Benjamin J.K. Yu

Benjamin Yu, 31-years-of-age, has been taking both civil and military aviation photo and slides for 12 years, with an archive of over 15,000 images. Triggered by the movie Top Gun and the roaring sound of F-104 J79 engines, Benjamin devoted himself in the aviation field since he was in the junior high school. After graduated from law school, he worked for a software company as a product/marketing manager, technical editor of Defense International Magazine, and is now an air traffic controller in Taipei C.K.S. International Airport Control Tower for 5 years, while also holding an ICAO PPL license as a leisure-time pilot.

With the experience of several amateur website establishment, including the official webpage of RoCAF Aerobatic Team ThunderTigers and PC/Internet-based flight simulation "virtual airline" Jade AiR in Taiwan, Benjamin Yu established A.S.I.A., Asia Sky Image Archives in 2003. He also contributes freelance for many magazines in the world, and won many photography prizes in field of aviation and traveling. The newest one is first place, C.K.S. International Airport 25 Years Anniversary Photo Competition!

Stephen S.P. Hsu

Stephen Hsu devoted himself in the civil aviation stuff since he was a child. Since 1988, he has a large photo archive of almost 20,000 negative photo and slides during over 20 years of photography life. Among all the airports he had visited around the world, Tokyo Narita and old Hong Kong Kai-tak Airport are both his favorites.

Stephen has been working in the Taiwan civil aviation industry over 10 years, and can't enjoy more with the life in the airport because he could be accompanied by his beloved airplanes everyday. He also worked for Airway Magazine as a free-lance photographer for 2 years and half.

Besides aviation photography, Stephen also collects airplane models. He has a big collection of over 400 ones, mostly 1/400 and 1/500 die-cast metal, together with some of 1/200 plastic models which he painted himself.

Eric Chen

Eric Chen, who is 28 years old and still taking the master course now. He was living besides a small military airport in southern Taiwan and wanted to be a pilot. But now he chooses another way of life but is still taking aviation photo as his main hobby. He had visited many Japanese military/civilian airports during the past years, and the only purpose of visiting Japan is taking aviation photos. If you need any information about the Japanese aviation, Eric could be a good advisor and resource lead.

John C.H. Li

John Li, 33 years old, has been taking aviation pictures and collecting airplane models for 7 years. John established his interest in the industry from his experience working in the travel agency, and he is now the area manager of 7-11 chain stores in northern Taiwan. During his work, John has many chances to visit Mainland China for business. So he is especially interested in the civil aviation in Hong Kong and China. His dream is to earn a BIG DEAL OF MONEY then go traveling around the world to take photos of airplanes!

Lawson C.H. Lin

Lawson Lin, 33 years old, works in the ramp service department of a local airport service company. He can't enjoy more with the life in the airport because he could be accompanied by his beloved airplanes everyday. During his 5 years of work, Lawson collects more than 5000 digital industrial images all all kinds. Before that, Lawson had been taken photos and slides of civilian and military aircrafts for another 5 years.

Besides aviation, Lawson loves Persian cats and raises three of them! He also enjoys traveling a lot; Dampasar/Bali is his favorite place to have a rest.

William K.L. Su

William Su, 32-years-of-age, has been taking aviation photographs for 7 years, mostly civil ones and in southern Taiwan. He worked for one of the airlines in Taiwan as an aircraft system engineer for 6 years before, and is now a marketing manager of a trading company in field of petrochemical & power station.

Rommel W. Chen

Rommel Chen, was born in 1973 in an airforce family. For that reason he has been interested in military aviation when he was young. Rommel collects and makes airplane models over 10 years, but now he just collects civil airplane models, mostly 1/400 die-cast metal ones. He has been taking aviation photographs for 3 years, mostly civil in southern Taiwan (Kaohsiung). Rommel is now running as a MIS engineer in a semiconductor company, and acts as a image screener/executive editor in ASIA.

Michael Chen

Michael Chen, at the age of 39, has been fascinated by aircrafts since he was a junior high school boy. Majored in Business Administration back in college, he once wanted to go to the states pursuing his MBA degree after serving his military service then he decided to stay with his true love, the airline business, after joining a US carrier as a flight OPS agent back in 1992.

After working 3 different positions within the company, Michael is now a crew member of his airline based in Tokyo. Working on airplanes has been giving him a lot of opportunities to observe in the cockpit, experiencing real operation of the airliner. As far as photographing is concerned, he considers himself an amateur. "I am just taking advantage of my occupation." said Michael. The most astonishing scene he had ever seen is a head-on close-in of his 747-400 to a 767-300 during cruise with only 1000 feet separation vertically. "With the TCAS warnings, that was such a thrill and surely a Kodak moment!" Michael recalled. Yet it is a shame that he did not have a camera with him. Now he brings his camera most of the time when he flies. Other unusual experiences that he has in his career are that he has so far 4 go-arounds on 4 different types of aircraft at 4 different airports, 2 fuel stops, 2 diversions and one of them was due to the September 11th incident.

Ryan C.Y. Wang

Ryan C.Y. Wang, 28 years old, majored in shipping & transportation management in University. He thought he could learn some aviation industrial knowledge from his major but in vain, the school just doesn't provide any at all. Wang kept his enthusism about aviation since high school, studied hard to get low pass of those boring subjects such as naval shipping and fleet management, and became a member of ramp service company in the airport after Marine Corp service.

