Idaho Airships, Inc.

Here’s a “matched set” of aerial photographs (some call them “photos!”) taken in 2007 of the downtown Boise area.

We’ve done a great deal of aerial, architectural, construction, engineering, Eminent Domain and Commercial Real Estate photography in other metropolitan areas (Dallas, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, et. al.) but it’s always nice to come home to beautiful Boise.

Oblique view northeast along Capitol Blvd./9th St.

Orthographic (”vertical”) view of downtown Boise. North is to the top of the image.

I’ve lived in some of the areas we service regularly (Salt Lake City, Tucson/Phoenix), so it’s not simply a matter of knowing the Treasure Valley extremely well. We enjoy an enviable comfort level at home because of the relatively relaxed development density and airspace complexity in Idaho.

Idaho Airships, Inc. has been in business over a decade now, and we’ve produced some half-million aerial and other photographs in the Boise area (Meridian, Eagle, Nampa, Caldwell) alone-it’s very exciting to review images that are only a few years old and see the improvements in infrastructure, retail centers, and parks…and very difficult not to feel some ownership in the various projects we’ve been honored to be a part of.

Part of the plan for 2008 is to enter the “art” market, which we’ve really not engaged in the past. With our latest round of cameras, computers, and printers, our production capacity has grown “through the roof” and it would be silly to not stretch our creative legs a bit. Some of this does have to do with our animation capabilities, which until now have been reserved for persuasive applications (litigation, Commercial Real Estate, and public relations).

It’s also time to roll our our time lapse work-we have a completely automated, remote system with redundant generators being brought to bear on a variety of subjects. Our time lapse output is in HD and higher resolution (think “IMAX”)-a problem since the disk storage and processing power requirements for post production work is staggering. Special lensing acquired during the last year will make things a bit more than just “interesting.”

We’re even developing very warm relationships with other aerial and ground-based photographers in our service areas. We’ve got some fantastic friends in the business-after all, they enjoy the same things we do-and we’ve developed a reputation for “getting along with the other kids.”

Idaho Airships, Inc. and Aerial Photographics, LLC (”sister” companies) wish everyone a very successful and happy 2008!

L