South England

By nomansland

•1

written 12/8/04 5:04 AM, published 12/8/04 5:04 AM

Tags: airplane fly

Some landscape shots from southern England that I took a month ago:

a lake in Beaulieu village,

the Calshot beach and

some lime cliffs. I shot the last image from a little airplane (a Piper), flying over the coast - a really exciting trip.

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environaut
12/8/04 7:14 AM

I especially like the limestone cliff pic. Beautiful contrast between the light cliffs and the dark water and vegetation on top.

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StevenWolf
•5
12/8/04 8:49 AM

Amazing cliffs. Beautiful beach shot. Looks like a nice place to stay.
- right brained...

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austinspace
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12/8/04 3:48 PM

Those cliffs are amazing. How close can you get them via boat? I liked the beach shot, too, and wonder if you got some close shots of those bath houses?
- here and there

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ROCKADEE
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12/8/04 6:51 PM

Beautiful Shots!
- NATURE RULES!!!

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Photo Yaloo
•3
12/8/04 7:07 PM

Very nice shots. I spent some time in England a couple of years ago. Very interesting country.
- In tune with the camera.

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nomansland
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12/9/04 7:00 AM

Hello everybody and thank you for your comments!
I'll try to answer to your questions:
First, to Austinspace: you can get as close as you wish to these cliffs by boat and I hope one day I'll do this, too. These cliffs that I shot from the airplane were Isle of Wight's cliffs - maybe not as famous as Dover's cliffs, but certainly as beautiful. I was very excited about taking pictures from a small airplane, flying at low altitude, and I shot maybe 20, but when I checked them at home, this was the only good one. All of them were blurred, because of the airplane's window, which got a lot of dirt on it - salt, water, dust, etc. A vintage open airplane would be perfect for this kind of job, isn't it?
Don't have close shots of the bath houses (not yet), sorry!
Literature about Southern England? I could recommend "Britain on country roads", but anyway there are hundreds of books about this area. I'm afraid I'm not very good in giving references, but I can recommend some places to visit, such as New Forest, Meon Valley or Isle of Wight.
- Kookaburra

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DanoB1212
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12/9/04 12:51 PM

So that's where we get chalk from, Ha! Ha! nice cliff shot's, looks like you must have been airborn to get em. nice beach too! Thank's Dan.

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