He loves the life now! "It's just simply happy to work among airplanes," Ryan says, "and I am in the airliners parking business now!"

Macphil Wen

Macphil Wen, 30 years old, has been taking aviation photos for 3 years, mostly in southern Taiwan. Wen is also a railway fan and taking railway photos for 14 years sicne he was a student, and had wroted 3 books about Taiwan railway landscape. Now he is a free-lance photographer and supply his pictures for publishing house, both slides and digital images.

Besides railway and aviation photography, ameture radio is also his major interest, With the call-sign of "BM7BHL", Wen has a small radio station in his house. Wen enjoys aviation photography and listening real-time ATC radio!

Susumu Tokunaga

Mr. Tokunaga began to take airplane photos at Junior High School in mid 60's. His primary interest then was the militaly planes, but it viased to US Navy aircrafts because of their colorful paint scheme. Regratefully Tokunaga could only use black and white photo, for the color film was very expensive at that time.

Tokunaga's business career did not allow me to go to airport for photographing, though he had hundreds of time being in the airports for business trips. So Tokunaga decided to take early retirement last year and recent colorful commercial airplanes drew him back into photographing airplanes after 25 years of absence.

Beside the photographing, Tokunaga took the private pilot license last year and enjoy flying from nearby Chofu airport.

Joseph Y.H. Ting

Joseph Ting, was born on 1974, now is a pilot cadet of China Airlines and under taking the fly training program in BAE System Adelaide, Australia. Joseph has a father as an air force pilot and been involved into aviation field deeply with the pilots all around his life. Also attracted by the fantastic aviation transportation jets, he made up his mind to been a professional pilot as a life career. After the long research job in the graduated school in Civil Engineering, Joseph applied CAL for ab-initio pilot training on 2003.

Beside the professional fields, he is also interesting taking photograph for airplanes and nature topics. Hopefully, he will take and share much more great shots in aviation with the opportunity of working in the highest office in the world.

Poowin Bunyavejchewin

Poowin Bunyavejchewin, 16 years old, has taken aviation photographs for 3 years, mostly in Bangkok, Thailand. Aviation Photography is his main hobby. He is still studying grade 11 at Kasetsart University Labaratory School.

Poowin also works for Airliner Magazine as a free-lance photographer and have some photos published on enthusiast periodicals and also trade periodicals, such as AIRLINE BUSINESS.

Michael van der Mee

Born on the 9th of September 1973, Michael started spotting in 1987 on the nearby Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands. While the 32nd TFS was based there, he spend much of his spare time on the old spotters place next to the taxiways. After a while, the hobby expanded to abroad and the first "foreign" visits were made to the now closed RAFG bases at Bruggen and Wildenrath in Germany. Next was the UK with the Air fetes at Mildenhall and visits to RAF Upper Heyford, Bentwaters/Woodbridge etc. After the collapse of the communist Eastern Europe and the forthcoming draw down of US and other Air forces in Europe he decided to quit spotting and focus on his career.

After working for more then 10 years in various management functions for a big Dutch department store, it was time for something completely different and he decided to start his own company under the name of Touchdown. The company now consists on 2 websites with the main focus being the camera/photography store at www.touchdown-photo.nl. The other site is more based on the revived hobby of spotting. Together with the other members of the team he works hard to make Touchdown Aviation an interesting site to share info and publicize our reports and photos. One of his photos was used for the French translation of the F-16C manual for the Falcon flight simulator.

Equipments Michael use:

2x Canon EOS 20D + BG-E2 battery grip
Canon EF-S 18-55 f 3.5-5.6
Canon EF 70-200 f 2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 300 f 4.0L IS USM
Lowepro Computrekker Plus AW

Camus Tseng

Besides photograpy, he also collects civil airplane models and is interested in ATC radio. Tseng's aviation photography is assisted by listening to ATC frequency, and has a set of amateur radio station at home.

Now Camus is preparing for exam of graduate institute and making photographic journeys in future.

Equipments Tseng use:

Canon EOS 1V-HS
Canon Powershot G5
Canon EOS 20D + BG-E2
Canon EF 24-85 f 3.5-4.5
Canon EF 100-400 f 4.5-5.6L IS USM
Canon EF 300 f 4.0L USM
Canon EF 1.4X Extender

Marcel Schmidt

Marcel Schmidt is a German planespotter, whose "homeairports" are these three Berlin airports: Berlin-Tegel(TXL), Berlin-Schoenefeld(SXF) and Berlin-Thempelhof(THF). Planespotting is his main hobby. He become interested in both civil and military aviation as he saw for the first time an IljushinIl-86 taking off in the Antalya Airport in Turkey as early as the age of 10.

Marcel's first camera for spotting was the Coolpix 3200 and the Olympus C-770. Since December 2005 he started to use Nikon Coolpix 3200 and Canon EOS 20D + BG-E2 with Canon EF-S 18-55 f 3.5-5.6 and the Canon EF 90-300 1/4.5-6 USM lenses. He uses also the Canon EF 100-400 f 4.5-5.6L IS USM. Now, he studies and works in German Army. After finishing study, he will be a German soldier.