Came across this guy who has taken a whole series of pretty impressive aerial photographs of London from a helicopter. What makes them more impressive is that for night photography you need a really long exposure, and it's difficult enough to steady a camera for long enough, let alone from a moving helicopter! He uses some kind of tripod with giros or something... In his words: (from Boston.com's 'The Big Picture')"Shooting aerial photography during the daytime had its own difficulties, you are strapped tightly into a harness leaning out of the helicopter, shouting directions through the headsets to the pilot. If shooting in the day can be difficult, night and the lack of light causes its own set of problems, but overcoming them is half the fun and the results can be stunning. I shoot at night using the very latest digital cameras, mounted on either one or two gyro stablazied mounts, depending on the format of the camera and length of lens I'm having to use."
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