David Maisel exhibition. Santa Barbara Museum of Art

until April 27, 2008

These large scale images by San Francisco-based photographer David Maisel are printed as negatives rather than positives, providing views of the city. These photographs provide x-rays of a city’s anatomy making them all the more frightening as claustrophobic expanses.

More details here. The museum's homepage is here.

How to choose an aerial photographer...

...or an aerial photography company

Read about all the details that make the difference here.

World War II aerial reconnaissance archive.

Looking for Second World War aerial reconnaissance photos? Here they are.

The internationally important archive of WW2 Allied and German aerial photographic imagery is moving to Edinburgh (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland).

Model Airplane Found Missing Man

In October 2005, a model airplane fitted with a digital camera found a man missing in West Texas, US, four months after he went missing.
During that time search parties on foot and horseback had scoured the desert in an expensive search. In just three sorties within one day the model airplane took 200 images and the search team rapidly found the body of David Lee Pettiet.

Read the whole story here.

Memphis Tornado damage aerial photos.

Memphis Tornado damage. Some amazing aerial photos.

http://www.laj-bus-assoc.com/tornado-02-05/index.htm

History of aerial photogrpahy

The first aerial photograph from a balloon was taken in France by Felix Nadar (his real name was Gaspard-Félix Tournachon). It was an image taken in Petit-Clamart, south-west of Paris, in December 1858, from a balloon tethered at a height of 270 feet. That first image has unfortunately been lost.

One of the earliest aerial photos of Paris, France can be found here. ©Hervé Lewandowski/RMN.

The story behind the First U.S. Aerial Photograph, in Boston, (1860) can be found here. View the photo here.

The first kite aerial photograph was taken by Arthur Batut in Labruguière (France) in 1888. Arthur Batut Museum (in French).

In 1906 George Raymond Lawrence just after the earthquake in San Francisco, CA used a system of kites and wires that carried a 46-pound panoramic camera 800 feet into the air and took some aerial pictures of the ruins.

Q: How can I have Real Time aerial photos?

A: Some people try to find a "Google Earth live".

I even was once asked for such a thing by a journalist, who was looking for satellite live camera feed, in order to cover a story developing in a dangerous area(!!!)

Sorry folks! It doesn't exist, at least not for you and me.

Unless you have your own satellite, you can't have Real Time Aerial Photos.

That simple.


PS Weather satellite images are as close to "real time" as you can get, but you can only see the clouds there.


Here are some samples:

ftp://ftp.dfd.dlr.de/put/wetterbilder/Greece/image1.jpg

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/east/

Pilots needed for aerial photography

Read here the details of the job.

Here's another one for twin engine Cessna, Piper and Beechcraft aircrafts.

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