Overview For 100 years SEGRO has been creating space that enables extraordinary things to happen. From modern big box warehouses to urban warehousing, SEGRO provides high-quality buildings that allow their customers to thrive. SEGRO tasked High Level Photography with creating aerial photography that did the scale and quality of their sites justice.   The Challenge […]

Drones are now standard kit for most photographers but their use on commercial assignments are heavily regulated especially in tight urban environments.test We have been flying drones since the outset and our experienced drone team are fully qualified with relevant permissions and, of course, insurance cover. We fly planes, helicopters, drones and our vans are […]

Celebrating 11 years of being under the ownership of Ian Leslie, we look back at our humble beginnings and see how we’ve evolved with an ever-competitive industry.   When High Level Photography was established in 1985 by founder Keith Hallam, it ran successfully specialising in Highway CCTV surveys and commercial property photography. When Keith decided […]

Despite a forecast of rolling fog blanketing most of the UK, Paul Wells the High Level pilot had planned this aerial assignment with perfect precision and was under no illusion that it would be anything other than perfect at each of our destinations. With photographer Bryony Bishop alongside, ‘Oscar Bravo’, the High Level plane confidently took […]

Finally we head inland to our next site which is an industrial estate in Gateshead where a cloud shadow over our target checked our progress as we waited for it to clear. Once complete we pinned our ears back for another long leg, this time heading west to Preston, Lancashire. Our track took us over […]

Tyres kicked, pre-flight checks complete, fuel tanks full, bladders empty, tower clearance received and away we go… Climbing into the Surrey skies for an aerial photography mission that will take us in a big circuit around much of England. It is one of those rare weather days in the UK where the forecasts are pretty […]

The History of the Library Since the launch of our aerial photography service in 2012, we realised the need for creating a searchable database of aerial imagery. As our Director has a keen interest in both photography and aviation, High Level made the move to Fairoaks Airport in 2008. After operating in a rented Cessna […]

Consultation Atkins, one of the world’s most respected Design, Engineering and Project Management Consultancies, recently commissioned High Level Photography to come up with a photographic solution for elevated views of several M25 motorway intersections. The purpose was to illustrate them within the context of their surroundings, show the existing road layout and the surrounding lands […]

Hot take-off As the mercury in our thermometers records temperatures soaring over 30 degrees, the multi-skilled photographers at High Level are working hard to ensure the events of this summer are captured and shared.   Earlier this week, the aerial photography team took a helicopter flight over Hampton Court Palace – where they witnessed the […]

It was not by chance that the High Level Photography team was flying above Heathrow this morning.  We were there to witness and photograph the delivery of British Airways’ new super-jet, the Airbus A380.   Save for a another helicopter in the distance, we were the only chopper with authority to be in this highly […]