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I first took to the skies back in 1990. Having just finished three years studying photography in London I really wanted to become a studio photographer after finding a passion for shooting on 5x4 plate cameras.

I happened to go flying one weekend in a weight shift ultralight aircraft, and whilst the the flying part was pretty fun what I really fell in love with was the amazing patterns you could see from 700ft.

Two weeks later I naively handed in my notice to the studio I was assisting in and, with the help of a bank loan, brought a microlight of my very own.

Aerial photography encompasses all sorts of work from mapping used in Google Earth, land planning, military, archaeology, environmental studies, to more commercial imagery. I mainly shoot for the advertising, design and branding industries as well as shooting all sorts of books from the air - around 40 books so far.

Safety FirstAfter building up a portfolio of aerial work from a microlight, I very quickly moved o...

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