Had an interesting flight on Sunday morning. I was commissioned by Nike to shoot some aerial stills and footage of the 10k London race. The weather was so dire we could not even lift, so we waited around for an extra half an hour and then set off into London. What normally takes 10 minutes took around [...]
Went up for a couple of hours yesterday evening for a quick flight with the BBC One Show. It was a tight squeeze with Nick the producer up front and then myself, the cameraman and Jamie the presenter in the back. We went just off shore out of the Thames Estuary, back into London and [...]
Ive just finished work on another two 260 aerial panoramics over the Olympics. Best way to view is click the third icon from the right to view full screen. You can pan around the whole site and take a look directly down.
Coming to the end of a great fun project shooting Britain from the air with a phone. Did not want to give up my usual bags of kit at the beginning but the campaign has worked really well in the end, helped in part to amazing luck with the UK weather, and some great pilots, [...]
For the past three or so years I’ve shot exclusively on Nikons pro kit, using the D3, D3X and the D3S. Obviously the kit is quite expensive between £ 4 – 6 k for a body and often over £1.5K for a lens. I hardly ever pick up consumer cameras, if anything catching the odd snap [...]