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Aerial & Drone Photography

The world from above — braided rivers, surf lines and cities turned graphic, shot by drone from New Zealand to the Balearics.

Drone photographs: Lake Pukaki at dawn, the surf lines off Tulum, Bondi and Bronte from above, the beaches of Ibiza and Barcelona, and a braided river in New Zealand.

  1. Aerial photograph of Lake Pukaki at dawn, glassy turquoise water mirroring a pastel sky, mountain ranges layered on the horizon.

    Pukaki at First Light

  2. Aerial photograph of the sail-shaped W Barcelona hotel silhouetted against a dusk sky at the end of Barceloneta beach, dark sea below.

    The Sail at Dusk

  3. Top-down aerial photograph of turquoise Mediterranean water with a pale submerged rock shelf, reading as an abstract colour field.

    Turquoise Study

  4. Aerial photograph of a braided river spreading silver channels across a broad gravel valley floor between mountains near Glenorchy.

    The Braids

  5. High-key black-and-white aerial photograph of thatched palapa roofs on a beach edge dissolving into a blown-white sea.

    Palapas, White Sea

  6. Top-down aerial photograph of the sharp boundary between dense green jungle canopy and pale sand meeting turquoise sea at Tulum.

    Where the Jungle Stops

  7. Top-down aerial photograph of parallel white surf lines rolling across turquoise water onto pale Tulum sand.

    Surf Lines

  8. Aerial photograph of Lake Pukaki at dawn, a wide expanse of still teal water filling most of the frame, snow-covered Southern Alps reduced to a thin sunlit band on the horizon under a pastel sky.

    Pukaki, Before the Wind

  9. Panoramic aerial photograph of Lake Pukaki at dusk, glassy teal water sweeping left toward snow-covered ranges, a curved gravel shoreline and tussock headland on the right with an empty lakeside road.

    The Pukaki Shoreline

  10. Overhead aerial photograph of open Mediterranean water off Ibiza, turquoise shallows and dark patches of seagrass meadow, the surface fading to a lavender sheen toward the top of the frame.

    Posidonia

  11. Aerial of a curved white-sand bay with turquoise shallows, bush-covered headlands either side and a scatter of houses set back from the beach.

    The Bay, Northland

  12. Aerial of a single wave breaking in a long white line over a pale sandbank, with a surfer paddling in the green water below it.

    One Wave, From Above

  13. Aerial of a rectangular ocean pool cut into the rock platform, with heavy white surf breaking against its seaward wall and swimmers in the water beyond.

    The Baths From the Air

  14. Aerial looking down on pale rounded boulders at the water's edge with white water surging between them into deep blue open sea.

    Boulders, From Above

  15. Aerial of a brown rock shelf split by deep fracture lines, surf breaking white along its outer edge into dark blue water.

    Fracture Lines

  16. Aerial view straight down a curved beach: orange sand meeting green-turquoise shallows, with dark vegetated rock outcrops breaking the waterline and bush-covered headland along the top edge.

    Where the Rock Meets the Sand

Aerial available as fine art prints

Giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, made to order, worldwide shipping included. All prints

Prices in pounds sterling.