Winning photographers in this year's Aviation Week Photo Contest share a passion for aerospace, and many make their living either shooting photos or as engineers or financial strategists.
Burrows was the self-taught photography editor of Life magazine and its book series. She died on Jan. 10 at 73 of corticobasical degeneration, a rare brain disease.
A former Smithsonian Air & Space Museum staffer, Reuters photo editor and Aviation Week's executive editor, art director and data analyst/planespotter collaborate to select the year's best aviation and aerospace photos.