THE FUTURE IN FOCUS
"Dan. We've got a problem. The jet we chartered isn't going anywhere."
"The Gulfstream 200 has a problem? For real?"
"It's grounded, mate."
"Why are you speaking in an Australian accent, mate? You're from LA"
That's the moment when we got a bigger jet... Problem solved.
Ricky smiled at me ear to ear, patted my back and drew me into an embrace. We stood in the ornate carpeted halls of The Wynn Las Vegas, which had become our home twenty days out of the month. Some people have luck, well - I have my business partner Ricky, who manages at least a $10k win and a $10k grin anytime he steps foot into town. Life is good as we head to the Wynn Spa before going poolside.
Now cut back only a mere thirty days ago that we met here in this very same spot to launch "Suits on a Plane." I had just landed back in the US from a trip to Africa where I was not only shooting for "National Geographic" but managed to snag my first international DJ gig in Kenya by referral of the lovely "Miss Koko."
It was this summer, after my mother's sudden passing, that the summer almost took me. Instead, I chose to fly. It gave me the courage to turn the lens upon myself...
So what's a DJ, two guys in suits, a runway of models, and a private jet got to do with anything? They are the facets of my life, not the sum of my identity. This is the story of turning the lens on them all to find the truth.
Suits On A Plane - First Episode Cast & Sir Daniel David Walking Off A Gulfstream Private Jet
SUITS ON A PLANE - ELEVATING CONVERSATIONS
Suits on a Plane is not a show. It is a pressure chamber for honesty. At forty thousand feet, altitude does strange things. Walls fall. Stories spill. Everyone breathes the same recycled air, yet somehow everything feels fresh.
The premise is simple. We fly people where they need to be and film what happens between takeoff and landing. That space becomes something like a truth serum. And another thing... It's your jet so you can do whatever you want.
Shot By @SirDanjets - Inside The Arena At The 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix
Sean Mike Kelly, the voice behind one of the top educational podcasts in the world, talked with us about building influence in real time.
Bruce Cardenas, known for Quest Nutrition and Legendary Foods, explained how brand storytelling becomes a billion-dollar engine.
Matt from Dappz Sports talked about transforming a hobby into a global live-streaming culture. And Dr. Glen from New York spoke about longevity, beauty science, and how the future of aging is being rewritten.
"At one point we were getting Botox on the jet while it was still parked on the tarmac prior to takeoff. As one does."
Each guest boarded with a destination, but left with something entirely different. Suits on a Plane is not about aviation. It is about altitude, emotional altitude. Conversations do not just happen. They rise. That first flight carried us into Monday Night Football at Allegiant Stadium, a night so electric it felt like the universe was giving us the green light.
Shot By @SirDanJets - Max Verstappen At The 2025 United States Grand Prix
FORMULA 1 - THE ULTIMATE STAGE
The sound hits you first. A Formula 1 engine at full tilt isn't something you hear; it's something you feel.
It shakes your bones, your breath, and every ounce of your focus. That energy pulled me into this world, the most powerful display of motion, precision, aerodynamic downforce, suspension geometry, and human obsession on Earth.
As a Formula 1 car blurs by at 200 miles per hour, your heart forgets its rhythm and remembers what it means to feel alive.
Shot By @SirDanJets - Lando Norris At The 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix
I became a Formula 1 photographer because of a chance encounter at Miami Swim Week. At the Elle Swimwear party inside a mansion on the Venetian Islands, I met the owner of a major Australian publishing company. We clicked immediately, and before he flew back to Australia he planted an idea I had never seriously considered before: that I should shoot Formula 1 for his publications. The thought stayed with me. Three months later, l applied to the FIA, which is the governing body of Formula 1, for accreditation. They rejected me again and again because I did not yet have published motorsport photos, which created an impossible loop.
I could not get published without shooting a race, and I could not shoot a race without getting approved as a photographer.
Photo of Sir Daniel David - 2025 United States Grand Prix
Still, I kept applying. Fourteen months and countless submissions later, the FIA finally approved me. Suddenly I was an accredited Formula 1 photographer. My first assignment was the United States Grand Prix, followed immediately by the Mexico City Grand Prix the next weekend.
As a Formula 1 photographer, you exist in the moment between chaos and clarity...
Photographing the drivers is like capturing modern gladiators in moments of controlled vulnerability...
In the media center, there are very few Americans. I'm usually one of them.
Shot By @SirDanJets - Turn 1 Of The 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix
For most Americans, Formula 1 still feels like a distant world... but when you're there... it becomes deeply human.
