Posted in Aerial Photography, Events, Photojournalism, Places on Mar 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Earthquake in Japan Alan Taylor at The Atlantic is compiling images of the earthquake in Japan. The collection will be updated.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Patterns, Photographers, Trees on Feb 10th, 2011 No Comments »
On the Grid Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter recently got in touch with an extraordinary series of aerial photographs called Baumschule—some of which, he explains, were taken using a camera mounted on a fishing rod. The series features “32 photographs of tree nurseries and grid forests in the Netherlands.” Fantastic stuff. Would be fun to [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photojournalism, Places on Jan 31st, 2011 4 Comments »
Helmand province from above Helmand province is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the southwest region of the country. The Helmand River flows through the mainly desert region, providing water for irrigation. Much of the fighting between NATO and Taliban forces is taking place in this province and Helmand is said [...]
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Architecture, Photographers, Places on Dec 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Professional photographer Joe McNally gets to the top of the beacon mast on top of the Empire State Building to get a shot.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Patterns, Places on Sep 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Human landscapes in SW Florida The Big Picture has an absolutely stunning collection of aerial images of housing and other human created landscapes in southwest Florida. I love this stuff, reminds me of macro images of microprocessors.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Canon Powershot S90, Places on Sep 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Over Ontario, California. I had a whole row to myself last week on my trip to California and took this picture on approach to LAX. I haven’t done a lot of shooting out plane windows for a while, preferring to sit in aisle seats on the now crowded planes but during this flight I had [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers on Sep 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Yann Arthus-Bertrand This is a flash site so I can’t give you a direct url but click on Photographs/The Earth from Above and cycle through the various continents. Fabulous aerial photography of the earth. I couldn’t find a way to turn the music off. Ugh. [via Scott James]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Places on Jul 15th, 2010 5 Comments »
New York City from Above The Denver Post has put together a fine collection of aerial images of New York City (mostly Manhattan). Most of the images were taken by Daniel Acker for Bloomberg News but there are other photographers represented as well. This is one, fine collection.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photography, Tech Stuff, Time Lapse on May 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Tweaking a Camera to Suit a Hobby The [Canon Hack Development Kit (or C.H.D.K. for short)] software has allowed photographers using more than 50 models of Canon PowerShot cameras to reprogram the time lapse instructions to record construction projects or to use motion-sensing programs to capture animals in the deep woods. It can also be [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Apr 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Joys of the Window Seat The New York times asked for reader submissions of aerial images taken on commercial flights. I was too late to offer up mine but there are some great ones in this collection.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 5th, 2010 6 Comments »
NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night Jason Hawkes shows images of New York City and Las Vegas at night shot with a Nikon D3S from a helicopter. Fantastic.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Martian Landscapes An absolutely incredible collection of images from Mars. I thought the first shot was a woman’s skin with tattoos (okay, I’m drinking a beer).
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Photojournalism, Slide Show on Oct 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers on Sep 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Aerial Photography of Jason Hawkes A nice collection of image shot from above. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Landscape, Places on Aug 7th, 2009 No Comments »
The Frame has a great set on The 31st Britol International Balloon Fiesta. Some of the best ballooning shots I’ve seen in a long time.
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Photojournalism on Jul 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
The Frame: Endeavour’s visit to the space station Wonderful collection of images, some from the space shuttle Endeavor, some from the STS-127 space station.
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, People, Photography on Jul 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Photo Journal: Apollo’s Historic Lunar Landing This is an unusual and excellent collection of images of the entire event, including a candid of the now late Walter Cronkite.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Recent scenes from the ISS. An incredible collection of aerial images of earth from the International Space Station. My fav is #24, the tidal channels near Iran’s Qeshm Island. Wow.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Airship Ventures This is the way to do aerial photography in the Bay Area. If it were just a tad cheaper… [via Longboard]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photography, Places on Jun 8th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Mercury and MESSENGER An incredible photo essay on the MESSENGER probe and Mercury. The surface shots of the planet are incredible, like you’re there.
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