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December 17, 2013
The aerial view of the landscape offers a different perspective to earth-bound landscape photographers. The former has been photographically explored by Richard Woldendorp.
He works from small aircraft such as a Cessna flying between 500 and 1,000 metres above the ground and uses three different cameras, a Pentax 6x7, a Fuji 6x9 and a Canon 5D looking down on a landscape from the aeroplane at noon. The emphasis is on form and design and his latest book is Abstract Earth, which draws on over 20 years of work.
Richard Woldendorp, Salt lakes surrounded by wheat fields, 50 kilometers north east of Esperance, Western Australia, from the series Abstract Earth: A View from Above
These are not some painterly abstractions for their own sake or glib, graphic compositions. Many of the photos of the Western Australian landscape, for instance, show a landscape that has been badly damaged by farming.
Richard Woldendorp, Saltwater affected dam, Wagin, Western Australia, Australia from the series Abstract Earth: A View from Above
In the above picture the rising saltwater table from the surrounding wheat farms has killed the forest and the freshwater dam.
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