Photo of Sir Daniel David
ROYALTY ANGELS - CAPTURING THE ART OF MOTION
When I step away from the roar of Formula 1, I move into another kind of energy, the rhythm of fashion. My camera has taken me from the sexiest catwalks of Miami Swim Week to the high-gloss runways of New York Fashion Week, Art Basel, LA Fashion Week, and Dubai Fashion Week, where the lighting, music, and adrenaline combine into a single cinematic heartbeat.
Shot By @SirDanJets - Alexandra Morillo & Dorimi Pineda
I didn't seek out fashion; it found me — thanks to a friend. Arnel San Pedro, then the live director of Miami Swim Week, reached out and mentioned there was an opportunity to sponsor the shows. At the time, I was deeply immersed in motorsports, managing a project that sponsored two cars in NASCAR for an entire season. Yet, the prospect of supporting a swimwear fashion runway in Miami Beach felt like a natural extension of that same adrenaline rush.
Shot By @SirDanJets - Rachel Pizzolato At Miami Swim Week
Coincidentally, my wife was invited to model at Miami Swim Week, where she walked in more than forty shows that first year, opening and closing many of them. Fast forward a year: I'm no longer just a sponsor. Now, I'm behind the lens.
I lived in Dubai for four years, and that time changed how I see light, culture, and storytelling...
I film these moments the same way I approach motorsport, with an understanding of movement, emotion, and precision. But fashion is, in many ways, even harder to capture. Formula 1 is predictable in its chaos; the lines are drawn, the rhythm constant.
On a runway... the motion is human and unpredictable... The lens doesn't just capture fabric; it reveals confidence, movement, and the quiet power behind every step.
That's where the chaos wins: a model's final turn is a post-production nightmare. It's a human, unpredictable pivot that breaks the frame and can derail the entire flow of an edit.
THE BUSINESS OF CREATION
Through Royalty Angels, I've built a creative team dedicated to that vision. We produce for reality television, behind-the-scenes content, and high-impact media campaigns that merge storytelling with visual velocity. In 2024, I covered the Miss Universe red carpet, photographing global icons...
In January, 2025, my team produced exclusive experiences for Roku during CES in Las Vegas...
In Las Vegas, I acquired the licensing for a regulated modeling agency, a talent agency, and regulated professional promoters business. I realized that there aren't many active and properly licensed modeling agencies and I wanted to provide a safe place for legitimate models to be able to work. This opened doors to other opportunities in film, TV, and media that I could never have predicted.
Royalty Angels has evolved from a modeling agency into a hybrid media company, part production studio, part talent incubator, part reality series in motion, and part product development. Our mission is to capture what's real in an age of filters: ambition, artistry, and the pulse of performance.
Shot By @SirDanJets - Tia Goossen In Honey Birdette
BEHIND THE LENS - THE TRUTH
Whether it's a Formula 1 garage or a Paris runway, I've learned that storytelling is a full-contact sport.
It's not all champagne and photo ops. It's exhaustion, tight deadlines, and the tiring moments where you question everything, and then pick up the camera again anyway.
When your back aches, your shoulders burn, and the heat blurs your vision, you still have to steady the lens and get the shot... I can tell you what it's like to shoot at a Formula 1 race in one-hundred degrees. It's tough... I don't do it because it's comfortable; I do it because I love it... That kind of focus and mental toughness doesn't come overnight.
Behind the scenes, my life is organized chaos.
There are days when I'm managing the agency, reviewing edits from Suits on a Plane, strategizing for Royalty Angels, or deciding on what we will have featured in our publication... But that's the life I built, and it's the one I love.
Some of my favorite photos were never meant to be taken. They live in the in-between moments, a driver pausing in silence in pit lane, a quiet exchange with a Team Principal, a familiar smile or nod from one of the drivers I have gotten to know. Backstage, it might be two models sharing a quick pose, a flash of innocence caught in their expressions. These are the moments that remind me why I do this.
There are things in life that seem surreal. You focus, you adjust, you keep going. The worlds of fashion, motorsport, aviation, and media aren't separate anymore; they're merging into one cultural current. That's where I live.
Formula 1 taught me precision.
Fashion taught me elegance.
Aviation taught me altitude.
Storytelling taught me the truth.
If the camera taught me anything, it is this:
clarity comes through movement in focus.
All of this, including the travel, the races, and the runways, is balanced by what matters most. I am a father first, and my wife, a model in Miami, is both my partner in life and a mirror to the world I capture. Together they keep me sharp, focused, and aligned with the truth behind every frame.
