Customer Reviews
Come on BBC! - By: G. J. Clarke, 21 Aug 2008 
One of my loves in life is aerial photography. The TV series was excellent so I had high hopes for the book. What a let down: how can the BBC put out such a poor product? The resolution & poor print quality does no justice to what could be great pictures. I suspect it was done to manage the publication costs, yet the book is not cheap. Avoid.
Great views - By: G. J. Weeks, 31 Jul 2008 
I am surprised that other Amazon reviewers are not enthusiastic about this great book. It gives superb shots round our beautiful coast. I made me want to visit more of these places, travelling by helicopter if possible. Our coast from the air is a delight. My only quibble is I want to see more of the Hebrides.
The good, the bad and the mediocre - By: connoisseur, 02 Jan 2008 
I got this book because I have in mind to do a similar project on New Zealand & this book provides lessons, in particular:
1. Summer is not a good time to take aerial photos because of the amount of haze & dust in the atmosphere.
2. If you have no choice about (1) then at least use a uv filter
3. Telephoto lenses will make the focus soft
4. Don't take photos with incident sun angles, keep the sun behind you.
The photos in the book are a mix of good, bad & medocre with enough good to cancel the effect of the bad, leaving the whole thing mediocre. The book design is mediocre too; the use of a band of lime green across every page spread doesn't work & the obliteraton of part of the photo introducing each new chapter with a double thick version of this band is bad. A thin line in a natural darker green would have been OK. "Artistic" white space seems inevitable among pictorial book designers, but there is just too much of it, & I would have used different fonts. The TV series has not yet made it here, hopefully it will be a lot better than this book.
Very Poor Photos - By: Hugh, 25 Dec 2007 I received this at Christmas but was badly disappointed by the shockingly poor quality photographs, which were low resolution & sometimes blurred. You need to check the book first at a high street book shop before buying online, in case you too are disappointed by the poor resolution of the photographs.
