Popular Photography - February 2015 USA
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ADD COLOR TO YOUR ARCHITECTURE AND PRODUCT SHOTS<br />
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CREATIVE THINKING<br />
FLYING HIGH<br />
SCOTT NOBLES<br />
This photo illustrator<br />
steps back in time<br />
to imagine the future<br />
IN A FEW YEARS, we’ll all have<br />
wing suits and scenes like this<br />
will be as common as cars<br />
lined up in traffic jams. But<br />
until then, our romance with<br />
individual flight will continue<br />
to inspire land-bound aviators<br />
such as illustrator and portrait<br />
photographer Scott Nobles. “I’m<br />
fascinated with flying, but I don’t<br />
have a pilot’s license or anything,”<br />
he admits. “Still, I wanted to create<br />
a photo story based on human<br />
flight. It’s been done before but I<br />
wanted to tackle it myself.”<br />
The photographer formerly<br />
based in New York City (he’s<br />
since gone to Boston) imagined<br />
For more of<br />
the photographer’s<br />
Flying Dream<br />
series, visit<br />
scottnobles<br />
.com.<br />
a series telling the story of a guy<br />
who tinkers around to create<br />
his own flying contraption,<br />
eventually soaring over downtown<br />
Manhattan. It was a personal<br />
project that he hoped would<br />
attract clients.<br />
Originally, the illustrations were<br />
to be in color, but when he hit on<br />
the idea of using historic blackand-white<br />
aerial archival photos<br />
POPPHOTO.COM<br />
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