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Cameron Davidson combines his love of flying and photography to spectacular effect, making gorgeous aerial imagery for a slew of magazines and commercial clients. I was lucky enough to interview last year; have a look and a read here.

I was perusing Davidson’s site today, looking for the usual gems, and I found an “abstract aerial” section. What a hoot! Here are some samples. We’ll start with something easy.

getting harder…

these two are my faves.

Nice! Here’s a question for Mr. Davidson (this is him, btw):

How have you been able to combine your love of flying and photography so well– was there a “eureka moment”, or did you always know this was what you wanted to do?

The love of aerials came from my first National Geographic assignment in southern Maryland. Bob Gilka, the former Director of Photography, gave me the go ahead to charter a Jet Ranger from the DC area to shoot a Great Blue Heron rookery along the Patuxent River. I fell in love with the combination of being able to shoot a graphic image that also conveyed important story information. Plus, I love to fly and there is nothing better than being in the back seat of a turbine helicopter, working as a team with a pilot you trust and creating images that show the world from a slightly different perspective.

I’ve been lucky to shoot aerials for some amazing magazines and clients. Audubon published a personal project on Mountain Top Removal last year along with giving me several assignments that featured my aerial work, Field and Stream sent me to Wyoming last year for a project on the affects of gas drilling on wildlife migration, Wired has sent me to Arizona for an all aerial story. For many years I shot stories for Smithsonian that included aerials and the Geographic has assigned me to shoot the aftermath of several natural disasters for the magazine– Hurricane Andrew, Mississippi River Flood and Western Wildfires.

Thanks!

Oh, it’s Friday and it’s hot where I am. Is it hot where you are, too? Seems like we should cool off a bit. We had some Antarctica shots on the blog recently, and I thought we’d keep the icy theme going with some from the always great Nick Cobbing. Cobbing’s images of the ice formations in Greenland, many of them aerials, are timeless and stunning and I can’t get enough.

So I thought I’d share.

Without further ado:

Have a great weekend! And check out more of Cobbing’s work, here.

Hope you all got good and loaded up on hotdogs this weekend- and maybe did something nice and 4th-of-July iconic, like sunning yourself to a crisp on a crowded beach. Apparently we’re feeling rather patriotic over here, because in addition to the fireworks images, we’re going to show you something else aerial and purdy– kite pictures!

I mean- maybe you all are familiar with the notion of a picture from a kite, but it’s new to me. I thought you had to be Vincent Laforet or Cameron Davidson to go aerial, but apparently you can strap a photo doohicky to your kite and compete pretty well.

French photographer Nicolas Chorier seems to be the leader of the kite pack, if my sources are correct. This is him:

Chorier describe’s the advantage a kite provides:

The Kite’s precision and simplicity provides an exciting, cost effective, and innovative solution to photographing subjects from the sky, and offers a unique vantage point to viewers and photographers alike.

Some of these shots are simply stunning… this one above shows a view of a small white kite flying over a beach in Denmark.

Chorier shoots all of the world- Laos, Indonesia, Uzbekistan… you name it.

Read all about the process of kite photography on Chorier’s site.