The
balloon project was inspired by Google Earth after the first
time I saw our place on it. It was fantastic - a seemingly
intrusive birds-eye view of anything looking up to the sky.
One major flaw (at the time) was a generally poor resolution,
and this lack of detail just wasn't good enough for me. Thus
the balloon project was born.
Almost
immediately, a couple of things popped into the mind: Balloon,
lift, camera. I mean, wouldn't it seem like a stupidly simple
method? An aerial camera perhaps? How feasible was this anyway?
Eventually,
I decided on using a remote controlled film camera which was
suspended from a helium filled weather balloon, which was
in turn secured to the ground by a length of string. This
meant that I could at least get the camera back down again...
