Airports & architecture, Commercial aviation After dark
Under the floodlights
From €59
Supplied unframed. Open-edition photographic print, made to order. The same price applies to full bleed and white border.
An airliner seen dead-centre from behind at night, backlit by the banks of floodlights on the control tower. Engines, swept wings and tailfin form a dark, almost architectural silhouette, with the terminal’s long horizontal lines running beneath.
- Supplied unframed
- Printed to order in Portugal
- Delivery per order: €7.99 in Portugal, €10.99 elsewhere
- 14-day right of withdrawal
The photograph
Under the floodlights
Standing behind a parked airliner at night, the photographer lined up the aircraft's centreline with the control tower beyond. The tower's banks of floodlights blaze above the tail, turning the fuselage into a deep silhouette edged with light, while the large engine nacelles either side catch reflections from the apron.
The result reads almost like an architectural drawing: two swept wings, a vertical fin cutting through the tower and the terminal's horizontal lines running the full width of the frame. Small details reward a closer look, from the orange cones at the wingtips to the service vehicle tucked beneath the fuselage.
Symmetry this precise is rarely accidental. It takes a patient position on the apron, lined up exactly on the aircraft's centreline, and an exposure long enough to hold detail in the shadows without letting the tower lights burn out. The near-monochrome palette is how the scene looked under sodium and LED floodlight, simply refined in the edit.
The palette is dark and neutral, close to monochrome, with warm highlights. It sits naturally in contemporary interiors with black metal, stone or walnut, and holds up very well at 60 × 90 cm, where the tower's structure becomes a second subject.
Photographed on 26 July 2025 with a Sony α7R V at a focal length of 150 mm.
Print details
- Original photograph by Jorge Alexandre Pereira — open edition, not limited or numbered.
- Photographic print made to order by a professional laboratory in Portugal.
- Supplied unframed: no frame, mount or hanging hardware is included.
- Full bleed fills the sheet edge to edge. White border leaves exactly 1 cm of white paper on all four edges, inside the chosen size.
- Where a paper shape differs from the original frame the photograph is cropped slightly — never stretched or altered.
- The photographer’s signature, part of the original edit, appears on the print as shown.
About the photograph
- Airport / location
- Faro Airport (FAO)
- Photography style
- Colour
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Time of day
- Night
Aircraft and location details are published only when visible in the photograph or confirmed by the photographer.
Sizes at a glance
Paper 21 × 29.7 cm
White border image area 19 × 27.7 cm
Paper 32.9 × 48.3 cm
White border image area 30.9 × 46.3 cm
Paper 40 × 60 cm
White border image area 38 × 58 cm
Paper 60 × 90 cm
White border image area 58 × 88 cm
Sizes are shown in proportion to each other. The size you choose is always the outside size of the sheet; the white border (exactly 1 cm on every edge) sits inside it. Photographs are cropped slightly where a paper shape differs from the original frame — never stretched.
