UK Aerial photography

Welcome to one of the worlds largest on-line collections of oblique  aerial photographs of the UK.

New Gallery for 2018 : After more than a decade of service my old gallery has become somewhat wobbly and so all the images have been uploaded to a new gallery. It will take some time to update all the image descriptions. I am also upgrading the images to larger sizes suitable for modern screens. My aerial photographs of Wales and Scotland are now finally ordered by county.  The image library contains tens of  thousands of aerial photographs of  England Scotland and Wales , UK .   Webb Aviation  is run by  Jonathan C.K.Webb BA(Hons)DipM ARPS

Click here to visit the new gallery.

Although based in the UK I also work abroad, particularly in Germany. All the aerial photographs in the picture library are free to view as full page images and available to purchase as prints or for licence as high resolution digital files. I am currently shooting a huge  number of  aerial photographs every year so there are many more photographs in stock than on-line so it is always worth emailing a special request. With 2 million visitors per year  my gallery  is one of the biggest and  most popular galleries  in the world for free to view on-line oblique aerial photographs of the UK.

May 2008, The Royal Photographic Society have awarded me the distinction of Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. This is a great honor and is a little unusual in that it is based purely on my aerial photographic work and also unusual that I have gained the distinction of Associate without first having gained the distinction of Licentiate.

Technological revolution: I always use the latest and best cameras  In   2008   I bought the  Canon 1DS Mk III, Kenlabs KS-8 Gyro stabilizer coupled with some pretty special lenses. With them I can  easily read many car numbers from 1500 feet with the long lens photographs and can photograph in complete darkness with my ultra fast lenses. From 2013 I made further improvements with the new Canon 5dIII with even more detail and from Summer 2015 we have bene using the new 50MP Canon 5DS .

See some large large samples These samples are very heavily compressed with just a small fraction of the data you get in the supplied images. Business customers can email me for a higher quality sample if required.

Night aerial photographs of Germany including Cologne Cathedral.

North Wales from the Air

Liverpool from the Air

Birmingham from the Air

Stations from the Air

Stockport from Above

Manchester from the air

Second Edition

Leeds from the air

Tyneside from the air

New for 2012: 3 German Language books: Leipzig von oben, Köln von obenand Düsseldorf von oben which were unveiled at the Leipzig Book Fair.

As a specialist in professional aerial photography I can produce a very high resolution image. Click here to see an example of my l aerial photography and here to see another  full resolution sample but this time taken at night. I usually fly from Stapleford Aerodrome in Essex, providing specialist aerial photography in London and the South East, Wellesbourne aerodrome covering the midlands and  Manchester, covering northern England and Edinburgh covering Scotland. I also have one aircraft available in Wales.   All Webb Aviation gallery images are taken by me , Jonathan C.K.Webb BA(Hons)DipM ARPS I am a specialist professional aerial photographer and undertake aerial photography surveys of a variety of subjects including; farms, plant , factories , farmland, schools, businesses, homes, archaeological sites, conservation projects building projects and land for development, providing traditional negative prints or digital images. Images can also be digitally manipulated to show proposed buildings or to tidy up unsightly parts of a property.