Bird views of Malta

Catherine Maubert writes for TMIS about Fabrice H, a French photographer from Brittany, who is in Malta for a week to take photographs of the island’s landscapes and environment for a publication due next year:

The book is going to be called Bird views of Malta and this is why I needed special equipment,” he explains. Indeed, Fabrice H is using a new technology consisting of a helium balloon to shoot the aerial views so that “the photo looks like what a bird would see,” Fabrice says

On Tuesday, Fabrice H went to the blue lagoon in Comino to start shooting his aerial view from there, ‘The result has nothing to do with what I could have achieved from a helicopter because, with the photo balloon, we are lower,” Fabrice insists. The other result is that he and his crew are far from being unnoticed: “We created the day’s animation on the beach! Everyone was coming to ask us what we were doing,” he laughs.

“Every time I come to Malta I like it more” Actually, it isn’t Fabrice’s first visit to Malta. He came last year to work on a photographic book about Malta – the Portfolio île de Malte was published in January 2005 – and has now come back for the future bird views book. “I have been to Malta four times now and the more I come here, the more I like the island; there are so many things to discover here,” he says. The fact that he and his team are always warmly welcomed is also a good reason to come back...

Fabrice sure does not lack ideas and imagination, but for the moment he only hopes he manages to get the 30 pictures of Malta he has planned to photograph before he leaves. He has already decided to come back in April “to take more colourful pictures this time… I could even come here for real holiday once in a while!” he laughs.

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