Aerial photographers killed in ANTONOV AN-2 crash near Moscow

A small plane conducting an aerial photography assignment crashed Friday near Moscow, killing all five people on board.

The Antonov An-2 crashed by the banks of the Oka River, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Moscow.

The single-engine biplane's crew of two and all three members of the aerial photography team died.

It seems that the plane fell from an altitude of between 1.5 and two kilometers (over a mile) and burst into flames when it hit the ground. Contact with the aircraft was lost 10 minutes after take-off.

Police started receiving calls about a falling plane at around 6:00 pm local time (14:00 GMT). Russian prosecutors have launched a full inquiry.


(In early June another An-2 plane engaged in crop spraying and operating under reduced visibility conditions, crashed in southern Russia's Stavropol region, killing the two pilots.)


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AN-2 plane in Wikipedia

Aerial photos of Crop circles and the solution to the mystery.

Here are the original photos

Read four related posts about the solution to the mystery:

2008 Barbury Castle Pattern is Pi to 3.14159265358

Easy as pi: Astrophysicist solves riddle of Britain's most complex crop circle

Wiltshire crop circle identified as symbolic code for first ten places of pi

Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields

Klaus Leidorf. Aerial Photographer in Germany, EU

Klaus Leidorf is a German aerial archaeologist flying a CESSNA 172 in Germany.

Read about him at popphoto.com:

He's got a strong eye for geometry and landscapes, which you can admire in his collection of aerial photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/leidorf

His personal website (in german) is www.leidorf.de

Aerial photographer honored with Boston Post Cane at 93

Here's the story Laurence Lowry, a 93yo aerial photographer living in Hamilton, MA, USA http://www.wickedlocal.com/wenham/archive/x1498096627

Do it yourself orthophotography

Do it yourself orthophotography in an Alaskan village mapping project.

What you need is a helicopter, a digital camera and photo-modeling software.

Very interesting!

Download the article here (Adobe acrobat pdf file)

Benefactor & aerial photographer Mary Meader dies at age 91

Mary Upjohn Meader, a longtime Western Michigan University benefactor and director emerita of the WMU Foundation, died March 16 in Kalamazoo. She was 91.

As a young woman in 1937, Meader flew over both South America and Africa took a treasure trove of aerial photos that are still being used by scholars today.

Representatives of the American Geographical Society asked Meader to sign the historic Flyers' and Explorers' Globe twice to mark those momentous flights.

You can view some of the photos she's taken here and here.

To read about her click here.

Aerial Photos in National Geographic

Beautiful aerial shots (National Geografic).

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-island-aerials.html


http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-aerial-views.html

Aerial photography as a tool for the archaeological research

The remains of the Via Egnatia between Amphipolis and Philippoi in Greece were found using aerial photos of the region.

Four researchers of the Department of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, Greece, found buried archaeological remains with the aid of the Pan-sharpened (fused) image Quickbird-2.

The full paper with photos is located here: http://www.isprs.org/istanbul2004/comm7/papers/202.pdf

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.

Search for more airline, airport and business aviation opportunities in jetemployment.com or findapilot.com

BAP at Photopreneur.com

Photopreneur is a "must read" for anyone trying to monetize on photos.

And (talking about aerial photography), here's their latest Can a Balloon Inflate your Photography Income? post.

Sharper aerial pictures spark privacy fears in London

Read the story published in "the Guardian".

See the "super zoomed" map in www.192.com

County in North Carolina, US buys camera.

Harnett County in North Carolina, US will get US$11,664 for camera equipment that will be used for aerial photography.

Read the whole story here

Radio Controlled Helicopters For Aerial Photography

An interesting article on using RC Helicopters For Aerial Photography on rchelisite.com including advantages and disadvantages. click here.