“I’ve been diving for 30 odd years and diving led me to my photography in terms of everyone wanting to know what I was seeing underwater. The only way to explain that was to take a camera down and show people,” shares Jean Tresfon.
He adds that diving and flying share a lot of parallels, as both offer a unique perspective on a world that people think they already know. Both also require a primary activity, either flying or diving, and his photography follows.
“Doing the training and the exams, it took me about 4 months to get the license doing it two to three times a week, and I really enjoyed the process. However, the real learning starts once you’ve got your license,” he says before adding “It took a little while to get the flying to a place where I was comfortable. Then only did I start taking a camera and that’s when a whole world opened for me. When I started taking aerial photography.”