Kent Coast from the Air

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At 178 miles (286 kilometres) Kent has one of thelongest and most varied coastlines in England. Hereare to be found some of the finest heritage sites inthe country, together with exceptional habitat ofinternational importance for wildlife.The landscapesinclude towering cliffs, lonely marshlands, popularholiday towns, international ports and tiny harbours.Kent also has the busiest passenger ferry port inNorthern Europe and the largest installed offshorewind farm in the UK.Almost one third of the people of Kent live incoastal districts. For some the sea is merely thebackdrop to their lives but a significant numbermake their living from its ports and harbours,industries, fishing grounds, tourist towns andbeaches. Each will find the aerial photographs inthis book equally fascinating.The principal attraction of aerial photographs is thatthey are literally a bird's-eye view, allowing us tolook down on the landscape from a perspective thatwe never normally see. Such pictures reveal to usthings that are normally hidden from view, andoften surprise us when we find that what we hadimagined the layout of the land to be is in realityquite different.The best practitioners of this genre of photography,like Jason Hawkes, strive to capture an aesthetic inthe images they take, and these pictures, sometimesquite abstract in appearance, are often strikinglybeautiful in their own right