Product Description

Birmingham is England's second largest city and a hub of the country's industrial activity. The city contains a wealth of History going back to the dawn of the industrial revolution and beyond with a legacy of interesting architecture and historical features. The book contains over 150 images drawn from the Webb Aviation Aerial Photographic Library showing both the city's remarkable history and some unique visual insights into its architecture and people, from St Phillips Cathedral built in 1715 to the new Bull Ring shopping centre.All the photographs are taken by Jonathan Webb using the latest professional digital photographic cameras and specialist lenses including an extremely long focal length image stabilized lens mounted on a gyro stabilizer specially developed for aerial photography which has enabled probably the highest resolution civilian aerial photographs of Birmingham ever taken from a moving aeroplane. This is a collection of over 150 images carefully chosen from the Webb Aviation Aerial Photography library. It provides a unique visual insight into the architecture and people of Birmingham.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #228219 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Webb Aviation is run by Jonathan C. K. Webb, who has been in the aerial photography business since 1991. He is a prolific aerial photographer, taking over 10,000 aerial photographs a year. Much of his work can be seen on the very popular webbaviation.co.uk website, which receives around three million hits a month from almost every country in the world. This is Jonathan's fourth book. Manchester from the Air (2006), Liverpool from the Air (2007) and North Wales from the Air (2008) have all become local best-sellers.