The photographers of Earthflight, a companion book of the BBC series of the same name, take the concept of the bird's eye view very very seriously. If you've ever wanted to see how the crow flies, literally, Earthflight producer John Downer can show you. Mr. Downer pioneered several techniques for filming and photographing birds, including imprinting (raising birds from the moment of hatching so they follow the caretaker as a parent) an entire flock of birds, and then flying in a hang glider in formation with the flock. In a recent interview, John Downer said about flying with an imprinted flock:

"As you can imagine, it’s very labour intensive. I took them over some of the cities of Europe. I took them over Venice. We flew over Edinburgh. We flew over London. The microlite is the apex of the classic v-shaped formation. They are flying so close you could literally reach out and touch them. You can’t get closer to a bird than being up in the air with it, flying wing tip to wing tip. I wanted to translate that for audiences in Earthflight so they got that sensation"