AERIAL ART

JAY & JAN ROODE

Flying over the most spectacularly remote wilderness areas of southern Africa, husband and wife team Jay and Jan Roode have spent thousands of hours in their specially modified aircraft to take the most astonishing photographs. The product of this labor of love is Aerial Art, with 144 pages of their signature photographs shot from the sky.

So, is that what it’s like to be a bird? Seeing things from above? “The moment we took off into that deep blue African sky for the first time,” Jay remembers, “our lives changed forever. “We felt like the contemporary Stanley and Livingstone, the original explorers; discovering new frontiers, photographing places that had never been seen before.

Seeing Africa from above would have been an incomprehensible concept to these two 19th century adventurers, but here we were – free, flying high above the small concerns of men – it seemed as though we had entered the realm of angels.”

A unique aspect of the book is the Index at the back, with photograph captions and descriptions of what is printed on the pages of this keepsake publication. Published by HPH Publishing and available in two formats – Standard Edition and Limited Edition, Aerial Art’s marvelous photography will make you feel like you’re gliding above these wonderous sightings. Says Jay “An attempt to describe the emotion of taking off with the sunrise on cool morning air and flying low over the dune fields, golden savannas or turquoise seas of this Africa of ours, is best left for our images to convey. Flying over some of the most beautiful wildernesses on Earth was the most liberating and romantic experiences of our lives. And it still is. Every time.”

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