Junction 25 ...

It was up, up and away for me this morning doing some air to ground photography. When it comes to aerial photography I much prefer the hanging out of a fixed wing aircraft approach, rather than the drone approach, it's always a team effort and good results can only be achieved with a pre=flight briefing followed by concise inflight communication between photographer and pilot. Aircraft means we can go places drones aren't allowed we can also chase the sun and avoid the couds - although sometimes I will ask pilot Terry Holloway ( with whom I've been flying on photo missions since the mid 1990's) to circle and come around again so we time it so that I can use the shadows of the clouds on the ground to frame my main point of focus. Today's autumnal angle of sunlight created a 'picking out' effect with the shadows of the many visible raised human made structures and natural subjects - I rather like this shot of a unusually traffic free monday mid-morning Junction 25 of the A14 - this photograph makes it appear more like an architects model or a model car layout rather than the harcore trunk road it is.