Wow.... Just wow!

Excelentes!

Increadibly Beautiful!
Thank you!

A-W-E-S-O-M-E ...

#9 is well thought. Great pictures!

Wow. Amazing photos.
London's so beautiful at night.
I'd love to travel there someday.

incredible

Wow!!!

Wow, fantastic shots. Of all the Big Pictures, this is the one I want desktop resolutions for the most!

Awesome! I just love number 2 where the street lights looks like the city´s blood. Thank you for this amazing images

Please travel the world and shoot other cities.

Amazing views.

Great pictures of London. How an Sterling be so weak? Makes me want to fly in there and buy a piece of it. Nice!

Stunning pics! Thanks Jason!

my question to the author of the photos: is there HDR in use on some of them, e.g. #2 ? what ISO/shutter settings were used to make those photos?
Thanks, and great work BTW

Amazing shot!

Big thanks to Jason for sharing these beautiful images!
Tasteful use of RAW HDRI processing.

London, the greatest City of all times!

Thanks once again for the great selection.

City look amazing from above.

Absolutely spectacular!

AMAZING photos!! The clarity of the pictures and the lighting is awesome! It's gotta be tough to keep the image focused so well in such low lighting. Thanks for sharing those pix.

Beautiful, nobody has put London in a better light in recent times... amazing.

Always great pictures. Thanks Jason for another fabulous set of pictures of home.

Awesome work. love seeing big ben in the last photo

Incredible.

Gorgeous. I love cityscapes, especially ones at night. I would not be sad if you did many more of these for cities all around the world.

Absolutely brilliant. Are they available to purchase in any format, preferably blown up onto canvas? Please email me if possible.

Absolutely fabulous photos.

Excellent work, as always.

I second the question about the shutter speeds and ISO values used (especially on the telephoto shots).

wow

Amazing! When do you come to Paris?

I use all sorts of shutter speeds and iso values when shooting at night, the most important aspect is to guard against the extreme vibrations caused by the helicopters. I have used various mounts to counter this, these were all shot with one I had especially made for my workflow.

Glad you are enjoying the images.

Jason Hawkes

Very, very beautiful!

Any EXIF data possible?

Makes me want to go back home

Magnificent! What a city. Photo #2 is particularly exceptional.

Absolutely beautiful

unbelievable, simply amazing photos..thank you so much for sharing

Absolutely brilliant, but I would like to have seen The Emirates.

Are any of these HDR images?

The photos are better than the last bunch of London photos at night. Keep up the good work!

Me too bruv, fantastic photos

Yet another amazing set of photographs.

reminds me.....................
..............beautiful from far.......but far from beautiful...................
stay well above London, please dont descend....enjoy in pics, dont go there and get disappointed!!!!
just a place for silly people who think they are the cream just because they imigrated there or bought a mac and livedin london!!!!

The glow of the street lighting is terrifically handled. (This is the equivalent layman's observation to those asking more techie questions about exposure and ISO :) )

This has become my new favourite website.
Great photos :)

As a Londoner living abroad, it sure makes me miss it.

Amazing London, i just love that city!

Great Picture, London is a very beautiful place

These are some great and beautiful shots! Did any of them go through HDR post-processing?

Jason,
What an amazing job you have done with your camera....The pictures make me feel as if I am able to reach down and touch London from here....I can't say enough about how beautiful your work is...Bravo!!!

absolutely stunning Jason, great job!

Jason, do you ever think about doing similar aerial shots for other cities?
if you need some suggestions.... maybe new york city? or hong kong?

Thanks friend, keep up the great work

Jason, amazing pictures, thanks so much for sharing!!!

Any plans to do the same in other cities?

Amazing Excelent Photos, congratulations!!!
thak you for this!

Wow. Great pictures, just like the last time.

Any chance to get pictures like these from Paris? :)

Was that all done in one night? I wish I could explore the city through these photos. What resolution were they shot at? Amazing!

Amazing photos. My favorite is #2 - the color is just great.

PLEASE please make these available in desktop (and widescreen!) resolutions.

Wow!!! Great job!

Jason-

What kind of outlets(stock, commercial) will these images be going to to justify the initial costs of such shoots? How did you work your way up to being able to do something like this?

Hey Jason,

What is the slowest shutter speed you are able to get from the heli with the stabilizers ????

Even i have to admit that film almost certainly would not have been able to produce such stunning images, which hurts me to admit ! Excellent images .....truly amazing.

Amazing!

Thanks a lot!!

Fantastic photos! I thought Canary Wharf was destroyed by the Daleks & the Cybermen, though...

Fotos maravilhosas, Londres como sempre linda. Mas, tem uma cidade próximo de Ouro Preto, Cachoeiro do Brumado que dá de 20 a 0

This is a great way to express your love for London. You've shown in these pics everything that I haven't been able to put into words. Thank you!

Very beautiful indeed... although seeing all that energy wasted for completely unnecessary illumination of (sometimes) mediocre or even ugly buildings - and that's just in one city! Simply makes me wonder if we will ever learn to take a little bit more care of the limited ressources we have.

hells bells and fantastic,thankyou,how do i get to see the others
heather,portugal

Londres, linda como sempre. Fotos maravilhosas. Mas existe uma cidade próxima a Ouro Preto ( Brasil ) que se chama Cachoeira do Brumado que dá de 20 a 0.

Inspiring!

These are just beautiful. Excellent work, Jason! I have never seen the beauty of London as nicely done as this.

Absolutely incredible. Having worked both in the City of London and also Canary Wharf for many years, I find these images completely enthralling. I'm currently working out of London right now and it makes me realise how much I miss it !

Truly amazing pictures...............

Thanks Jason for showing off my city so beautifully and artistically.
Your work is amazing.

what more can i say brill

Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Typo on caption 23

Jason, great work again!

Maybe my question is a bit lame and obvious since it's more about the technical side than the artistical side, but I'll ask it anyway, if you don't mind.

What made you switch to Nikon? Aren't the fast Canon primes (24/1.4, 50/1.2 etc) more beneficial for these kind of night images than the slight iso advantage Nikon seems to have these days? Or is it more of a style thing, i.e. wanting to use the extreme perspective of the 14-24, or maybe mix it up more (and make the most of those expensive flying hours ofcourse..)?

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Jan

Your work has inspired me for a several years and I was compelled to take up the challenge of becoming an aerial photographer working in Scotland and I love it. Although at the moment I am content with daytime shoots and leave the night work to you and Jonathan Webb. Thanks for bringing the art of aerial photogrpahy to a wider audience.

You're amazing Jason. I loved most of those pics!! Keep up doing good work!

Great collection!
Thanks for having it.

just.....breath......taking!

stunning. i can see my house in #14!

One word: PERFECT !!

Mr. Hawkes,

Just wondering what draws you to the city, particularly the city at night, and more particularly London at night. Clearly you find much beauty there--what does the city mean to you? What do you find there at night that's absent, disappears or hides during the day?

Thanks you!

Hi Jason, I've seen your pics featured on the BBC website as well - absolutely outstanding pics. I shoot aerials from a 172 in Toronto, but have never really dabbled in low-light or helicopter work. Your work is truly inspiring!

#8 is just lovely. I like seeing these "above" shots because patterns like that go unnoticed from the ground.

London is full of great places to showcase though, so how did the photographer pick amongst them?

Great photos!

Lovely photos.

Any chance to see some of suburban London?

Awesome ! Great shots!!!

Why? Why you just don't have all your pictures on Desktop resolution? T^T WHY?!!!
Awesome pics!! #2 is amazing!!

Good God I love this city.

TALENTED..............NOW THIS PERSON IS TAPPED INTO THE FIELD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR BRILLIANCE.

great photos, you must do this for other big cities! i suggest kuala lumpur (cuz i live there...)

I sit here in Seattle....dreaming of London.

Bloody magnificent!

B~

Wow, fantastic photos bring back heaps of memories of the years I spent living and working in the City.
Thank you both so much for sharing them.

Fantastic! Are you putting a book together of these images. Beautiful work.

Lovely pics.

We were in London at the time these pics were taken. I took pictures as well, but obviously they are nothing like these - I had to take mine from the ground :)

#23 looks like a screenshot from a sims game.

Thank you for sharing your creativity with the world!
#8 is breathtaking.

Best of luck and please post again.

By looking at these pictures, you ALMOST forget that slavery, colonization and oppression started in this city and spread like a virus to the world.

I said ALMOST forget.

Beautiful....and it made my day to (unexpectedly) see a great shot of the "Bridge"
Come on you Blues!.

I am not a fan of photos of city landscapes but how ever I must admit I loved #6, #9, #14, #22

Thanks very much. Impressive. Exciting and thanks for sharing them. Margret

In these hard times, this gives us a wonderful high. . Thank you

Fantastic work, Jason! These images are beautiful, and I'm impressed with how well you handled the low-light shots in a moving helicopter. I'd also be interested in learning about your technique and exposure settings.

i wish to visit someday!

Would love to see a Flickr (or other) album with large sizes available so I could set these as desktop wallpaper on my computer. Drool!

You had me with #3 - the rest are icing on the cake. Left in 1965 and still dreaming of London. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

Absolutely Breathtaking!

Can't wait to visit London someday :)

#2 just takes the cake! Great colors and clarity. Thanks for sharing.

These pics are amazing! Makes me wonder why I didn't move there when I had the chance. More please!

Fantastic

#2, #5 & #18 are breath taking!

I've never seen anything like that. before.. fantabulous!!!

Despite the many tax just that they cluold do ?

Wow!!!!! I stayed in London for a year recently (very close to the Gherkin).
These rather fabulous pictures brought back memories. I do miss London a lot and hope I get to be there for a longer while soon.

Cheers

wow my children and I were amazed by those beautiful footage. please do more from other countries or states. we look forward to see more of your works. thanks!

truly stunning pics!!!

Awesome pictures, just a pity that it's in London though

Excellent shots. I really like the photos when they were taken nearer to dusk. Details in the buildings could be seen so the building lights didn't seem too strong.

wow nice pics,fantastic,grate and ............................. thanks!

spectacular

Number 2 looks like a painting, beautiful shots!

Wow!!!
It's very beautiful!

Fantastic pics. This is a great way to see London, it truly makes me want to head back ASAP.

Last week I was up snowboarding near Mt Ranier in Washington State where we were doing our best to get action shots as we pushed our physical boundaries... and those of our photo equipment. Any tips for us amateurs who do not have high end equipment?

http://www.liveday1.com/photo/mt-rainier-in-the-background

Great. Very nice photos.

Come back for the 2012 Olympic Games - they'll provide an opportunity for some good shots.

However, we might not actually have the whole place quite ready until mid-2013 at the earliest...

Super job Jason:

It's great to be British, when I see London in this very colourful context!!

What about doing a 2010 Calendar using your BEST 12 images.....Bet it would be a winner!! I would market it here in the States for you!! Email me if interested!!

I can imagine what Manhattan / Central Park & the Hudson River would look like!! That would be a GREAT project for you to do!!

The technical challenges to these photos should not be underestimated. Existing light photography usually requires a compromise between the sensitivity to light, and exposure time. The greater the sensitivity, the greater the distortion, noise and general graininess of the image. As these images were take from either a helicopter or ultralight craft, the exposure must have been short. Someone knows what they're doing and has some very nice equipment... Perhaps Jason would be so kind as to give us some tips... In case anyone is ever falling out a plane and has remembered to take their camera with them...

In answer to a few of the questions above :

58 All my work is commissioned, I very rarely hire helicopters of my own back to shoot. The images here were shot over probably ten separate flights over one year. I do however sell images from my own library and though Getty / Corbis.
( the two largest image stock agencies )

75. I do have a whole set of other lenses, quite a few primes, but shooting at night I many use a few zooms because of the limited time frame. I love to try and get some colour in the sky and you have such a short amount of time after dusk before
the sky goes completely black that I try to get away from changing lenses too many times.

