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The view: Full moon over Den Haag on “Blue Monday”

The pilot: Unknown

The airplane: B737-8K2(WL) PH HXA

The mission: Scheduled flight from Nice, France, to Amsterdam.

The memory: This year Blue Monday (January 17th) was a beautiful bright day in The Netherlands. When jogging through the Clingendael Park, I noticed the rising full moon and the afternoon’s peak of traffic approaching for Schiphol Amsterdam Airport flying exactly north of my position, straight into the direction of the upcoming full moon. I rushed back home to get my 200 mm telephoto lens and was lucky to capture an airplane flying the RNAV36 towards RWY 36L at approximately 1500 ft AGL.

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Gerhard van Roon

Gerhard van Roon (1970) is a professional photographer since 1990. He graduated Photography at the Royal Academy for visual Arts in The Hague and got his Private Pilot Licence at Vliegclub Rotterdam in 2011. Based in The Hague, Netherlands he works as an Aerial Photographer and owns the company Kunst en Vliegwerk.

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