Britian from the air

Winty

Salmon farm in the Shetland Isles, Scotland
Photograph: Adrian Warren and Dae Sasitorn/PA




Saltburn-by-the-sea, Redcar and Cleveland
Photograph: Ian Hay/Royal Geographical Society

You can see more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/sep/23/britain-air-exhibition-bath#/?picture=366944898&index=4

shanona

nice! what is happening in that first photo on the water? Some sort of fishing?

shanona

oh i re-read it. Salmon farm. haha got it! *facepalm*

robinph

Is the boat permanently attached?

trooney

robinph wrote: »

Is the boat permanently attached?

The salmon are usually left in these pens for about 18 months, to mature. The boat then arrives and sucks em all up (you can see the tubing which does this in the photo) and transports them off to somewhere to be killeded, packageded and eaten.

magicbastarder

the first comprehensive aerial photographic survey of britain was carried out by the luftwaffe at the start of WWII.

artyeva

nice. i love the one of the linseed field. never realised that flax flowers were blue.

Old Perry

Nice Pics