Thanks again for all your comments.

Jason Hawkes

You should publish similar things from Tokyo by night, there is definitely more to see. The sharpness of the pictures is AMAZING!
From a helicopter I cant believe it

Just wow !

Verrrry dangngerous place, terrible.....

Wonderful photo's and brings back memories-some good,some bad, some funny when I used to walk the South Bank in the 70s/80s as a policeman on the beat (now a rarity).

I 've expanded my English vocabulary with the nice adjectives, which where left by impressed people here. The main thing in photographs is sense of good shot. Even you have the best camera you won't do such good shots without this talent. Jason unites either the talent and the technical photograth skills.
I had a honeymoon in London. Your photos returned me to that enchanting time. Thank you!
The list of adjectives is below:
breathtaking
Fantastic
amazing
beautiful
wonderful
Impressive
Exciting
Lovely
Bloody magnificent
great
TALENTED
Awesome
outstanding
truly inspiring
PERFECT
stunning
Spectacular
artistical
Absolutely incredible
completely enthralling
Excellent
Inspiring
Absolutely brilliant
unbelievable
Magnificent
particularly exceptional
Absolutely fabulous

Wow............just.................wow!! Fantastic pictures. Well done.

perfect. Very nice photos

Stunning, it takes me home in so many ways!

These photos are real masterpiece!!! I've never seen such beauty before!
I miss London so much!!! I wish I were there now!

amazing shots, fantastic viewpoints. From helicopter? Also, many look as if you used the HDR technique...true? Great vivid colours. Cheers from thebassguy, usa.

The pictures are much better than London is!!! So beautiful photos!

Great photo's ..... you make it look acceptable.
Looks nothing like that right now while looking out my window. All I can see is the folly that is humankind!
Nice from far but far from nice....

having my mouth wide open. I'm a pilot in tanzania doing myself some aerials, in daylight. I know the challenges. So at night...well done Jason, even with the best conditions and newest gear.

The pictures are much better than London is!!! So beautiful photos!

Michael, ( comment 130 )

Everywhere is Dangngerous ..

These photos however show us what the birds are enjoying everyday / night.

Awesome.

Missed my old house by a few blocks! Excellent shots. Makes me nostalgic for the city I called home for a short while. :)

@132 - Great work - so now, avoid use of words like 'nice' and substitute a few of these!

E.g. I 've expanded my English vocabulary with the fantastic/amazing/etc adjectives

excellent pics - brings it home to me what a wonderful city London is

Soy de Argentina, y asiduamente miro esta sección de su diario porque me encanta, estas imagenes de Londres, son realmente bellísimas.... qué hermosa ciudad!! qué rica arquitectura y qué organizado el entramado urbano!!
Saludos a todos y disculpen que no tengo buena expresión escrita en inglés, por eso escribo en español

I wish to visit London sometimes. It looks stunnin on these pictures

abaldet kak ofigenno!!!

Fantastic.
To "the truth" - slavery, colonisation and oppression were taking place long before London rose to become anything significant.
Learn some basic history before spouting off.

WOW makes me wonder why Great Britain didn't ever rule the World!!!

With the current crop of cameras including the Nikon D3 the Canon 5D Mark II and the Canon 1D Mark III it is now possible to do these kinds of shots due to there lower light capabilities. I congratulate you on you taking advantage of this and producing these images.
In July 2007 We did a shoot over Manhattan at dusk with the Canon 1D Mark III of Air to Air shots and I can attest that shooting in these condition is challenging. http://screeningroom.smugmug.com/gallery/3145379_LEz4B/1/172618210_2uGop#173158021_h7ugC
Mark Forman
Mark Forman

Everyone is asking for technical answers ..... are you worried by sharing this others will try doing what your doing by investing tens of thousands in aerial gyro systems and hiring helicopters ??? Your work is amazing but is there a chance you could answer some tech questions that have been asked ?????

Nostalgic!

thanks fot that

Simply amazing, I am homesick now but loved everyone of these.

Mag.nifi.cent.

Beautiful shots!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!

The quality of light on this collection is spectacular. #2 is really incredible. I want to go to London now, badly. It's beautiful.

London is one of the greatest cities in the world !!!

Simply amazing and stunning pictures, you have captured the true beauty of the city!! They bring back a lot of fantastic memories from times spent here with my partner ... thank you!

Jason, I have been shooting aerials for over forty years and I must say this is great work! I, too would be interested in how low your your shutter speeds were even with the gyro.

Unbelievable! I've seen pictures of London but I never really knew what London looked like until now.

Did you have to procure permission or pay a fee to the owners of the London Eye? I understand they are real sticklers on commercial use of their property. Perhaps OK to have it among a number of buildings, but not as a featured entity?

Wonderfully photographed, having lived out of my native England for 41
years, I know now why I wanted to return, I will forward this on to all my
friends around the world.
I await ,more wonderful photos from you

Sheila Chandler

absolutely wonderful, the clarity is out of this world, and so many familiar scenes of my capital city.

Kevin, When Ashley went to Europe see got to go to London, Jealous I was. Sometimes we must see things we dream of, through others eyes. Also, the photots were fantastic, compare to the postcard she gave to me. "Beautiful work and thinking involved. in expressed London.Thanks, for the all those photo shots. Shirley

Now thats what I call beautiful photography, it makes one feel proud to be English, well done Jason . Regards John C from Cambridge

LONDON...WHAT A PLACE!!! THESE PICTURES BRING BACK TWO GREAT VACATIONS THAT I HAD THERE WITH MY WIFE AND FRIENDS. IT IS A CITY LIKE NO OTHER AND COMING FROM THE USA THAT IS SAYING ALOT!!!! THANKS FOR HAVING THEM OUT THERE OF US TO ENJOY!!

unbreathing pictures !!!
many thanks ...

Awesome shots ! being a Chelsea fan I love the shot of Stamford Bridge !! Thanks for sharing such breathtaking pictures...

Some of the comments on these photos disappoint me. So false, such a misrepresentation of a City that defies one description, and of a capital to a country that straddled the globe.

Put down your prejudices and realise the world is, and always was a complex place. Like people this City and its country is much more than one thing. Times change, attitudes change, Empires rise and fall, but London is still magnificent. I have been all over the globe, and I’ve seen the good and bad of many cities. They all have them, just like London. You cannot group such a vast amount of people together in one place and not expect that. This makes the comments even harder to understand. You see to call London just plain ugly, or terribly violent is utterly preposterous. In regards to beauty, I've seen many areas of London that I and many others consider so utterly beautiful they take your breath away. You can glimpse this in the photos. Indeed Bill Bryson says that London is more beautiful to him than Paris, and I do understand why he believes this. Even if many do not consider it nearly as pretty as a whole, I certainly find it more handsome and loaded with aura. There is something about that eclectic British mix, with the added international flavour (Indeed that is what it is to be British nowadays) that produces something so exciting.

We all ultimately have our own tastes, our own favourite places in the world, but you cannot argue with the figures, with the reputation. There really is nowhere like London. For me and many others it is the greatest city in the world. It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree, many others do and that at the very least says a lot.

Thank you for allowing people to see and grab the meaning of life in the only one city in the world I sensed FREEDOM. I lived in London 12 years and God knows I much I miss it !!

I'm from London currently living in Boston. My visa runs out and i'll be soon back there... i really miss it. Great City.

Jason:

I too am wondering how to acheive these images...are some of these photos HDR from a single raw?

OK, this fantastic pictures is just beacuse we should buy the first possible ticket to London and spend our last money there,,, no problem i´m comming to watch U2 live in Hyde Park 4/7. Wait for me London!

Congratulations Jason!
London is not as beauty as your pics. It's art, It's you again!

Terrible. Hardly worth sifting through. J/K. Profoundly beautiful.

Incredible photography, I'm almost speechless!

give me avalon in sydney any day.

we have great cafes, beaches and women.

you guys can have london!

Great pics.. any shots of Leeds, anyone ?

Would this be possible to replicate on HD Video as in a more Cinematographic realm?

Is this just a matter of apeture, lighting, timing, and luck or are there things I could do to aid my macro cinematography to reach this aesthetic?

Thank you for sharing these!

Fantastic! Makes you Proud.

Outstanding shots, even the one of Chelsea training. As a Man Utd fan that's hard to say.

Stunning photos and a GREAT look at a GREAT city! Congratulations really spectacular! We have Table Mountain here on the southern tip of Africa but we dont have views of a City like London. GREAT STUFF!

@98 You also forgot that the British Empire was the first in the history of the world to abolish slavery.

The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had slaves, how do you think the Egyptians built the pyramids? We fought the Americans on the seas to free slaves ships, watch Amistad.

i hope that i haven't stirred a hornets nest by my earlier comments.

the pictures of london at night look great. the colours are truly awesome.

have fun in the uk everyone.

Congratulations.......
That's amazing!!!!
Sooooooooo lucky living in this PARADISE.....

I think I see my house ; )

What an incredible set of images from a wonderful perspective. They rightly capture the buzzing essence of this fantastic city.

woow......i feel proud to be part of this city...

Big Ben... where's Big Ben... we know it is really London if we see Big Ben... (~;

Now if it were New York City, Jason would never run out of material... (~;

Unbelievable shots considering light conditions and vibration mentionned above as well as the small aperture he must have used to get such a huge DOF. Beautiful!

I love london. it was my home for 8 months and i dream of going back there. Thank you for the photos.

Photos like #2, #4 and #11 reminds me a lot of some movie scenes. In the movies, those scenes are just computer graphics, but these photos captured scenes in the reality!!!

Were these taken with a Digital Hasselblad because of the fine detail and lack of noise? If not, would you mind telling me which equipment you did use?
Absolutely amazing pics......well done! A breath of fresh air.

definitely looks better at night!

Where is London's mascot, Stabby McDrunkenstein? Its a city filled with violence, filth and rampant alcoholism. These pictures actually make it look appealing.

The pics raise nostalgia and fond memories in those who had been to this great city earlier. The beauty of London is captured judiciously.- Great Work!

Re: Comment 98 by the truth..... ahhhhh, the good old days. That's what put the GREAT into Great Britain :)

Stunning photos!!!!

Outstanding photography! Thank you.

To #191 that wanted to see Big Ben, look at the very last photo.

Jason Hawkes, God has given us the gift of Breathtaking Beauty through you. Your talent is a force to be reckoned with! With my hands joined and my head bowed, I say: "Thank you."

Great pics! Great city! Excellent catch! Thank you Pablo!

Nice work, I was just there in October and it was so cool to see those places all lit up from the air.

Truly breathtaking! They're really great!!

>>By looking at these pictures, you ALMOST forget that slavery, colonization and oppression started in this city and spread like a virus to the world.
I said ALMOST forget.
Posted by the truth

To "the truth": You are so mistaken in your childish ranting it's hardly worth responding to BUT FOR others who might get the impression there is any validity to it. You are pathetic. The English, with all their human shortcomings,are among the best of humankind. Get a life!

We are Yanks and visited your great city recently and it is truly amazing from the ground but I find it utterly impressive beyond belief in these aerial photos.

Truly gorgeous. Thank you for sharing. It’s been twenty years since I’ve been able to spend any time in London but it’s still one of my favorite cities.

The GREATEST city in the World ... stunning pictures.

Amazing.
NO RAIN!!!!!!!!

The London was the City of my birth and my home for several years. These are awsome and artistic shots of a place I love. I would visit more often if I didn't live the other side of the world.

By the way to poster #98 I think that you'll find that "slavery, colonization and oppression" was around a long time before this city.....might I draw your attention to the Egyptians, Greek & Romans perhaps?

