Captain Navtej Singh, who served 32 years in the Indian Navy, recently went viral for a video showing him taking aerial photographs under extreme conditions.
00:00For you, it is something extraordinary. It had been a daily affair for me for almost 15 years, you know.
00:05The wind smacks into him hard enough to distort his face.
00:09You can see his eyes stretch, struggling to steady the world in front of him.
00:13But his finger stays calm. The camera stays exactly where it needs to be.
00:17Meet Captain Naftet Singh, the former Navy officer whose latest aerial photography mission has blown up online.
00:23But the question is, did he manage to take the shot?
00:26I always get that shot. That is not an issue. This just happened to be a video which I was digging for something in my archives that came out and posted it.
00:36So this probably was to click a missile launch if I'm not wrong or it was for some aircraft flying below me.
00:44Singh told us that photography was part of his job criteria and when you scroll through his page, it's clear why.
00:50Shot after shot from the sky, each one coming from countless sorties like this one.
00:55But does any of it even scare him?
00:57I was, you know, harnessed to one of the spots in the aircraft behind an AL-32.
01:04And I thought, let me lean out and take a photograph.
01:06Normally I would have never checked, but I don't know, something in me told me to check the harness.
01:11So I just, you know, moved my back to check if the harness was in place.
01:15And I realized the harness wasn't there.
01:17It had come out, that clip had broken and it had come out from the place.
01:20That was the only scary moment I have had in my life.
01:22He shared that he grew up around the military as his father retired as an air commodore in the Air Force.
01:27What really nudged him toward the uniform was seeing cadets' march in Pune.
01:31That took him to the NDA in 1986 and then into the Indian Navy.
01:36After 32 years of service, he took premature retirement to travel and photograph the world.
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