AERIAL Views PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A ZEPPELIN

The zeppelin floats silently above the site to be photographed. In search of a way to overcome the limits of conventional aerial photography, we revived an old idea. This American patent combines the concept of the zeppelin with its stable flying characteristics with modern media technology. Photographs from our special dirigible clearly document urban construction and landscape contexts, whether streets and soccer fields or the course of rivers and alluvial meadows. Due to the low altitude, these pictures provide a completely new glimpse of facades, roofs, and interlocking courtyards. The zeppelin photographs unite the advantages of the aerial photograph with those of classical photography. They combine spatial comprehensibility with truth to detail. Along with our work with the zeppelin, we also use airplanes and helicopters. But for these, the law stipulates a minimum altitude, making it harder to photograph details. Conventional aerial photography also involves problems of haziness, vibrations, and the speed of flight. When helicopters or planes are booked, default payments are unavoidable when the weather is poor. With the zeppelin, we charge only for successful photo shoots.

Shrubland Park, England
Chateau de Chantilly, France
Chateau de Chantilly, France
Hippodrom of Chantilly, France
Wista grounds in Adlershof
Wista grounds in Adlershof
Schloßplatz Berlin, "Öffentlicher Waschsalon"
(public laundromat)
Tempelhof Airport
Zeppelin photo with computer simulation at Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt
Charité Hospital photographed from a height of ca. 60m