Exit Strategy began as a request from a friend who wanted to decorate their home with images of their favorite aircraft. Early attempts captured the familiar perspective of planes on final approach and produced typical results: dangling landing gear and flat light killing any aesthetic intrigue. Departures were harder to track due to higher speeds and restricted sight lines; by the time the landing gear retracts, planes are well over the Pacific. Nothing a boat couldn't fix, right?

Concept crashed into reality like a shore break once it became apparent that planes on slightly varied vectors tend to intersect the camera's field of view hundreds of yards apart, with only a few seconds left for on-the-fly adjustments. Mounting instead to a nimbler Sea-Doo watercraft and holding the camera aloft like a rodeo ride desperate for a dry 8 seconds enables the critical moment when the setting sun properly contours lights across the sculpted frames.

Somewhere in the undulations Exit Strategy came to be, a pure expression of admiration for design and imagination in flight.