Africa from the air

Acclaimed landscape photographer Michael Poliza (nice site boys) set off this week on his epic Heli-Africa expedition, which will see him travelling from Hamburg (his home town), to Cape Town (city of residence), by helicopter - photographing the earth from the air as he goes. Via travel.iafrica.com:

From Germany, the low-level flight path takes in Italy and the Mediterranean Sea via Crete, before crossing Africa via Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia before ending in South Africa towards the end of October.

Travelling together with friend Stefan Breuer, their objective is to capture the beauty of Africa from a bird's-eye view, and to share their eight-week adventure with readers around the world.

You might remember that I linked to Poliza's work before, after realising I'd missed out on the Starship Millennium Voyage - a 1000 day educational circumnavigation around our planet which ended in 2001.

This time he's only a week into the expedition - and you can follow their progress via his Heli-Afrika 2006 Flickr set, and read about their first few days at travel.iafrica.com. I'm hope they're going to update that page regularly because I haven't found a written journal for the trip yet, although his photography does speak for itself most of the time.

UPDATE: Check out Michael's 'Namibia Slideshow' presentation off the downloads page on his website. It's a 16mb file, but trust me, you've never seen anything like it.

UPDATE [10/10]: Heli-Africa website is live, I've just discovered - complete with daily diary, route map and a full high-resolution photo gallery! Sweet.