Whenever I fly over any city at night - commercial flights only - I feel urged to get my camera and start shooting, even knowing I'll get nothing worth of the pictures. You have captured just the kind of sight we have with the naked eye. Thanks!

Incredible!! #20 really grabbed me, I had to lean in for a closer look at the green circle, the Ferris Wheel! Beautiful captures, as always!!

Once again, another excellent Boston.com slideshow/gallery. Great presentation with large, clear photos and very interesting subject matter. Jason Hawkes does very fine work in this one.

Thank you for for sharing with the world....These are absolutely magnificent pictures !!!!

Dora McClarron

Thank you and keep up the outstanding photos. Your link is currently be used to display the world at many schools. Most people are visual and your photos really help.

how long will this trendy HDR plague last?

incredible artistic compositions, stunning technical achievement, London!

all spoiled by garish colors. the processing technique is even a misnomer: it should be High Saturation Range, not Dynamic Range.

#151 said, "WOW makes me wonder why Great Britain didn't ever rule the World!!!"

Are you kidding? In the entire history of humanity no nation has ruled more of the world that Britain has.

To #98 and #206, for the roots of London, think Shakespeare, Newton, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Steam, the industrial revolution,, the Magna Carta, British law and democracy, before you think slavery and colonialisation. Think sub-saharan Africa having not a single town, written word, road, bridge, arithmetic, fence, agriculture, education, before colonialisation. And do you think the inhabitants lived safely under benevolent dictators ?

Image 11: the comment is back to front. The Thames rises in the west and flows into the North Sea (alias the German Ocean) in the east. If you are looking west (you are) you are looking towards the source, so you are lookingg UP the river, not down. Also objects on the right of the picture are on the left bank, and objects on the left of the picture are on the right bank. (The river is flowing towards you, so it is facing the opposite way to you, and the banks are ITS banks.)

Besides a few really well take photos, it looks like a lot of lights on but with no one home....

Excellent!!!

It really looks amazing!!! And you must have sych view photos of Boston city!!)) Can we just take a look? )

really great pictures, my recognition of the extremely good shots !!!!!!!!!!

My heart did skip a beat ! ..Its Beautiful !

very nice pictures....now I can see London with different eyes!

WOW - they are so amazing - thank you so much for sharing them.

woh,woh
mama ye

Jason, lovely work. From all the positive comments above, those in charge of marketing London abroad should be paying you something.

Apart from the £1150/hr and expensive gear and the skill to use it all, are there any other barriers? Do you require any extra special permissions to fly around the city and take pictures?

Also how do you plan a shoot like this, presumably you are looking for the right weather and light but after that is it a case of going up and seeing what you can find or do you have a pretty good idea of what shots you want before you get in the helicopter.

What fun to see so many familiar places from a new angle. Excellent work

The comments speak for themselves.......but the photos are an excellent document to say Britain is still GREAT

Truly Awesome....................

super...
thank you

Beautiful, superb, magnificent etc... Well done!

splendid! Thank you so much! Hagge de Vries

It was good

Thanks

wow.. just what a surprise!

Hey, these are really great pics - I saw them first at bbc.co.uk, but resized, much smaller...
Thanks for the pleasure, for the n-th time :)

I suddenly feeling very home sick (i live in Paris) fantastic pics....

Stunning. Yes, tech details would be much appreciated.

Expensive. But at least you do not get hassled by busybodies and cops when shooting from the air! I find that London is quite bad that way. Typical scene outside the London Eye (see bottom right corner: it took the cops three minutes to reach these kids after they set up a tripod):

http://www.willems.ca/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/eye_1724a.JPG

Are you sure this is London!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, these are awesome! so beautiful!!

Wow, these are awesome! so beautiful!!

Good =_=+

The pictures are AMAZING. We visited London 3 years ago, so the pictures brought back wonderful memories. We LOVE London and the U.K.
Does anyone remember what Thumper's father said to Thumper in the movie "BAMBI?" IF YOU CAN"T SAY SOMETHING NICE

220 - so are people supposed to say THANKS for colonisation? are you serious? the ends justify the means, no matter how cruel they are... you are sick.

great pictures
i miss london

I've recently returned to the States after living in London for three years and your photos brought a tear to my eye. They capture the city beautifully and really are stunning. I've been missing London a lot lately and these photos made it considerably worse!

BLOODY FANTASTIC MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sharp Clear and Crisp Color.... LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!!!! Salute.....

Good job Jason!! The pictures are wonderful. Now living in the states, I spent 16 years working in Hoxton, brought back great memories! Thank you

I guess the Brits have all the electricity they need. No need to turn out any lights aye??

one of the most breathtaking moments is to land on Heathrow airport on a clear evening, you should sit on a window seat on the right hand side of the plane and you'll see everything from Canary Wharf, the City, West End, Houses of Parliament, Kensington and Chelsea, and down to the western suburbs

you can have your own picture like this but in motion - this is what this set of pics reminded me and I am thankful for that

tolle bilder, grossartige impressionen, vollendete technik. man sieht in die bueros und den bleistift auf dem schreibtisch liegen. die fotos vermitteln durch die technische brillianz das gefuehl, direkt dabei zu sein. ueber den strassen und gebaeuden zu schweben... eine wunderbare idee fuer alle, die in der ferne sind.
sorry because of the german language.... but I am sure you try to understand the german words.

Is it really that expensive to charter a Eurocopter in London? That seems about twice as much as it should be. These are really lovely photos, and I appreciate the fact that Jason's vision is great. The late-day dusk light allows for many of these to be "nighttime" photos without obscuring all of the unlighted areas.

I absolutely enjoyed them. #2 of this set is stunning. I don't know if anyone has read any of Ernie Pyle reporting during the blitz, but this reminds me so much of his reporting on the fires that ran through the streets as he sat on his balcony.

http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/erniepyle/wartime-columns/a-dreadful-masterpiece

Very Very Very nice pics Jason. From a Londoner who has been away ( I mean out of the country ) for many many years.. Hope you don´t mind If I hang a couple up in my apartment.. For sentimental reasons of course ..

Thanks again...

To clear up a couple of questions, there are not HDR. All images are shot as RAW files, imported and have minimal work done to.

All my flights are pretty well planned out beforehand, but its certainly the case that I shoot a lot of my best work just flying around looking for a good shot.

For instance image 1 (of the 02 ), my personal favorite here, was shot after completing a commissioned shoot on the south bank of the river. I saw it lit up and thought it would make a fantastic image, we did though have to sit in a hover for 15 minutes waiting for permission to overfly the site, as its on finals for City airport which is just across the river.

good pic

great shots!

thank you........as a londoner now living in Egypt it means a lot to know that others see the same beauty i see whenever the sun shines or the lights go down on london's streets

Thanks god, its possible only from U.K Art, Culture, Design, All the best come from London, Thanks again.

*sigh*

Preciosas fotos y preciosa ciudad. Saludos desde España.

Wow!I have never been at London!But it is just WOW!Respect from Kiev! Sorry for my English,cause I learned it by myself ))) Maybe some mistakes are in this commennt!

great pics! but you really should have a picture of upton park

I am in love with London all over again!

Brings back memories from WWII and a few times since...great city!

Was it very cold that day ? London seems so empty, almost nobody walking in the streets... Pretty sad, indeed.

Beautiful! Brought back memories of a wonderful vacation!

AND EVERYTHING THERE BUILT BY PERSONS LIKE YOU AND ME. BEAUTIFUL!
THANKS FOR GIVING US THIS POINT OF VIEW.

I was born and raised in London, and a few of the city's landmarks I'm not familiar with ( the London Eye , the O2 , the Gherkin ; all recently built ) are nicely featured here.

Serious Fc*king genius!

i live in london and love this city. excellent pictures, sometimes i forget how beautiful the city is.....

Eerrr, where is London, again?
From Dave Lingard, Grimsby.

As a proud Londoner, I want to thank you for capturing the beauty, spirit and greatness of our wonderful city!

wow, great photos!

"Look, kids, Big Ben, Parliament."

Fantastic pictures....I grew up in Boston, lived in NYC for 10 years and now London...

Looking at those pictures makes me realize how lucky I am...

very nice

Wurdsmyth, Big Ben is a bell you idiot.... you can't see it it's in the tower.

Breathtaking!

a real city! the only ones in the US are Boston, NY, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco ...maybe LA.... if anyone thinks Phoenix, Atlanta, or Denver are real cities and compare needs to have their head examined!!!!

Really excellent - especially in the City because the streets are so narrow you don't get a feeling for how it fits together.
Congratulations - I agree with the poster who stated that this captures the beauty of coming into Heathrow at night.
But obviously much much better !

absolutely amazing! Excellent job Jason! I m thrilled!!

Wow! Absolutely beautiful beautiful pics!!!

How fabulous. What a wonderful treat to see your pictures

>>By looking at these pictures, you ALMOST forget that slavery, colonization and oppression started in this city and spread like a virus to the world.
I said ALMOST forget.
Posted by the truth

Stunning pictures from an artists point of view.i'd like to know where 206 lives, bet his country has benifitted from ours in some way! such jealousy! he obviously hasn't read anything on how much money this country has given to others, money we no longer can afford! These pictures colour in the fabulous architecture of a vibrant city, but are the millions who live there all in the theatres?!!

Wow...just wow. This brings back so many memories of when I used to live in England. I didn't appreciate the big city so much then, but now, I wish I had taken more time to enjoy it. These pictures are stunning.

As an American who lived in The Square Mile, the suburbs, and Canary Wharf over a period of three years, this collection brings back some great memories of a beautiful city. I only wish the food was as good as these pics...

Awsome.............Amazing.........Some day I shall need to take time to really look at At all these!

I love the images. Where was the photographer to be able to get the bird's eye perspective??

Enjoyed your beautiful pictures, Jason. My husband and I visited there 3 years ago but could not see all the sights. Your pics show us some of what we missed. The pics with the "eye" helped orient me as we were touring in that part of London.

Fantastic stuff.
In the post processing did you desaturate the greys and enhance the yellows????

Ain't nuthin' like Crawford, Texas!

After living in overwhelming sprall, traffic congestion and smog, hideous strip development as far as the eye can see, a cacophony of bad signage, disharmonious, clichet architecture in the United States, these pictures of London, and the essence of it's urbanism seems like a dream. Why can't we learn from this and other great European cities? Has living in the hideous development in the US destroyed our visual capacity to enjoy and demand better environment?

beautiful, bello, hermoso, bonito, i love you london

lindos colores pero horrible ciudad....

awesome... there's alot of things that i should learn more..... :)

WOW - they are so amazing - thank you so much for sharing them.

I've always wanted to see London decorated for the holidays...so thanks for
the amazing picture of the Christmas lights on Regents St. AMAZING!
What unusual lighting!

Excellent

This photos are awsome! just like you were dreamin'! looking down there and it was so nice with kind of tecnology that human build and this place was taken in London and some other parts of Great Britain. Thanks Bob for shaing this to me.

WOW,BEAUTIFUL PHOTO OF LONDON I LIKE IT NICE PHOTOGRAPHY THANK'S TO SEND ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAVE A NICE DAY & THANK'S######

Beautiful pictures.

Do you you use only one gyro og two gyros cross angeled 90 degrees?

Fantastic Pictures!! It's a side of London That's not usually seen, Well done.

Post #287 The Truth Really Hurts....

What an uneducated, narrow-minded post. Practically every large civilisation throughout history has dealt in slavery, colonisation and oppression.
Nevermind what city it is......beautiful, artistic and skillful photographs Jason!

