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Love London?

If you do, you’ll love it even more when you see it from above, in the photographs taken by architect, photographer, and pilot Jeffrey Milstein for his newest book, “London from the Air,” published by Rizzoli.

How does Milstein get these incredible images? He shoots straight down, with the best and newest high-resolution cameras while leaning out of helicopters. And with special permission to bypass the strict laws that usually forbid aerial photography of the capital city,

In the book’s foreword, Sir Norman Foster writes, “For the visual reader, this book can delight at a purely aesthetic level and need go no further. But discerning viewers can also read much more into the photographs as they reveal the infrastructure of public spaces, parks, avenues of trees, streets, arteries of road and railways, and airport terminals where the highways in the sky finally come down to earth.”

Here are some more images from the book.

Above: Hyde’s Park Winter Wonderland, which takes place each year from November to January.

All photos courtesy Jeffrey Milstein from the book, “London From the Air,” Rizzoli

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