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Albania From the Air

Thanks to Llukan for pointing me to the website of Alket Islami.

Alket Islami flies around the sky in one of those flimsy looking contraptions that I now know is a paramotor - a seat attached to an engine hanging from a parachute. While he's up there he sometimes carries a camera.

Recently a book of his photographs was published: Albania From The Air. The images are both spectacular and beautiful and you can see them at his website. I've reproduced a few of them below to give you a taster.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it for sale on Amazon so I'm not sure if it is available outside Albania. In Tirana you can get it in bookshops for 5500 lek.



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Ll.T. said…
Ups, sorry, I had forgotten to send you the pdf version so I'm happy you got the site to work :D
11:24 am
Anonymous said…
thanks man! :)
12:08 pm
Anonymous said…
wow..breathtaking stuff... too bad the guy's name is in all of the pics...lol.
3:03 pm
olli said…
Nick, I think the name is there to stop people using these without permission/acknowledgment.

Anon, you are welcome. Are you Alket?
7:14 pm
Anonymous said…
yeah i know. I just wanted it to put it as background for my desktop...lol...but the name sorta ruins it cause it looks too big in bold letters. Maybe i can photoshop it out or something.
8:01 pm
Anonymous said…
no i'm not alket. just liked the pictures a lot! thanks for bringing interesitng stuff for us. :)
9:27 pm
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7:10 pm
beyondrecall31 said…
I just bought the second volume of Albania From The Air in a charity shop in St. Albans, England. I've been interested in Albania - these pictures are a real eye-opener. It only cost me three pounds - abd the money goes to Oxfam.
4:59 pm
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