…and some days you don’t.
It is a different situation entirely to photograph a place that you know quite intimately from a completely new perspective.
The university sent me up to photograph the campus. It had been a couple of years… new buildings and such.
But, as riveting as you can imagine photos of buildings from the air might be, I shall forgo that.
Instead, take a look at what else I saw:
Its like Stonehenge!
In all honesty, we were flying quite low… usually just a couple hundred feet. It was not subtle. In fact, I had a couple friends send me cell phone photos and shots they took of me from the ground.
Of course, that was not one of them.
Teeny whirligig helicopter. Land it on a trailer, wheeled in and out of the hangar by a lawn mower.
From a technical aspect, I was shooting three cameras: a Nikon D3s with a 80-400mm, a Nikon D700 with a 17-35mm, and a Nikon D2xs with a 18-200.
I think… there may have been more actual computing power in the three cameras than there was on the whole helicopter.
I’m saying nothing negative about the ‘copter at all, actually. I really appreciate highly analog machines.
Call it that ol’ born-in-the-wrong-decade sorta mentality.
Stay tuned,
-Noah D.