WHERE HOWARD GOES
Travel photography and storytelling by Howard Cheng
Milky Way
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Photographing the Milky Way from 37,000 ft
In September 2024, whilst on an Asiana Airlines flight to South Korea, I shot the Milky Way from a plane. This was my first time trying to shoot the galactic core, let alone from a plane. It took me a while to work out how to do it — I documented my planning process in…
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Photographing the Milky Way from 35,000 ft
Table of contents A window seat to the stars A couple of weeks ago, while sitting in seat 30K on an Asiana Airlines A350 making an overnight flight from London to Seoul, I was grinning like a Cheshire Cat as I posted on social media a photograph of my Leica Q3’s back LCD screen. The…
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Brief Reflections on the Sky at Night
I have always had a fascination with the night sky since I was a child, and I always enjoyed re-reading the mythical stories of the fabled heroes who have constellations and cosmic bodies named after them – Perseus the demigod and Andromeda his wife (a constellation and a galaxy respectively), Cassiopeia (Andromeda’s mother and a…