00:02I first went to Nanibia back in the early 200s or 2000s and I absolutely fell in love with the
00:08landscape, the red dunes, the shifting dunes, the shapes and the patterns and I've been back about
00:14seven or eight times since then. I'm sort of in a countdown mode trying to go back over the things
00:20that I really enjoyed and the areas I like to see. So I went to Nanibia early in April this
00:26year
00:26with the idea of taking the sand dunes perhaps one last time. Wonderful. Physically, how did you take
00:33the photographs, Barbara? It's from a helicopter. It's with the doors off. It's probably typically
00:40about 2,000 feet above the ground and each flight's probably of about two hours duration.
00:47And are you hanging out the helicopter? How does that work? Well, you're not necessarily hanging
00:51out the helicopter but you certainly have the doors off and you're leaning out as far as you can go
00:56before the pilot tells you that's enough. Okay. And what is it about aerial photography in
01:02particular that appeals and attracts you as compared to other more ground-based work?
01:07I think it's fascinating that you see a totally different perspective of the ground. You see
01:12the landscapes, the shapes that you wouldn't necessarily see from below. It just gives you a
01:18totally different viewpoint and I lean towards abstract photography and aerial work is really a lot about
01:25abstract. You can see the patterns and the shapes and, as you said before, the geometric shapes and forms and
01:31I just love it. How did you get into aerial photography in the first place?
01:37I play around a little bit with photography and then a local photographer called Tony Hewitt introduced
01:44me to aerial photography and the first time I went up I got hooked. And since then I've done probably
01:50about 80 hours in the air. Wow. And what does this win mean for you and for your work?
01:56Sorry, I didn't catch that. What does the win mean for you and for your work as well?
02:01It means confirmation that I'm up there with the world's best. I've worked hard at this. It's not just
02:08something that you take up and you go up in the air and you snap, snap, snap. There's a lot
02:12of work
02:12involved and yeah, I'm quite chuffed that I won it. It's a good, comes at the right time for me.
02:19It makes
02:19me feel happy. It makes me feel that I haven't wasted my time with my passion. That's wonderful. It comes
02:24through in your pictures. Barbara Brown, thank you so much for joining us and congratulations once again.
02:28Barbara Brown, thank you.
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