Re: comment 98, as an Irishman I'd love to agree with you but you can trace full-scale slavery, colonisation and oppression back to before the Roman invasion & colonisation of Britain in AD43. And the Romans had slaves too. Next time you're in London check out the relatively recently discovered Roman amphitheatre under the Guildhall off Cheapside - quite amazing!

Proof positive of why I could never move from this great city

wonderful

I live in London. I have seen all these areas but these beautiful images which glimpse in these photos takes your breath away. I find all these images completely enthralling.

Stunning photography, it makes even the boring bits beautiful !
Thank you for your talent to show i have such an amazing capital city.
(Shame about the global warming tho)

Beautiful pictures Jason and I love the colours - maybe the poster who made the denigrating comment is one of those who print a few photos nobody likes and charges really high fees for them! Were they taken on a Sunday evening to get the streets relatively empty of people like that? My favourites are #1,4, 5, 6, 11, 19 and 21, but all of them are really beautiful. Do you have other shots of world famous cities at night? I'll definitely be looking for more of your work if this is typical. Great stuff.

Fantastic! I love London!

How can people complain about the food? As a world city London can offer everything from fast food to fancy restaturants.

@ post 290. American food is possibly even worse than British food so why complain??

Beautiful, over 3 weeks when the Carnival is starting here in The Netherlands staying my Husband I for 6 days in this most beautiful city in the world.

a big WOW here!
I wonder....are you a balloon owner? :-)

I really enjoy your web site. These pictures bring back fond memories as my mother is from the UK, and was born and raised in London. Fabulous job to Jason Hawkes

Amazing, thought Paris or New York is better, I change my mind! Superb pictures !

Happy and stunning memories of the 6 years I enjoyed London, now in Chattanooga, TN.

very good

very nice. if you will take some pictures in paris, new york you will be the best

Just great..

My God... it's amaizin'... hope some day visit that beutiful city... I really don't know how London could be, in Uruguay (3º World), we are too far from that... excellents pictures...

Tooo NiNaaa,

so lucky that I have seen alot of this. :)

PRE kra sno !!

Those were some very amazing pictures that you took and especially of London. You must have had a magnificent view!!!

Lovely shots. You are very generous to share them. Thanks!

Chelsea = fail. Manchester United = win.

wow,
iuts great

how cityes waste energy!

this is very cool! you should do this for new york or beijing!

Phenomenal!

Beautiful! Thank you so much for taking me back to one of the 2 places I most love to be: LONDON & the Grand Canyon!

My family had the wonderful pleasure of visiting London in the winter of 1972. These fabulous pictures show me how much the city has changed and encourage me to return. Thanks from the U.S.A.

Truly Beautiful! I typed in my maiden name and you popped up with these awe inspiring pictures. What a lucky name!

Great, greeitngs from Sola, Norway

Amazing! It makes you feel like you are God overlooking everyone! A bit eerie but nice at the same time!

I most definitely want to go back after seeing these shots - London is always high on my bucket list !

Emma - Ontario, Canada.

These pictures are amazing. I'm blown away by their beauty...

WOW IT IS VERY NICE

woh so beautiful place i love London it is realyyyyyy a lovely place

Absolutely fantastic pictures, a very good job, congratulations!.

chelsea ; P

In Russia, there is no such landscapes.
There, only the forest, bears and vodka))

That is the way I like London the most.

These are great, being born here should know all there is about London.

Never seen this view before.

it would be great to see a comparison with other world-class cities such as paris, new york, and of course, tokyo.

298 ¿por qué horrible...? ¿debido a la delincuencia..o?

These pictures are a dream, congratulations Jason.

"By looking at these pictures, you ALMOST forget that slavery, colonization and oppression started in this city and spread like a virus to the world."

dumbest remark ever. evidently history isn't your forte'.
oppression, slavery, and colonization dates as far back as biblical times.
last time I read I read the good book, I recall it mentioning the Tigris and Euphrates, but not the river Thames.

I have been to London several times and would love to go back , these photos have enticed me all over again...

I wish I could live there!!!!

Thank you, Jason, for the pleasure I have just enjoyed and for pleasures to come as I try to pick out those buildings I was involved in during 40 odd years spent working with cranes etc. I have an image that I can't share. On my 8th birthday, September 7th 1940, my Grandfather hoisted me on his shoulders and we looked from Kew across London towards the East End where the night sky was a mass of flame. What did the Lutwaffe achieve Jason? Nothing. Your pictures show no trace. There's a lesson there somewhere.

Hmm ... I suppose this calls for a sequel to my Westminster Bridge sonnet! Offers, anyone?
W.Wordsworth

although not HDR, you must admit that you have used active D lightin within the images, and then edited them to inhance the fill inlight.

I am interested to know what ISO they are shot at

Great graphisms, wonderful colors. Thank you!

Stunning pics. What size`enlargement possible? WHich camera at what ISO sped used?
landscapesofindia.com

You have just made me incredibly homesick.......waaaah! I still love London, and it will always be Home, I just can't afford to live there anymore! Sad isn't it?

Incredible shots, London is beautiful, and I hope I get to see it in person soon.
But I do have a question; How the hell do Londoners manage to navigate that mess? The streets look like someone took a bunch of squid, threw em against a wall, and called it traffic planning...

As a born and bred proud Londoner you have just confirmed that I live in the best city in the world........Thank you for sharing your work with us! Tonight it is covered in snow how about some snow shots?!

287 Did you ALMOST forget that this wonderful country stood ALONE against the tyranny of Nazi Germany and saved the free world? We Londoners dont hate. Just enjoy the wonderful beauty of these images and chill a little!!!

Truly stunning photographs of the most stunning city in the world. Thank you. And anyone who is stupid enough to believe that slavery started in this city does not deserve to live in our country.

Glorious, clever, astounding photography of a wonderful, historic city. Congratulations to Jason Hawkes. I'd love to see more of the ancient sites too next time, like the Tower of London. Thanks for sharing your talent.

Looks like the City of London could reduce its carbon footprint by turning off just a few million lights ...

Nevermind how many times I visited London, I had never saw it at night and from these special angels. Thanks a lot for for publishing this new look of this beautifull ancient city.

Nur schade das die Sonne nie scheint !

Pizdato :)

amazing pictures.just wonderful. wish I could visit this city once in my life time.'congratulations to Jason Hawkes for such brilliant photography.

Where can we buy them?

Fantastic images. Very inspiring. I came here after a member of Pro-Imaging told me about them.

Excellent ! I wish I could live there!!!!

I wonder how long it will take to remove all those monstrosities and make the land actually inhabitual once again.

"London is on the move again."

Indeed.

I am a SOUTH AFRICAN and live in Pretoria .
i have never really had an interst in Londen , more in the Alps or Fiji!!
but these pics makes a person think TWICE about fascinating London really is and BEAUTIFULLL to say the least!!
you guys are incredebly lucky to live in such clean enviroment , more than i can say about us!!!

Fantastic photos. London is beatifull city. I ll hope stay there in a short time.
Congratulations Jason.

QUITE BREATHE TAKING!

Amazing pictures! So many people, crowed in like rats...and they don't even realise it !

maguinificas fotos
é realmente uma cidade unica e com uma beleza que tambem mostra como ela é importante para a historia da humanidade.

maguinificas fotos
é realmente uma cidade unica e com uma beleza que tambem mostra como ela é importante para a historia da humanidade.

Excelent Photos. For those of us that enjoy night photography, you've raised the bar to us !! Thanks for that.
Jorge,
Santiago, Chile

It's very beautifull city.There are a lot of greatest monuments & unusual buildings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like London the most. :)

Excellent It is a wonderful way to see the beauty of this city. Awsome picks.

I think we should declare London and Houston sister cities . LOL!!!

Yes, London was involved in the slave trade. But in my lifetime I don't recall black men being dragged behind rednecks' pickup trucks and burning crosses in the Royal Parks.

This was also the city destroyed by Germany while Americans stood around trying to decide whether they wanted to rid the world of the great evil of Nazism. It took the Japanese to make them make a decision.

I 'm an Armenian I studied in London in 1952 -54. I realy like London then. it was British, British!
To me, the beauty of the country should be looked at from inside out, and not only at illuminated England with glorious colors!!!
I admire Jason Hawkes work immensely for making England so unrealisticly and amezingly beautilful!

These pictures are absolutely awesome. Can Jason share the apertures, shutter speeds, ISO and film used or if digital (what White Balance did he set for his camera) for these fantastic pictures?

Thank you for these wonderful Pictures - I love London and even though I have not lived there in 40-years I still consider it Home - thank you for sharing these Gorgeous slides

Amazing shots of an amazing city, sometimes looking up isnt the only way to appreciate architecture eh?
Never lived in it, only near, and only disappointment is that you have to be wealthy enough to enjoy good food, good theatre and plan too far ahead to stand a cats chance in hell of sharing it, and leave on too early trains to get home!

Sundays are the best.

Superb views t brighten up a gridlocked UK.
Bip

Thank you for these amazingly clear, gorgeous photos, and for so generously sharing your work with us.

London is a wonderful city and these superb photographs display its beauty and diversity. Our family has many happy memories of this captivating city and these photographs re-ignite the memory and enhance the desire to return.

great pictures but he should have included some snaps of the new wembley with its 133 metre arch that lights up at night...its drawfs the london eye

I live in India but come often to London since 1978. I love this city. It is my second home. Looking at these beautiful photos taken by Jason rekindles the excitement and vibrancy of this great metropolis. Home to millions. City where millions come as tourists. Millions come to studty. Millions come to click business deals..These photos are so clear and real that we can trail this city

bravo achieved some poorer immitations on a flight into city airport from Switzerland, put the planes windows do rather get in the way..

Its such a shame that the beauty int reflected in all our inhabitants, shame you cant get us snow bound in our bi decadely winter falls...

What a horrible city!

HAHA, just kidding! Crazy pictures!

I've noticed several critical comments about lights and carbon footprint. Folks, you should bone up on power generation, base loads and stuff. London's night lighting is powered by electricity that is there. It doesn't creat a demand.
Don

Enjoy the aesthetics and leave out the politics. Jason has done a great job capturing the beauty of London.

Love living here!!! City that you cannot forget is - London!

wow that pictures were amazing they will look great on my Decktop :) they are very beautiful

to 360...I would suggest you to learn some history before writting your comment...England was just the part and by far not biggest in human lives losses in WW2 (Russia lost 27 millions, compare to UK`s 1,5mln)...
London is beautiful and I love this city...and I also live here..

I have lived in London and still travel into this great city on fairly regular occasions. Having flown over the metropolis on numerous flights, in and out of Heathrow and London City airports, I have looked down on most of the areas in these images but I have never seen them quite like this! Beautiful!

Too bad to see that visitors of this page do not realize how catastrophic these pictures are from an ecology perspective. I feel very concerned by the fact that we continue to enjoy such pictures while we should be desperate by the way we treat the planet and its resources today. Think global please, not individual !

fantastic i love them all wonderful photographs

I have visited London a few times and loved every minute The stunning night time pictures were just wonderful .I must go back soon.

Stunning Pictures. I couldn't imagine living there. I 'm used to living in wide open spaces. Mountains, prairies and blue skies. Alberta Canada. Beautiful pictures none the less.

They are breathtaking----I enjoyed the GREAT CITY for about three years. Lived at Elvanston Place.

Cleveland Brown N.C.

Being stationed there in the late 1950's as a U.S. Marine working across the street fromthe U.S. Embassy, the cityof London only becomes more beautiful and yet mysterious. I loved this city and always will but I see after 50 years it has just become better and better each passing year.

Shows how lovely a cosmopolitan city can be... Lovely lovely lovely.

Hollywood should film more movies there...

most are hdr photos. nicely done.

Your generosity in sharing these with the world is to be commended. Thank you

Awesome photos Jason..... best I've seen of London

Great shots!

