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The pipes along the beach at Manly are iconic. Virtually every sunrise you will see someone set up in front of them with a camera. To get in the air above the beach is amazing. The natural beauty of the beach makes the photograph but the man made pipes, along with the people taking a stroll at low...

When viewing the world from a helicopter you can see some amazing geometrical shapes that make up our environment. From corner to corner of this photograph the diagonal lines are beautifully even and strong. The irony that this beach is called Curl Curl just sets the whole thing off nicely.

The rock pools around Sydney make up some of the harbour and the beaches' most iconic locations. I really enjoy photographing them from all angles, especially from the air. The symmetry of the pools against the natural environment makes for some incredible photographic opportunities. If all the...

When the helicopter arrived over Freshwater Beach I knew straight away I was going to get the kind of images I had planned on. There had been no rain in Sydney for several weeks, meaning no fresh water runoff in the ocean. This, combined with the cooler ocean currents of the winter months, meant...

The water looks like it is coming from two directions in this photograph. In fact, what you are seeing is the sand bar at Freshwater Beach at low tide. The person sitting on a rescue board in the top left corner of the image really sets of the scene and give it a sense of perspective. You can only...

Cabbage Tree Bay (better known as The Bower or Shelly Beach) forms part of a Sydney coastal marine sanctuary that aims to protect the marine ecosystems of this coastline. The top of this photograph, where the water deepens from the rock shelf, forms part of an underwater sea wall that hosts some of...

It was one of the driest winters on record in Sydney, also one of the slowest for ocean swell. While the surfer in me was disappointed, the photographer in me was ecstatic. The lack of rain and small seas, combined with the cooler currents that flow up the east coast in winter, produce some of the...

A calm ocean, gentle offshore breeze, blue skies, sunshine and clear water combined to make a perfect winters day in Sydney. Photographing from the air at this time of year is magic; the beaches are uncrowded and the natural environment really takes centre stage with the people and man made...

The perspective I get when photographing from a helicopter is amazing. I can see things that are hidden from any other vantage point. I wanted a really simple photograph that had plenty of colour but no distracting elements. By eliminating the water and any man made structure, then filling the...

Sometimes you never really get the full picture until you get an aerial view. I have seen these blue and white beach umbrellas for hire along the Manly stretch for years, and always thought on a busy day they would make a great aerial photograph.

New Years Day 2016 was an absolutely magical Sydney day, perfect for getting a helicopter in the air above Sydney's beaches. Every beach along the coast was packed with people, colour and sunshine. It was a perfect start to the year.

Camp Cove, Sydney Harbour on New Years Day 2016. This beach is one of Sydney Harbour's gems. Protected from most winds and swell, yet close enough to the heads to (usually) have clear water. On blue sky days it comes to life with a stack of colour added from the people taking advantage of the...

New Years Day 2016 was an absolutely magical Sydney day, perfect for getting a helicopter in the air above Sydney's beaches. Every beach along the coast was packed with people, colour and sunshine. It was a perfect start to the year.

While doing some aerial photography from a helicopter I decided to take advantage of the perfect day and try for a panoramic image of the Manly and Freshwater stretch. What I really wanted to show was the proximity of the city to Manly. It is so amazing to live in a major capital city and have...

I always try and plan my aerial photography around a time of day when something interesting will be happening. The top (or bottom) of the tide, the midday sun and a host of other elements go into the timing of a good aerial image. This photograph of beach goers along the Manly stretch shows the...

Manly Beach is truly one amazing location. You can see ‘The Heads’ in this image which form the entrance to Sydney Harbour. The headland is mostly national park and features a few harbour beaches that are some of Sydney’s finest secrets. As you come into the suburb of Manly the population density...

Sometimes you get the feeling that Sydney is just showing off! Amazing beaches, clear water, a beautiful harbour, sunshine, green headlands and funky beachside towns. All you need is a good vantage point (or a helicopter) and you have all the ingredients for a great photograph.

One of the best places in the world to live, the Queenscliff Headland is the break between Manly and Freshwater Beaches in Sydney. The seagrass beds you can see beneath the water at the base of the cliff are where I have taken some of my best underwater photographs.

New Years Day 2016 was an absolutely magical Sydney day, perfect for getting a helicopter in the air above Sydney's beaches. Every beach along the coast was packed with people, colour and sunshine. Pretty much every time I am in the air I duck over for a look at Shelly Beach, it's just so pretty...

New Years Day, 2016, Manly Beach. I charted a helicopter to photograph the crowds on the beaches of Sydney on what was a perfect summer day. I left my run a little later than I normally would, to give people a chance to shake off the New Years festivities and get to the beach. I timed it right with...

I'd been waiting for the perfect day to photograph The Bower pool, and what a day I eventually got! New Years Day, 2016 was perfect with blue skies and plenty of people to add some colour to this iconic location.

Photographing from a helicopter provides a really amazing perspective. This image of Shelly Beach and The Bower surf break clearly shows the line of the reef that causes the swells to bend in from the open ocean and break below the cliffs.

There are a lot of iconic things about Manly, this photograph gets most of them in. The classic Manly Ferry, the pristine harbour beaches and the ocean side stretches of sand including Manly, Queenscliff and Shelly Beach. The only place in Sydney with access to both the harbour front and ocean in...

Photographing from a helicopter gives an amazing perspective of the world. You can really identify key elements to an image and single them out to feature in a photograph. For me, the simple things often work best and, during this flight, I was on the lookout for small details that would feature in...

Sydney was experiencing a small heat wave, the city beaches were packed to the point of not being any sand left to stretch out on. Instead of pointing my camera at the masses I took a helicopter south of the city to the Royal National park. This is a stretch of Garie Beach, with three people...

The iconic Manly Ferries as they cross paths on their journey across the harbour on a perfect Summer day in Sydney

Beautiful green bushland, golden sands, turquoise water and sandstone rocks. All the elements of an east coast Australian beach in the one place. Wattamolla in the Royal National Park really is a location where you can 'have it all'. Only about 30kms from the city, Sydney-siders really are lucky to...

The incredible setup of the Manly town centre is what makes it so special. Located between two beaches, one a protected harbour anchorage and the other a surf beach. It really is the best of both worlds and why so many people will never tire of this view.

I have photographed these rocks a lot. In fact, every time I fly over The Bower I stop and get a few photographs and every time I come home with something that I think looks great. On days like these, when the winds are very light and the swell virtually non-existent, it makes the whole scene look...

When putting together my flight plan for this trip I said to Michael, my pilot, if you see anyone out on their own, swimming or paddling let me know. Michael, as well as being a pilot, is also an enthusiastic photographer so he understands what I am looking for. He spotted this paddle boarder over...

I’d been commissioned to photograph an aerial scene and spent quite a while hovering at different altitudes and distances from the shoreline to get it right. That’s the beauty of a helicopter, you have this amazing dimension to work in that allows you to frame images then adjust ever so slightly to...

I had been planning a night shoot over the city for some time. Conditions were lining up to be perfect with the forecasts showing a two-day window that was the best for aerial photography I had seen in nearly three years. There are so many reasons why photographing from a helicopter at night simply...