Soaring Over Glaciers, Ice Fields and Trees

You could call it a win-win situation. Back in 2004, Eamon Mac Mahon took up aerial photography when his best friend became a bush pilot in northwestern Canada.

"Each autumn, when his busy season was finished, we traveled throughout the northwest in a very small plane, and lived in the wilderness for around two months, until winter arrived," he tells us. "The plane could run on car gas, it cost about $20 an hour for fuel, and we were able to land in many different kinds of terrain. Usually we had some work lined up, which covered our expenses, and a project that I was interested in. I was able to create a body of work and my friend gained hundreds of flying hours which eventually led him to a better flying job."