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Spectacular Night Photography of London Causes Awe, Vertigo
gizmodo.com — Jason Hawkes has a very difficult, expensive, and spectacular work: he takes pictures from the sky. And while it may not sound very difficult, obtaining these crystal-clear shots while hanging out of the door of a twin-engine helicopter, everything vibrating like in an earthquake because of the rotor blades, and shouting orders at your pilot over,
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- DebsW, on 09/03/2008, -1/+5Wow, art and science coming together as this guy has to get his technology just right to create such beautiful images. I love it - but what a god awful job hanging out of a massively noisy and vibrating helicopter in usually grim weather - not sure I could do that even if I could create this kind of work...
- yokozuka, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3I would love to see all that gear mounted in the helicopter. It must be spectacular.
- Neiby, on 09/04/2008, -7/+1http://digg.com/people/Take_Digg_back
- DeskFlyer, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1I logged in just to visit that link and bury it.
- maxthreepwood, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2London is such a beautiful city from the sky. From the ground too, of course. Too bad you can't see the sky from the ground most of the times, though. Bloody clouds everywhere, all the time. Weather completely kills it for me.
- LostRiot, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1its sunny at the moment :D
- wonderwal, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Seeing those is amazing. Doing them like he says he does, hanging from the heli, must be an absolute thrill.
- devblogzone, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Yeah as Maxthreepwood has said, London is big and awesome city, no doubt about it
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