As nearly everyone who posted before me said, amazing pictures of an amazing city! There should be more blogs like this one on the net, they make you stop and think for a while. Keep it up.

What a pity some of us could not see this nightscape the way Jason did! Thank you for the clarity and perspective that puts a different concept on the city of London, despite all of its history and defects. Pettiness aside, the birds get this view free! Thanks, Jason Hawkes - guess your parents must be proud of your achievement.

Was study at London 2 years ago. been through all these places when I was there, but never got a chance like you to view these places from above.
Look great!! Love it!

this made my day! what a fantastic city, and even more fabulous photos. amazing. love it.

THAT IS GREAT!!!!!FABULOUS LONON, FABULOUS PICTURES, THANK U TAKING ME BACK THERE, LOVELY!

I live in London and love it , but have never seen it from above. It's amazing! Thank you.

What a fantastic way to view human achievement - and insight into human values... Bravo to all who help save the world's forests and breathing spaces and who can still appreciate sunsets ! A great thanks to Jason Hawkes !!!

wonderland!

simply amazuing and wonderfull photos, no onder i cant survive without going back to london once or twice y year there is no place like it ,,

gladys herrmann now in munich ,,,,,,
thank you once again for sharing them with us

Very nice images Jason, if is possible to know: Hoy you can to avoid the difraction on the lights.
Congratulations from Barcelona/Spain

My daughter lives in London, I love this city and your photos are wonderful!

Esto no es más que un alarde de pelas. 2 o 3 giro-estabilizadores, lentes de 2.8, un helicóptero.....

The photos are beautiful...! They just got snow, too!

Hi Jason,

You mentioned the most important issue is to guard against vibrations and you have one mount that you like best, would you share which mount that is. Thanks and congratulations on wonderful work.

JA

This was nice because we could pick out places we actually visited while there, however they look vastly different from overhead, and during the night.
I would have liked to see the same shots with the contrast of a day and night view of each. I understand that some would not be be as dramatic due to the lighting.

Think I must go there anytime in my life. London is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and this pics confirm it. Thanks to all Londeners and hail England, mother of a variety of rock bands in all history of music.

Cheers from Colombia

Great pictures, good to see my football club, shame about Arsenal and Spurs

wow

What fantastic pictures of a fantastic city, I live in Enfield which is just north of this fabulous place. these pictures confirm why I could never live any where else in the world.

Wonderful photos. Modern pro level digital SLR cameras with low light shooting capabilities with low-noise high ISO settings, coupled with modern image stabilized lenses really make for amazing photographic opportunities.

fantastic pictures and what a beautiful city. What makes street pattern in the City so unusal and shown wonderfully here, is that many of those winding streets followed paths animals took to reach the rivers, 3000 years ago.

Too true, 431. Someone earlier commented why on earth aren't London streets "planned"; common sense tells one that they evolved upon winding country lanes and a few staight Roman roads - so thanks to Jason we can now see all this in the full glory of his photography. Here's hoping lots of Esperantists are looking at these photos - saluton al vi, de mi al vi! Jane, Cumbria, UK

I'm very lucky to have lived in London all my life. I've visited many others and none compare to it's beauty, history and culture. We are not crowded in like rats, as was mentioned by someone who has obviously never visited, but have plenty of room to breathe and enjoy this wonderful city.
Thank you Jason x

London - A very beautiful place to live- thoughi have not been to London the pictures make me feel as if i am there .Good Work Jason

In the words of Louis Armstrong "its a wonderful world"
beautiful pictures extremely well taken, the camera must be something else.
congrats.

really beautiful photos.
it is also a wake up call about why we are seeing global warming.

Love this series.

wooow!!! really!!! this is... woow!! i like it so much!! :D thanks for that!!

These pictures are truly beautiful. London is such a wonderful city, rich in history, rich in culture and I am so looking forward to visiting there again in the next month. I am looking forward to seeing some of the sights displayed in these pictures, although I realize they will not be from the same angle nor with the same dramatic effect.
London, you rock.
Jason - WELL DONE!

London never looked so wonderful. But I have not been there for for than 40 years. Have to go back and check it out

Awesome Beauty of the Concrete World

GREAT

As a taxi driver at night in london one really cannot see or realise how beatiful our city is from above day or night .Fantastic photographs a pleasure not to see the road works and traffic congestion ,I think I'll retrain to be a helicopter pilot !!!!!!!

London I miss you...

I live and work there. I have no choice at the moment. It is a miserable and murky city - the most depressing place where I have ever lived and hope to leave soon.

And yet, you have made it look gorgeous. That takes some true skill. Bravo Jason!

Amazing pictures, puts a different perspective on London.

The most beautiful pictures of London I've ever seen.

Isn't it true... 'If a man is tired of London, he is tired of life' ?

Perhaps he was referring to modern world slavery.

Pese a mi resistencia el amor de mi vida me hizo conocer London.
Que razon tenia !!!! Es una increible ciudad ! La diversidad de lugares, gente e imagenes, hicieron de ella una de mis ciudades preferidas.
La fuerza que puso mi reina en que conozca Londres, hizo que me enamores mucho mas de ella !!
Gracias Alejandra !!!!!
Te amo mas que nunca !!!!!!

REALMENTE MARAVILLOSAS LAS FOTOS,LAS TOMAS SON IMPRESIONANTES.HACE MUCHO ESTUVE EN LONDRES,ES UNA HERMOSA CIUDAD,PERO JAMÁS LA HUBIERA VISTO ASÍ. ¡FELICITACIONES DESDE BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA!!!!

These images remind me of home so much. London is such a beautiful city, and your talents capture the best of the city. I hope you don't mind but I have saved a copy of each for my personal collection.

Keep up the good work.

ESPECTACULAR,HACE 6 ANOS VIVO EN UK,Y NUNCA PUDE VER LONDRES ASI,BUENISSIMAS,ALCIRA DESDE MILTON KEYNES,NACIDA EN BUENOS AIRES.

No other place like it! Beautiful. Especially when the lights are on!

As a Londoner I love these pictures. As to how we navigate the street layout (Brian, #358), many of us either use the Underground (subway), memorise the routes of our daily commute or get a streetmap. The only real difficulties arise when driving, because many streets are one way only...

hm, had to take a deep breath after looking at those unusually beautiful pics -
how about some pics of Cape Town at night - eh?
PS. I wonder how many light bulbs there are in London...

THE GREATEST CAPITAL CITY IN THE WORLD, MY CAPITAL CITY.

incredible sights and photoshots!!!!!!

I have my neice Shannon to thank for these fantastic pictures of my home, she knows how home sick I get, even thought I immigrated to Dallas, Texas 18 years ago. I got to come home for Christmas for the 1st time in 18yrs they say home is where your heart is, proud to call London home. Thank you Jason

447. nanana, you can be tired of london and still love life... at least as a man :-)

e.g. i became tired of tubes, human traffic jams on the sidewalks, superficial finance ppl, london wind & weather, etc.
moved to switzerland now and am loving mountains, nature, lakes, weather, quality of life and infrastructure, down to earth ppl, etc.
AND: can u imagine, here trains run on time despite the ultimate evil, SNOW!
(london was great but a little inhuman)

I live in London and sometimes forget how beautiful it is...i just want to say thanx to my friend sadat, a kindred spirit for sending me this link on a day that i dont feel so great...its cheered me up..)))))...thanx

Shazia...

Superb photography of a graceful city. Dr Johnson once said that " If one is tired of London one is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford", Thanks for a few blissful moments looking at these.

Muy Buenas, también la fotografía es arte, mientras haya una persona detrás de la cámara, Felicitaciones un Abrazo Frank

It has been thirty years + since I visited this wonderful place and how it still has a draw to go again some day. Its a place decked in history that will never change no matter what happens to it heart.
Thanks for the photo shot it briliant.

Well done Jason and thank you! This series of photos is even better than the last one you did of London from above at night.

To Eizelle (comment 445)
London is not the easiest city on the planet (too easy is oftentimes boring) but it is so far from being depressing! I'm half French/half American and a Londoner (by choice). I have lived in Paris, Berlin, New York and in California. And I can definitely say that you CANNOT beat London when it comes to nightlife, parks, culture, cultural diversity, beautiful architecture/ugly architecture (its architectural chaos is what makes it so interesting to look at), successful juxtaposition of old and new, restaurants, bars, clubs, queer culture, free museums, village feel, musical diversity, self-derision (something Brits in general are very good at), theatre, concerts, cosmopolitanism, tolerance, secret performance venues, etc, etc.

To Jens Köhler (comment 365)
Das ist aber gar nicht wahr! Of course it does not have the best weather. After all, this is not southern California. But I would like to remind the people who moan about it a little too often that most of the time temperatures are mild and pleasant, that we very commonly do have glorious sunshine and amazing sunsets. Furthermore, the idea that it constantly rains is completely erroneous. Rainfall in London is light and it is fairly distributed throughout the year, hence the lush gardens and parks. The average annual precipitation is 583 mm which is the same as Berlin and Barcelona and less than Paris, Rome or Bordeaux!

Think big, think positive! It is only by basking in negative thoughts that people make it depressing for themselves. Start looking at the silver lining of everything, start basking in the appreciation of your surroundings and your life is bound to change.
London, thank you for being what you are. I love you.

trii balaa meu muitoo show

god..after viewing the snaps of LONDON , going to pack my bags and return to my city, I am so homesick

What a beautiful city. USA and UK will always have THE special relationship. I love London, England, United Kingdom. Looking forward to 2012!!!

You want to see it gridlocked by 2" of snow - doesn't look so pretty then! Mind you, Photoshop can make anything look good! Nice set of Snaps though.

The comments say it all.
IMy wife and i live here somewhere out in the suburban fringes like millions of others and out there you don't appreciate quite how photogenic this city is especially but not only when the lights are on.
And I think it has improved in the 30 odd years we have been living here (I'm from the British provinces, she from overseas so we have "adopted" it.

You can't beat War-torn South East London on a snowy cold evening.

I live and work in San Francisco which is, as you may know, incredibly beautiful. However, one of my dreams is to visit London and these night-view photos just cemented it for me. I'm going! God Save the Queen!

These photographs are absolutely fantastic. I can count on one hand the number of times I have visited London because I don't like big cities I get the feeling of being closed in. However, having viewed these I realise what I have been missing and shall most certainly get my act together.

Wow... Amazing photos...
I live in London, was very nice see these photos.
I loved !!!

hermosas fotos! me hacen recordar mis paseos por esas calles, amo esa ciudad ... es increible! y me encantó ver estas fotografias.. Londres siempre sorprende!!! "Excelent pictures, congratulations from argentina!"

Jason Hawkes has truly not only captured some stunning color images, but he has an eye for the "pieces" of the City of London; he has framed little architectural and historical snippets of the jig-saw shapes that make up London. Whilst other aerial photographs of London typically show the city as an amorphous, meandering mass of streets and buildings, Jason's photos have been angled to capture something of the underlying, basic street-pattern of distincts streets and blocks in a way I have not seen before. I almost could trace out the "route" of the old London Wall in one of the photos. Wonderful, and insightful job.

I work in London every day, You miss so much from street level, if people only looked up!
Great photos, thank you

Absolutely breathtaking photos of a beautiful city. Hope to see London before I croak! Thanks for posting in case I don't make it there.

cooool!
potos

Thats the city i was born in, but have never looked at it that way,
what fantastic photography.

I have only one word: exceptional. Congratulations for your "art works".

André Ribeiro.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Beautiful

jason: any chance we could see your setup? the gyro sounds interesting.

I've never really liked/appreciated London. After viewing these pic's and knowing most of these sites, I've realized the beauty that's hidden beyond what the naked eye can see at times. Thank you.

