HANGING out of a door-less helicopter with an SLR camera firmly in hand shooting the details of nature\u2019s creations is all in a day\u2019s work for Mieke Boynton.<\/p>\n
Her speciality is abstract aerial landscape photography usually taken around 1000 to 2000 feet up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve chartered at least 15 flights over the past seven years to capture the images for my exhibition Skyview: Colours of Earth and Water<\/em> at Fairbanks Eye Gallery as part of the Biennale,\u201d Ms Boynton said.<\/p>\n She describes her passion for aerial photography as having two components.<\/p>\n \u201cFirstly, I love flying,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I will ever not get a little bit nervous, that frisson of excitement before you take off in a vehicle that flies through the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n The other element of it is seeing landscapes from a different perspective.<\/p>\n \u201cThe shots I take are of inaccessible places,\u201d she said. \u00a0\u201cMy images of the mudflats for example, you can\u2019t walk on them because you would sink in the mud up to your thighs.\u201d<\/p>\n