Cameron Davidson

Aerial of Port au Prince that Wired ran in the current issue. From my aerial shoot over Port au Prince in late February. Wired looked at a set of my selects plus the images I placed with Corbis. They choose this image from the Corbis News Collection to run as the lead double truck in the Organizing Armageddon piece brilliantly shot by Q. Sakamaki. (Corbis #42-24605172)

Aerial Photos by Cameron Davidson

Aerial Port au Prince Haiti – Images by Cameron Davidson

Yesterday afternoon, I shot aerials of a project in the Nevada desert. After the first section of the shoot was completed, the pilot and I headed to downtown Las Vegas to shoot a few images for a book I am working on and to fill out the stock library.

The Las Vegas strip is a busy place –– on the ground and seven-hundred feet above the glow. Last evening there were three photo missions going on at the same time. Two B model Eurocopters, one with a FLIR ball on the nose and the R-44 I chartered. The controllers at McCarran did an excellent job of keeping us separated. All of a sudden at dusk, twelve Eurocopters in a pulsing line of landing lights, returned to Las Vegas from a day of Grand Canyon tours.

I’ve never seen so many commercial helicopters in one Class B airspace all converging to a single landing area. The controllers at McCarran did an excellent job of spacing and flow amongst the three photo/video shoots. It was quite impressive to see.

http://gardenandgun.com/newsletter/chesapeake

The wonderful Maggie Kennedy of Garden & Gun is an active supporter of my long-term self-funded project on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Garden and Gun published this piece in late January. Thought you might like to see a preview.

http://www.photoshelter.com/c/cameron/gallery/Aerial-Port-au-Prince-Haiti/G0000Q4Cp5ZMAfu4/

This evening I uploaded two new galleries to my portfolio site – Port au Prince Aerials and Rural Medical. The aerial images of destruction in Port Au Prince will be available through Corbis within the next few days.

National Cemetery

Cité Soleil

Tent City in the middle of Port au Prince

The Presidential Palace

Destroyed Homes in Port au Prince

Monday I dove into a environmental clash story and and spent the day in Central Virginia photographing one side of a complex issue. It was windy, cold and I was fighting to not show the snow in the photographs. Low angles worked along with overpowering the available light with strobe. It is a good story and I enjoyed the challenge of shooting a piece for a summer issue while winter is still on the horizon.

Less then thirty-six hours earlier, I was savoring the last remnants of Haitian heat and humidity as I waited for the flight home. American upgraded me to Business Class which was unexpected and a nice way to close out the week of photographing the poorest of the poor in southeastern mountains of Haiti. Last week I spent three days photographing a team of medical professionals from the Community Coalition for Haiti as they traveled to remote villages in the Sequin Plateau. The second day we set up a clinic in a small church with no windows and three small doors. The light was amazing and I shot what I feel is my strongest work to date in Haiti.

Here are a few of my favorites. Two new galleries will go up on my portfolio site tomorrow. These are the teasers.

Tomorrow I’ll show more aerials of Port Au Prince and the destruction of the city. A set of these images will go to Corbis and to aerialstock.com.

Susquehanna South of Harrisburg.

Frozen Vineyard in West Virginia

Paddocks in Virginia