'LAS VEGAS AT NIGHT' BY JASON HAWKES

FOR THE FIRST TIME, INCREDIBLY DETAILED PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE STUNNING GLITZ OF LAS VEGAS, USING NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS BEEN RECENTLY DEVELOPED IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS, HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TOGETHER IN A BOOK ENTITLED 'LAS VEGAS AT NIGHT'. THE AMAZING SERIES WAS TAKEN BY RENOWNED AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHER JASON HAWKES, FROM HENLY-ON-THAMES, OXFORDSHIRE, IN MARCH. IN THE PAST HAWKES HAS SHOT FAMOUS DAY-TIME PICTURES OF LONDON, AND OTHER MAJOR CITIES AROUND THE WORLD. PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ONLY RECENTLY BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE DETAILED AERIAL IMAGES AFTER DARK. USING A STATE-OF-THE-ART GYROSCOPIC MOUNT, PROFESSIONALS LIKE HAWKES ARE NOW ABLE TO SHOOT ANY LOCATION FROM A CIRCLING HELICOPTER AT NIGHT AND GET DAZZLING RESULTS. HAWKES SAID: "PREVIOUSLY WHILE YOU COULD DO THIS KIND OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DAY, IT WAS TOO DIFFICULT AT NIGHT BECAUSE OF THE BACKGROUND 'NOISE' YOU COULD GET IN THE IMAGES. WITH LITTLE LIGHT YOU HAD TO USE CAMERA SETTINGS WITH VERY HIGH FILM SPEED WHICH CREATED NOISE. IT MADE THE IMAGES GRAINY AND PRETTY UGLY." ADVANCES IN CUTTING-EDGE PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT MEAN THAT AERIAL SPECIALISTS LIKE HAWKES CAN NOW GET CRISTAL CLEAR SHOT THAT SHOW WORLD LANDMARKS AS THEY TRULY APPEAR. THE GYROSCOPIC MOUNT IS ESSENTIALLY A TRIPOD WITH SIX SETS OF SPINNING GYROS, CONTAINED INSIDE THREE EGG-SHAPED CASES, THAT ROTATE EXTREMELY QUICKLY. THEIR MOVEMENT CANCELS OUT THE WOBBLES AND SHAKES CAUSED BY THE HELICOPTER BLADES. USING THE NE GEAR HAWKES WAS ABLE TO HEAVILY REDUCE THE FILM SPEED, PRODUCING STUNNING VIVID NEON-LIT IMAGES OF THE MOST FAMOUS ENTERTAINMENT CITY IN THE WORLD. HAWKES' LATEST WORKS SHOW MANY OF THE DESERT CITY'S MOST FAMOUS AND ICONIC CASINO LANDMARKS INCLUDING THE EIFFEL TOWER OF THE PARIS LAS VEGAS, THE GIANT PYRAMID OF LUXOR AND THE FAMED ERUPTING VOLCANO AT THE MIRAGE.