New images published in a book offer a fresh perspective of Birmingham through the lens of a drone camera.<\/p>\n
Birmingham: A Drone’s Eye View begins with photographs of the city centre before flying out across the suburbs, to reveal the city as “never seen before,” said photographer and author Jonathan Berg. <\/p>\n
“Since the 1990s I have often been frustrated by not being able to get high-level views of the city,” he said. <\/p>\n
“In the 1990s I even chartered planes from Birmingham Airport to try and get the shots I wanted for my books. The drone has changed all that.”<\/p>\n
“At a time when media coverage of our city has been rather mixed, is a privilege to show the true nature of Birmingham \u2013 an inclusive and vibrant city with a surprise around every corner,” he said. <\/p>\n
He has been documenting the city since his first book, Positively Birmingham, was published in 1994. <\/p>\n
“There was no book of the modern city that you could buy, so I took off with my camera to take pictures,” he explained. <\/p>\n
“I took it to a London publisher, and he said ‘there’s a reason there is no coffee table book about Birmingham – it wouldn’t sell'”.<\/p>\n
“My wife and I literally remortgaged our house, in order to publish it,” he added. <\/p>\n
“We saved up and borrowed \u00a320,000 and the city got behind me, the Lord Mayor gave me a civic reception at the council house and we sold out 5,000 copies in nine months.”<\/p>\n
A donation is made to Birmingham homelessness charity Sifa Fireside, with books so far raising \u00a342,000, he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New images published in a book offer a fresh perspective of Birmingham through the lens of a drone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-300749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}