Coastline UK
Amazing Views from the Air
Photographs by Richard Cooke
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| ‘Cooke has a great eye ... [he has] managed to capture the majesty and variety of a coastline that we often think of as bleak, grey and lifeless’ | | – Metro |
 The great swirls of a turquoise sea and tracts of golden sand are not those of a Mediterranean island but are, in fact, the true form of the shoreline of Britain. Mudflats, dunes and scrubland are the source of strange, exotic hues and patterns when viewed from above. Small harbours yield complex herring-bone arrangements of boats, and busy commercial ports become semi-abstract, multi-coloured assemblages.
Richard Cooke has created this extraordinary sequence of images celebrating shoreline diversity and beauty. To achieve these mesmerizing effects of colour and form, Cooke has chosen – as far as possible – to photograph directly above the chosen subject-areas, creating marvellously composed photographs.
Together they form a truly unique and totally unexpected picture of a coastline that is the equal in variety and drama to any in the world.
Richard Cooke has won many awards for his aerial photography, including a Eurobest in 1999 and a D&AD silver award in 2002.
See Richard Cooke's website
Also of interest:
The Earth from the Air
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500542848 | | ISBN-13 978-0500542842 | | | | 26.0 x 27.0 cm | | Hardback | | 208pp | | 140 illustrations, 140 in colour | | First published 2004 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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