing soccer.

Geoff Wong. Coquitlam, BC Canada. (Web and Graphic Designer). He likes the Internet and practices Dragon Boat in his spare time.

Jason Alfaro. Alajuela, Costa Rica. (Webmaster and Programmer). In his spare time he enjoys keeping fit in the gym and playing soccer.

Airplane Spotting and Aviation Photography

If you are a seasoned airplane spotter you will know how much it has changed over the last 50 years. Spotting in the early times was all about a pair of binoculars and a pad and a pen, but now times have really changed.

These days its not all about crunching some numbers onto a piece of paper, but the modern spotter has started to branch out into digital photography as a way of logging types of aircraft, and some even use mini radar devices or (SBS) attached to their laptops to log their numbers. The SBS acts as a type of mobile air traffic control and aircraft can be seen on the screen virtually the same as what you see on an ATC screen.

In the early days of spotting there were not many restrictions and you could stand and go almost anywhere you chose within reason, but these days post 911 there have been a lot of security restrictions placed on the airplane spotter.

At the smaller airport it is reasonably easy to take some sort of airplane photo through or over a fence, but at the large international airports, places like car parks, perimeter fences and a whole host of other places are a no go these days and the average spotter with a camera will spend most of his time trying to avoid the police to get a decent photograph. Some airports still provide places like spotters galleries where you can go and at the same time get some real decent views of the airport movements, but these are becoming more and more hard to come by as more restrictions are brought in.

At some major airports, London Heathrow being one of them, the police have a scheme where you can sign up to their database and get a security style pass, so that way if you are stopped by an officer you can simply show them your card and you get a little more less pressure from then to stop taking airplane photos or numbers as in their eyes you are acting as like a second pair of eyes for them.

As passionate airplane spotters we love what we do and must at the end of the day be thankyou for the fantastic airports that we do have and we will always find a way to carry on this great tradition

Featured in the video below is an example of how passionate the CZ Airplane Spotters are and what aviation means to them.