Stunning! London is a fantastic place! You don't relise who beautiful it is until you see pictures like these!
Well done, you have done a wonderful job!

Thank you for the amazing photo set! London is brightly adorable at night...

london 1 dream, my way, destination.
see u soon

What a set of fantastic photographs. The results are amazing. Modern technology is great but it is even greater when it is used by a very talented person like Jason Hawkes. This world is blessed with talented people like Jason, who willingly share their talents with all of us, thank you.

I COULD SEE MY OLDE OFFICE AND MEETING ROOM OF 30 YEARS AGO [SAME AGENDERS DIFFERANT PEOPLE ] LOVE THAT CITY WOT GREAT PIXS BRILLIANT CAMERA WORK KEEP YOUR LENS CLEAN AND YOUR SHUTTER OILED ? ROCKY MOUNTAINS ALBERTA CANADA [JASPER -BANFF ] SHOHLD BE YOUR NEXT PROJECT ]

how beautiful london is, its simply amazing, love the pictures,

It is beautiful. I have no words. I live in Ukraine and I have never been to London but I was amazed. Thank You!

Muito linda essa cidade... Tenho amigos e parentes vivendo aí e dizem ser maravilhosa!

I wanna go home!

Hey, I can see my office window!

"Stunning! London is a fantastic place! You don't relise who beautiful it is until you see pictures like these!
Well done, you have done a wonderful job!"

Google translatior send regards! Hahaha jk :P

AWESOME photos! *-*

The Flower of Cities All. In these photos, it glows like a vast multifaceted gem--

This city awesome , really city of the world

I am currently studying the knowledge of london and am very proud to be british and live in such a wonderfull city. Those photos are WOW! FANTASTIC or what Jason you are the nuts mate! BRILL can we have some more please? thank you for shareing them with the worl

Stunning photos of a stunning city. Thanks for sharing.

I've visited London a few times and everytime I left I've felt like a part of me was being torn away.

I can see my house from picture 3. Fortunately it's on the right (your left in the photo).the river or I'd never be able to get a cab.

Lovely, lovably London--my residence of choice for 11 years. It's a glorious set of pictures. Kudos to the photographer captured it so beautifully.

Stunning photos of a stunning city. Wonderfull. Thanks for sharing.

I've visited London a five times and every time I left I've felt like a part of me was being torn away.

Well done, you have done a wonderful job!"

These photographs are fantastic, very nice see these photos

Absolutely true Xav, that was the only thought going thru my mind as I looked at those pics. What are they in some kind of 'carbon footprint' contest or something! Turn your lights off if you're not using them people!

I love it love it and love it. These pictures make me very proud to be living in London. What a beautiful city !!
Now the world get to see the london they dont know about.
Good job.

Wow... Amazing photos...
Tanks.

Beautifull pictures of London indeed. I appreciated them very much because I was there just at the end of January for two days and some of them recalled to my mind such lovely memories of places I visited there. I went to see Quidam of "The Cirque du Soleil in The Royal Albert Hall and also Mamma Mia, the musical, in the West End. Especially the first was great indeed, I'll never forget it.
Marco

Utterly amazing pictures! This must have been fun to do. Never saw a town so beautiful, all lite up.

These are beautiful photos but it does put into perspective the worry about switching your TV off at the socket each night instead of putting it on standby

fantastic photos of the best city in the world, it makes me feel so proud to be British.

In one word: A M A Z I N G.
I visit London in November last year.
The stars in Regent Street are as beautiful as from beneath.

its just beautiful

very very very very beautiful photos A M A Z I N G !

Me emociona verte Londres sos hermosa y te prometo volver !!!

beauuuutiful indeed....!!!
London..., here i come....
affimation.... affirmation.... affirmation...

great pictures...................its looks like heaven............

I have been twice in london. but what I see now ismuch beautiful than what I had in my memories, I guess better visit it again shortly, but this time much more careful and deeper vision.

Hi! Thanks for those beaut pics! I have always loved London ever since I first saw it years ago and came to live here (from Leicester) It's great to see these great arial shots... Photography at it's best!

thank you,

There's only one way to feel, one word to define, on quickly scrolling down each of the pictures, pausing here and there to take a harder sharper look: AWESOME!
Congratulations to the authors, mostly congratulations to LONDON for displaying such an impressive lit-up night picture film.

a fantastical view of our capital. Reminds me how beautiful cityscapes can be...
A COLLECTION OF 21ST CENTRY CLASSICS

Simply stunning!

I have been to London on two occasions but have never realized the beauty as seen from above. Awe inspiring with sights to never be forgotten. Great work.......

My friend and I have never been in London, This city is awesome.Thanks a lot for such a fantastic & cute photos.
We wish, we were there sometime .... Now I wanna tell Arash that I love him so mush...

I love Paris, Prague, Venice, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, but nowhere quite matches-up to London. These photos just bring a great big lump to my throat.

yeah,
it's a bueatuful city, with great peoples... i know... i was there... :)

What views. Just beautiful. I was there in the 80's. I was at the hall of records trying
to search my husband's roots. I did not have enough informatiom. I also saw the palace and piccalilly circus. it was all a wonderful expereince.

NICE JOB

wild!

Drat, since I'm in my 80's, I am quite sure that I will never get to travel to London, but since my ancestors came from Whittlesea, Cambs., at least I can claim a bit of relationship. Thank you for making it possible for me to see a bit of where we came from.

Mm... very beautiful, but in my city Moscow (russia) i can see bear every day on the street... i think it is more amazing!

Nice

Beautiful pictures of the world's most glorious city. Aaron (464) you're spot on. I lived in London for eleven years until moving to Dubai in September 2008. Only by living in a city like Dubai, which is, frankly, an anodyn, vapid strip of plastic can I truly appreciate what I have left behind. A huge, meandering reflection of arguably the world's best example of ethnic integration, multiculturalism - a glorious tapestry of life. From Brick Lane's curry houses to the mosques of Tooting, the dog races in Walthomstow and the gay marches in Soho - it's truly amazing and I look forward to my visits with tingling anticipation. It also, rightly, has the best political representation and an exciting and vibrant media - us Londoners should be enormously proud - and I for one cannot wait to get back to my lovely London. The next trip for me is March and I intend to hit the world's best nightclubs, again, for some of the best DJ's the world has to offer, again. Bring it on London! (and rain all you like, it's better than 95% humidity and 48 degrees!)

Currently living in Perth, Western Australia however born and bred in the east end of london like 5 generations of my family before me. These pictures are great the place does have so much beauty and history.

félicitation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! étant francaise je me permet quand meme de vous dire que LONDRES est une ville magnifique malgré la misère on peut rien qu'avec ces photos rever

As a photographer I can only express my admiration of Jason's wonderful work. A true professional.

It's just like Osasco City!

It might be a night view of how wonderful London.
I have not seen such a beautiful night view though I went to London six times. Thank you for making me happy.

‚r‚ˆ‚‰‚Ž‚‰‚ƒ‚ˆ‚‰@MIyata from Japan.

Having lived just nw of london-26 miles from Marble Arch & Oxford St., London was a treat for a born New Yorker-5th Ave. Hospital, the old London was a real treat. These Photos should be placed in a museum for posterity! A real treat, Dave Riker, West Palm Beach, FL.

Anyone hear of Peak Oil or Climate change

What a depressing waste of valuable resources

Gorgeous. Probably the most beautiful city in the world... Great pictures!!!

I HAVE BEEN TO LONDON SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS, AND ALL I CAN SAY IS WWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWW!!!!!
FABULOUS PHOTOS!!! I AM AMERICAN MUSICIAN/NEW ORLEANS BLUESMAN
J. MONQUE'D AND MAY I SAY LONDON NEVER LOOKED BETTER!!! WOOOOW!
J. MONQUE'D

Would the last person to leave London, please turn the lights off.

Whoever said that Nodnol would be a backward city?

Yes indeed!!! this pictures are a true demostration of London s uniqueness!!!
I lived there almost five years and will be returning very very soon for more!!!
congrats jason!!! it is undeniable that you have the london eye!

Agustina from buenos aires

I'd love an excuse to get back down to London....

hermosa ciudad .. hace poco estube ahi .. muy linda

Fantastic pictures.

Thank you very much for sharing,, Makes me proud to be a Londoner!

Its cool

I was there once in the mid 80's. Stayed at the Tower and roamed as much as I could in the short week. These are amazing shots. Many buildings that were not there then. It seems to have cleaned up a bit - i.e. the docks and rivers edge. I hope there are still some of the old pubs and such that I had so much fun discovering across the bridge, but I fear they are no longer around. Someday I'll go back again.

Amzing Photography Jason Hawkes!! Can you send us some hard earned photography tips to the ametures like me?

BEAUTIFUL birds eye view at night. ultimate night photography.super sharp pictures, corner to corner.these are digital pics or you use chrome film ? thanks for such stunning pics. keep it up.

I remember London from my six trips from Norwich, the location of our air base, in 1944. Those were the days and London looked good then even with the barage baloons anchored all over the city and the ubiquitos "buzz bombs".

London........, the best city in the world.

Yeah! Very nice photos indeed! But (don't tell anybody!) almost every town looks nice at night! Try it yourself! (of course,it is a big difference between "Pro" and "amateur" photos,especially when you need a helicopter...) Anyway,the photos are great!

So beautiful!

These are stunning photos of one of the world's truly great cities. -- many thanks!

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I actually think these sorts of bird's eye shots are even better during the day (you lose the brilliant lights, but you get more detail). Anyway, I was wondering if the photographer might consider providing Boston.com with some day time photos.

Cheers, and thanks again!

My thoughtful nephew in law sent me these beautiful pictures of where I grew up. thank you Laz, Hertfordshire is not a million miles away, however when you are a London person born & bred, you can take the family out of London, but .... You can never take LONDON out of the family
I miss my London so much!!! Ex Lononers are going to stop visiting London if the goverment keep putting on driving TAX expences when driving your family in to London, cos you can't depend on the TRAIN SERVICE.
GOD BLESS MY LONDON CATHY & CO NOW IN ST ALBANS HERTS XXXXXXXXXX

As a Londoner I could never capture London like this - leave it to a tourist to get such geat pictures. I must get some printed.
thanks a lot!
Annabel ( from Archway, London)

From someone who lives part of the year in London and the rest of the year in San Francisco, I can only say that these photos confirm what all of us Londoners have always known: London is simply the greatest city in the world. Fabulous photos of the place where my heart lives always

I live in rural Ninety Six, SC, USA. and recently returned from a trip to Kenya by way of Heathrow and Gatwick, riding the National Express bus between airports early drizzly morning, Jan 22. This was only my second visit in London, altho brief. These pictures take my breath away. To know I breathed the air gives me pleasure.

I was born in s e London (Elephant & castle) in 1928 so i am now in my eighties
we were very poor but very happy, we were able to roam and even get lost, hang on the back rail of a horse and cart, and arrive home tired and hungry having seen another part of this wonderful town and no harm having come to us, I wanted to place my wifes ashes around where we use to play as kids in the thirties, but the place had changed so much I fetched her home to where we have lived for the past thirty years ( new milton in Hampshire) Thank you for an amazing show.

Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lived in London all my life, what a BEAUTIFUL city I live in. Lucky old me.

... muito, muito interessante esta vista (cá de cima) dos "telhados" de Londres...

Um abraço,
Gabriel

Beautiful absolutely beautiful. London has always been my favourite city.
It retains its poise and dignity while moving and growing.

I MISS London so much.....I was born there but now live in the USA. I get back there whenever I can..... Such beautiful picutres, THANKS!!!!!

Beautiful!

Awesome viewing, How l wish l could visit more often, these pictures brings life into the buildings.

