Man-Made, From Above

Although I love to photograph Vermont’s bucolic landscape with a drone, I equally like to aim my aerial camera at man-made structures below. Winter shadows make geometric patterns between solar panels, while pale winter sun highlights the doubled shape of a yellow playground structure. Monkey bars! From above, we see the patched cracks in a parking lot or the skid marks of a daredevil driver. Plants grow wild through the frame of an abandoned greenhouse, while a swimming pool covered in snow waits for summer. As new snow falls, it creates a clean painter’s canvas on which mundane shadows fall, creating fresh perspectives and new mysteries. Soaring above a snowy scene provides a brief sense of flight and discovery above Vermont’s landscape, bucolic and industrial.

Rochester, Vermont

Granville, Vermont

Addison, Vermont

Middlebury, Vermont

North Hero, Vermont

Middlebury, Vermont

Monkton, Vermont

Rutland, Vermont

Cornwall, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Ferrisburgh, Vermont

Middlebury, Vermont

Middlebury, Vermont

Graniteville, Vermont

Middlebury, Vermont

Limestone Quarry, Middlebury, Vermont

Bethel, Vermont

Middlebury, Vermont

Leicester, Vermont