Perspective + Exploration

Flying

My husband is the pilot. I’m the passenger with the camera. Flying with him changes how I see the world: from above, familiar places become patterns, lines and shapes. That shift in perspective has become part of how I photograph and how I think about creative work.

View from inside a small aircraft looking over the cockpit toward a snow-lined runway

A different point of view

I’ve always been interested in seeing things from another angle. Riding along while my husband flies makes that literal. Roads become gestures. Fields become geometry. The things that feel complicated on the ground often become surprisingly clear from above.

That shift in perspective is part of what I love about both flying and design: step away, change the frame, and a new way forward often appears.

Lea Munjone’s husband piloting a small aircraft — My husband at the controls.

Small aircraft viewed from the front with its doors open

Exploration

I’m not a pilot, and that isn’t the point of this story. For me, being able to fly with my husband is about curiosity, exploration and going somewhere simply to see what’s there.

It also opened up a new photographic perspective. Looking down from a small plane, landscape becomes composition: shape, contrast, repetition and scale.

Small airplane approaching over an open field

Two people together inside a small aircraft

A personal part of my life that has also given me a new way to photograph the world.