Congratulations! Stunning photos of a beautiful city

Amazing pictures! If only it looked as glamorous on a dull Monday walking to work

WooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW!!
Soooooooooooo Beautiful!

What amazing pictures! I grew up in various parts of west London and it is now a very different place. A ten or twelve storey building was considered tall. Now look at the height of the towers. Thank goodness for the familiar landmarks, Tower Bridge, St. Paul's. At least I could get my bearings. Haven't been over for twenty years. Must go back soon. Cheers and thanks. Jill in Nova Scotia.

Wonderful pictures of the most beautiful city in the world. How lucky am I to be able to call this my home. I am proud to be British and wish everyone could see , feel and experience the amazing architecture, vibrance, beauty, and history this fabulous place has to offer. There's no-where quite like it in all the world.

Amazing!!! It's true, each city is beautiful at night, but this artist has the gift of taking special photos from special angles ,in special moments, for those special people who can appreciate .

Now I know why I love London above all the cities I have visited. It has a personality unlike any other. It has not tried to compete with NewYork or Moscow but has retained its own style mixing old with new to create the best place to be. These phots are a great amabassador and lure you to London even if its just passing through on a stop over

Gee it open my eyes I though it was old Buildings etc ,quite good ,may be a good calendar project,cheers Bertjl.

Absolutely hotness !!

the cityscape shoots are mind boggling and mesmerising...

Great work, love it!!

nice .....nice......very nice.................

Magnificent set of reminders of our fabulous 18 months in London recently. truly awesome shots and stunning lighting effects. thank you for taking us back there through such a fabulous collection. congratulations. Shane. Sydney

YOUR COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN LONDON ARE AWESOME!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING

un oras magnific ca si oameni care l-au locuit si-l locuiesc

The words from the song say it all "maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, that I love London town" ............and I left London years ago

Wonderfull I was delighted

some very beautiful photographs, which we have seen from the ground

really wonderful

Muy bonito. Asi podemos ver la cuantitat de energia electrica que gastamos sin darnos cuenta que algun dia se acabara.

fantactic,awesome,breath taken,always wanted to go there,now even more

I miss England so much I am living in America at the moment.So much colour!

I want to go back...now.

very beautiful

that all looks brill but i lived in london its not that great take some photo on street leval then you see the dirt and grim

I can't remember the author, but.....
"A man who is tired of London, is tired of life."
Need we say more...

Absolutely superb!
Judith of Bournemouth

Gorgeous. I am homesick.

This is london by night .What of London by day. This will tell us the other side of the story .Generally London is fantastic.M y last visit was in april 08 and hope to visit again in 09,

eu nu cunosc l. engleza decat f, putine cuvinte vdar prin deductie inteleg despre ce este vorba. aceste vederi sunt minunate si ma intreb in mintea mea batrana oare exista asa ceva daca da , sa va ajute Dumnezeu sa le vizittati sa le admirati si sa spunti si altora cum se traieste in lumea civilizata

Wow! I have always loved London, but you sure make it come alive. I stayed at the Marriott County Hall on one visit so #24 is totally awesome. The view across the river was beautiful at night, but the view you gave me from above is totally breath taking. Thanks for being so talented, daring and willing to share.

I have been to London and it is a great city although I had never seen it from above. Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These photos are truly magnificent. Show the immensity and beauty of this city. I presume they were taken from either a helicopter.

Great pictures. I tell you what, I am amazed at how vast the city is and the lights are beautiful. I am a native Texan, but my heritage is from England. My ancestors came from England on a boat to Virginia in the early 1700's. So proud I am to be a Texan and of English descent. Beautiful London!
Carla from Houston, Texas

Absolutely brilliant!!

When i am thinking for how long you've been flying over the city to take those pictures and your effort to set the camera...i can't say anything more than: YOU ARE THE MAN!
Also the technology that u've got it for this set is from the last generation.Your tallent is coming from the future!

As a Londoner, may I say 'luverly jubberly"

The Photos are brilliant, the photographer has caught the life and soul of the City
- well done indeed!

Great pics, you can't see the graffiti from up there
or the litter.

Ohhhhhhhhhh My God...I Just Cant Imagine How Much Beatifull London city Is I Wish I Was Here .........And I Really THanks THe Photographer For Making Us Able To see London City from Above After Seeing THis all I Am A Big fan Of U..

THaks ALot..Milion times

Wow, amazng ,just loved them,

Thank you for the lovely photographs. I was born in London and lived there until I married. I try to go "home" every year. The pictures made me homesick.

Joyce M. Jackson

Wow does no justice to describe these photos.
Amazing

I loved your pics, my son who lives in London sent them for me, I was blown away by the beauty of the millenium dome and the many new buildings. The dome as I guess many have said looks like an alien spaceship from the air ( not that I've ever seen one!) The one with the Barbican site really interested me as I worked on some of the roof costing as my then job demanded, hard to believe it is so old now. My husband who is from Greenoch enjoyed them as well, as an ex seaman the development of the docks is of particular interest . It was fun taking a tour around the stamping grounds of our misspent youth.
Many thanks for the memories, we must go back to catch up, A Scottish Kiwi and a Scotsman.

very nice

Im an ex guardsman. now in Australia, thanks for the tour down memory lane, wow how the memories come flooding back, blooming AMAZING yhanks guys,

Te felicito por el trabajo! Fernando desde Argentina.

Congratulations! These are the most beautiful pictures of London I've ever watched!! Amazing work. Thanks from Spain.

bloody hell! its gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great picture well done

I looks like heaven to some but others it's HELL.

so miss london

very beautifull pitures , i am enjoy ,iwant inthis pitures copy write

Amazing work! So many memories coming back...
Thank you for this awesome work, I love it.

Awesomely beautiful. I have wonderful memories. I lived outside London in Harpenden and walked to the train station everyday through a graveyard with the aroma of fresh baked bread, stopping along the way to buy some on my way to London to work for Bectel as a travel agent in the 70s. Loved the theatre..(.saw Rudolf Nureyev.) and the parks and museums.
I was in love....madly in love, and I was there to be with him. Aaaah, magical London. Thank you.

Breathtakingly nostalgic to an ex Londoner, absolutely fabulous. THANKS!!!!!!

wowowowowow. funny! =D lol hahahahahahahah.....well lets talk bt the pics.....there very nice!! ha ha.

I was born in London, but never knew what a beautiful place it has come to be, your photographic prowess certainly shows in these wonderful illistrative photo's a real treasure. Also a puzzle on wondering how you managed to get such stunning views ????

im in london n i can feel tht its beautiful,bt frm t sky it look more awesome

These photographs are fabulous, they make me proud to be British. Very well done

really great photos matey...absolutley love london at night especially when its really early and your walking home from a party when nobody is about and you feel like you own the city. These pics really capture that emotion.

LDN for life

Moved to London in 2000, from the sunny tropics. A Persian cab driver once told me, it's like a vortex that you cannot get away, and nine years later, here I am still. In one of the greatest place on earth.

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Anyway it's so beautiful!!

Wow brabo~

Wow..........Good...

wow the city of lights
but they spend a lot of energy
do something to stop it

Absolutely brilliant!! I think is very good,briliant,apsolutely butifull fotos.VERY GOOD FOTOS,Exelent job gays

My grandfather was a Londoner whose family were cockney-speaking greengrocers struggling in dire economic conditions. He won a city boxing championship before he emigrated. I wonder what he would make of these spectacular photos. Or of the city London has become. How little he would recognize.

wow!!! that is awesome!!!! thanks for the pictures nieves!!
xxx

It is amazing, the photos make you wish you could see it with your own eyes. London is truly a magnificent city!!

As a trained photojournalist, I must say this is the best of photography I have seen. London is beautiful but Jason added more beauty via his chosen angles and professional touches.

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Have been in London several times being in the music industry,..but never have
seen such beauty from these wonderful pictures taken from the air...and marvelous photography. Just Great !
We are in Nashville, TN USA

Haven't seen London since I was there during WWII with the Cdn army-can't believe how it has developed and changed!! These are wonderful photos, making me hope I can return again some day!!

I am in Melbourne Australia ,London as it all ,truly magic.

London, you Rock! I am very impressed......

I'm an American and have always wanted to go to London, or possibly live there. These pictures just reaffirm that so much more. Thanks for such great pictures.

LONDON WELLDON

Hye to all.London i love u,beautiful pictures,beautiful places.
there is a person in london to whom i l very much,due to him i got intersed in london pictures.i m from pakistan but London is in my mind every time.

Truly stunning! My town. Born there within the sound of Bow Bells. Lived and worked there for about 50 years including many as a licensed black cabbie. My last home was pic 14, Isle of Dogs, first building to the right of the lighted pier in the foreground. Retired to the country now, but my heart is in London as are many friends, especially G.

Husband Rob will be pleased to see Chelsea Football ground in this lot of photos.
Every bit as great as the last lot.

Am impressed. Will forward to my best friend in Twickenham in the U.K.

It's worth viewing...You can see city/town planning at its best. I am in love with the photos and the scenery is fantastic...

Fantastic quality photo's. Well done. It would have been great to have captured the fantastic fire work display over the Thames that saw the New Year in for 2009. How about 2010?
Our night sky can also put on fantastic display if only we could see our stars and planets through the vail of light polution from our towns and cities!!!!

Wow!! The O2 looks like a jellyfish from above!! Wonderful photos, from a wonderful viewpoint...can I come with you next time??!! Liz-the -Whiz, Essex.

Awesome and amazing !

As beautiful as I rememebr it those many years ago. How timely these picture are because my granddaughter Ashley Eder will be in London March 7,2009. She will walk the same streets her grandfather, great grandmother, and great, great grandparents walked over the many years. I know she will love England as each and evry one of us has in our lifetime. Ken Patti, an American whose heart is from England, and a Master Mason

Fabulous

O M G ! Has been over 15 years since we were there; much has changed. Simply spectacular and ready to go back again soon. Toured London all the way up to Scotland. Love the people, history and countryside.

Now this is what I call PHOTOGRAPHY. He is there with the highest, and don't you all think our London is lovely ?????

Thank you for wonderful pictures of London, the greatest city in the world. Oh how I miss it - don't live there anymore but wish every day that I did.

Makes me homesick! Peggy, Toronto, Canada

been to london twice and planning to go again fell in love with that city!!!!

London is a brilliant piece of art which combines the old with new structures without damaging each other .

-Yes ,but can they do something about the damp!

Wonderful photos but doesn't it just make you think how much light energy is wasted by cities. How proud Londoners could be if they were to become the world-leaders in saving energy simply by ensuring the light was directed downwards (where it is needed) rather than 50% being wasted going skywards. Quite apart from reduced CO2 emissions (from power stations that needlessly generate this electricity to be wasted) the money saved could be spent on making the city even more beautiful, cleaner and safer. We may be able to financially afford this waste but can we environmentally afford to be so extravagant. These photos are a truly beautiful, magical 'wake-up call' - put a slogon on them and send them to the Mayor of London. Everyone will admire your photos and the respond to the sentiment they so clearly communicate. Well done and thank-you.

In the intro to my , as yet, unpublished book, I mention the few significant highlights I experienced as an aviator. Flying over London and watching it unroll, seemingly endlessly, from altitude was truly a wondrous sight, especially at night. Even in the 50's and 60's. And now, what a treat it would be to follow the same track and see the changes. I am in my late 70's so that will not happen and I thank all concerned who brought these images to all of us. Pity the grinches in the crowd see only kwh and not man's beautiful works.

A Maz ING..... and everywhere looks so CLEAN.....!!!

I had been in London in 2002 and it's impossible for me to forget this wonderfull city. It is always fantastic.

You deserve more than appreciation for these images... Lovely and i can see the hard work put into each photos and simply superb

Simply stunning!! Looks as though London has had a Spring clean?

Thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures amazing

wow !! it's so beautiful !!

i WAS BORN AND RAISED IN GREAT BRITAIN AND I WILL BE THERE IN 4 WEEKS TIME FOR A HOLIDAY I THINK THESE PICTURES ARE WONDERFUL , AND THANKYOU FOR SHAREING .I NOW MAKE MY HOME IN CANADA

Lived in Australia for thirty five years now but born in London ... worked in Fenchurch Street and travelled Tower Bridge to work ....family are all Londeners but I haven't felt homesick ever ... until today .... looking at your photos I had a sense of belonging and strangely teary!!

Ex Londoner now living in Mexico...Just amazing photography..my beautiful London.
Thank you so much for sharing these photographs. Spectacular views of this
wonderful City.

Great photgraphy! London is a beautiful modern city, I wish to wish some day.

There is no words to tell how amazing is London ,I have been there and Ican tell everybody there is no comparison .. I really a ppreciated that a person like you can do this for an amazing country. I work with an English man I am very proud to have a friend like him , he took me to London and iIwill keep that forever.
Congratulations Jason Hawkes

Beautiful pictures.
Makes me wish I could fly!

very pretty, but still think the best thing to come out of of london is the A1 northwards. dont i hatre citys

STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

honestly I'd LOVE to know the setup for such stunning shots ... is that possible?

AMAZING photos .. once again.

Felt like Peter Pan.....simply stunning........I see how terribly small I am in the big scheme of life......we have a wonderful world...pray and wish that all people could appreciate this ....and think before they "do evil stuff"...more love less ego..

Beautiful photos. Are they HDR images?

my city.......should i give it an acronym, it'll be LLL

Long Live London! come 2012 it'll be long live the Olympics, hope we come 1st place!

I've never been there, but these pics bring it to life, particularly those showing pics of places I've read about.
THANKS A MILLION.

A gorgeous city. I look forward to participating the coming Olympics events.

WOW!! this is amazing!!! just wonderful!

I live in London and believe me - it's not a city of lights. By far I consider it to be the darkest city I ever lived in. These pictures were taken at specific times of day before they switch all those illuminations off. But they look great, I wish London was like this in reality.

Absolutely beautiful photos

Amazing imagery, truly breathtaking.

how can i send my picture there?

Fabulous....

With a daughter working in London and living in Battersea, these photos give my British wife and this ole Yankee a feeling of being closer to her. Makes us want to
visit more than once a year to this incredible city of all cities.

.I have been a Brit expat living in Peru for many years. The wonderful pictures of London by night are incredible and came as a shot in the arm !

Alan Smith....Lima Peru

Stunning! I just love this capital city most of all.Light pollution???????

Fabulous pictures! Gives me the "wander lust."

Great work Jason - I'm guessing you've done sort of High Dynamic Range treatment, or have photoshopped together different exposures of the same shot?

The photographer has done a marvelous job,so beautiful to watch every time we see it !!!

great pictures. The 'Gherkin' though is often reffered to by Londoners as something else ! Something a woman would use to pleasure herself !But great photoes.

i love london, and these pictures make it look glamourous. the best one is of stamford bridge. home to the mighty blues. CHELSEA. c'mon you blues......

A beautiful night worth the "1001 nights" in London. A great idea from a genious photograph

I have been an expat living in Peru for many years,these wonderful picturesw gave me a shot in the arm,absolutely delightful to behold.

They're breathtaking, I could look at those for hours :)

they are cheating by taking the pictures at night time when it's pretty and not in the day when it looks like grey

These pictures are truly phenomenal !!!!!!!!!!
We honestly do live in an amazing city and it is always easy to take it or granted. Often when I drive across the bridges at night I see the way London is lit up on the horizon.

Well done more of these please.

Regards
Londoner

True photographic art.
The photo's portray what makes our London so special and worth preserving.

My God! Absolutely gorgeous! I just love London. I'll be back for sure because that city charmed me for life. I feel like getting on the next plain just to wonder on the London streets. Good job, Mr. Jason Hawkes!

Anyone that can make Shepards Bush look good is not to be ignored

Thank you for such wonderful pics, they are truly great. I was born in London in
1936 and stayed there throughout the war. The state of poor old London after
the German bombs thad taken their toll was tragic, but to see it today in your pics goes to show how lucky we are to be born British, Once a Londoner, always a Londoner it never goes away.
Thank you

As a Yorkshire man , now living in Adelaide ,since 1970 and retired
,i went to London on a shool trip from Hull Yorkshire in 1937 ,then when we flew
from Heathrow to Australia theonly visit s , these photos are well FANTASTIC..
WHAT ELSE CAN ONE SAY?.

unbelievable!! stunning!
I'm absolutely speechless !

I have just seen shanghai photos and i was impressed after seeing LONDON I am double impressed

Beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing. All very spectacular; my favourite is Chelsea Football Ground. Memories of my father - he always rooted for Chelsea and never missed a game on a Saturday afternoon. Ex Londoner, now living in British Columbia.

london is so beautiful ^^

These pictures do not show what a filthy dump London is these days full of low lives and scroungers on benefits and illegals.
Alan ,Brisbane.

AMAZING

I tell you guys I haven't had a chance to see such as amazing pictures
with a beautiful scenes with the fascinating background.

ENJOYED VIEWING SO MUCH, LIKE A PRISTINE,CLINICAL, FUTURISTIC UNIVERSE, SO MUCH MORE PLEASANT WITHOUT,TRAFFIC, ROADWORKS, PEOPLE...I SHALL CONTINUE LANGUISHING IN THAT BUBBLE FOR SOMETIME, PERCHANCE TO DREAM...AN OLD COCKNEY REBEL...DO I LOVE THEE LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. SUZY

speechless

These are beautiful! Had no idea London was so huuuuuuuuge. I'm from the U.S. and have a great, great uncle or great, great something buried in the Abby so this it is wonderful to see just where that is!

Magnificent. A favorite place in the world...

I wish more Brits could see what a wonderful place London really is. I was fortunate to fly in at dusk one day and the pilot suggested we look out of the window. It was awesome.
Fabulous photography which need to be put in a book and sold in the UK.

Awesome pictures. My husband, daughter and I were there in June/july of 07. We toured up to Edinbourough down to Brighton Beach and over to Wales....Breath taking. I am an American but those pictures make me homesick to go again.

it's a pity that it looks more gorgeous from above than below: I have witnessed the cardboard box inhabitants of Blackfriars Bridge of the 80s during Thatcher's regime of terror: and now? J'ai aucune idee! Probably the same. Liza of Collingham

looks like it's on fire, bright orange and yellow and a touch of blue....

I NEVER SAW LONDON IN REALITY, BUT IT'S AMAZING.
I'M AN ROUMANIAN MAN ANA I LIKE G.B.

I NEVER SAW LONDON IN REALITY, BUT IT'S AMAZING.
I'M AN ROUMANIAN MAN ANA I LIKE G.B.
NU AM VAZUT NICI O DATA LONDRA IN REALITATE, DAR ESTE UIMITOARE,
SUNT DIN ROMANIA SI IMI PLACE G.B.

Absolutely amazing! These views confirm the awe one feels even at ground level. Magnificent!!

My husband was born and brought up in the isle of dogs, in the 30,s40,s50, and 60,s.
Wow how it has all changed,
Me I am a livepudlian.

SO VERY BEAUTIFUL AND THANKFUL FOR FRIENDS THAT SENT IT TO ME TO ENJOY THESE WONDERFUL SIGHTS.I WILL SEND IT ALSO TO OTHERS THAT THEY TOO MAY ENJOY THE WONDERS OF LONDON

Absolutely fabulous, beautiful photos......don't know w hat else to say...

Where are all the agreements or otherwise with my comments of the 10th March?
It used to be a nice place but now it's the pits.
It may look OK from the air but.

My dad was a Londoner and tramped the streets of Lambeth and Wandsworth Districts as a lad - he came to Australia aged 14 on his own as a crew member of the SS Jervis Bay - later sunk in world war 2
Thanks for such beaut photos - they help me to imagine something of the area that he lived in

WOW what a big change in the Beautiful city since I was last there in 1946 not as many lights back then as we had fly over London at night in 1946 and as Churchill once said WE MAY BE DOWN BUT WE WILL NEVER BE OUT in a speach he made to the combined US and UK troops at Bushy Park RAF and USAAC (USAF) Combined Headquartes BEAUTIFUL PICTURES and well put togeather, THANK YOU for the memories of a new London

Too bad this is not on my 42" Television Screen, it would
just be awesome to look at. Just beautiful.
I was supposed to go to London in 1976, unfortunately
I was unable to... Thank you Karen.

The word amazing can't describe the wonders of London!
The best city in the world!! It should be compulsory to visit London at least once in life! Great job!!

JUST BRILLIANT. LOVELY TO SEE THE POSITIVE THINGS OF LONDON. WELL DONE.

I came on holiday to london for christmas and nye last december i fell in love with this city.Very beautiful and i really enjoyed my holiday.Looking forward to come again.Maybe next August.

LONDON-- AT ITS LOVELIEST -PLEASE IGNORE THE WHINGERS AND KEEP LOOKING GREAT -- I AM VERY PROUDLY FORWARDING THESE PICTURES TO EVERY E-MAIL ADDRESS I CAN ..

superb

thanks gor the photographor. I really enjoy the fantastic photos!

I am a great British mystery fan but have never been to England. Now I feel as if I have seen London - next best thing. Just gorgeous. I am gobsmacked!

Fabulous - I've lived on the other side of the world in Wellington New Zealand for 28 years but London will always be in my soul...

The only time i visited London was way back in 1982 as a little 12yr old girl.Though i stayed there only for 3 days i have very fond memories of visiting Madame Tussauds,Oxford Street n not to forget sittin in the black cab.Goin by these pics I do notice that the city has really changed since my last visit!But i can feel the pulse of the city remainin the same,Vibrant ie.After seein these pics id really love to go back for a nice holiday n also take my kids along.Hope that happens soon!Till then as the sayin goes"Long live the Queen" i say Long live London!

Your truly a Great Photographer! London looks simply beautiful, I can't wait to go see it next month!!! I am from California.

Definitely time for a third visit to this beautiful city

Hi,I was in London in November and saw many of these sights from the Big Eye. But WOW these are just amazing,what an eye you have. I now live on the USA and have for 39 years,but oh how I miss my London,you can take the girl out of it but can not take it out of the girl,Thanks so much Frances,Connecticut,USA

If Global Warming was a reality then I thank London for the wonderful use of electricity, truly brilliant, as we all need to maximise CO2 if it causes warming so as to combat the freezing weather that will often occur during the remainder of the 27 year Cold/Wet that we moved into 3 years ago. Unfortunately the idea that coal burning etc leads to elevated temperatures re CO2 production and hence heats the earths atmosphere is simply a fraudulent idea emanating from the US in the late 1980's to give credence to Carbon Trading.

lovely London photos.

there is no more living truth than what has been captured in the silence of a click on this camera
The pictures are filled with awe,music,soul,love and mystique. They are a culmination of hundreds of years of civilization, monarchies, reformations, wars, human suffering ,life and death.
I love to feel the beauty of what has been captured in the flow of energy throughout the photograph journal.
Congratulations and thank you for this gift .

there is no more living truth than what has been captured in the silence of a click on this camera
The pictures are filled with awe,music,soul,love and mystique. They are a culmination of hundreds of years of civilization, monarchies, reformations, wars, human suffering ,life and death.
I love to feel the beauty of what has been captured in the flow of energy throughout the photograph journal.
Congratulations and thank you for this gift .

I left London a long time ago. I sometimes wish - like now - to be living there gain. I can even estimate where I used to live. Quite amazing and very impressive.

Congratulations.