From the air: Drones open up a new perspective on a proud region
Drones have transformed the way we are able to bring you images.
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Taking aerial images used to involve the difficulty and expense of hiring a helicopter, planning out a route and then finding a willing volunteer to hang out of an open door to take pictures.
Today our qualified photographers have a licence to fly drones with high definition cameras attached, offering pin-sharp images.
That means we can easily get a new perspective on a breaking news story or landmark of particular interest in our region.
Today we feature some of those images in our From the Air special.
They are a collection of images taken by our chief photographer Tim Thursfield and senior photographer Tim Sturgess.
Some reflect events from the recent past, others are of landmarks or places of interest taken as we move into spring. Take a look and see what you can recognise.
The River Severn at Bridgnorth Aggborough Stadium, home of Kidderminster Harriers FC Bishop's Castle Dudley Metro track on Castle Hill Chasewater, BrownhillsBridgnorth Cliff RailwayMarket Drayton town centre Market Drayton town centre The clean-up operation after a huge fire off Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton Old Hill Fort, Oswestry. There are plans to build houses near the site.The McArthurGlen Designer Outlet West Midlands at CannockMill Green Roundabout, Cannock..Mill Green nature reserve, Cannock AFC Telford United's New Bucks Head stadium Sandwell Valley Park FarmTelford College of Arts and TechnologyNew 200-house development of Hall Green Green Road, Stone Cross, West Bromwich The M5 as it meets the M6 at Junction 8The Royal Hospital housing development site in WolverhamptonThe HS2 project off Capper Lane, Lichfield New housing development off Husum Way, KidderminsterThe i54 site on the outskirts of Wolverhampton Ludlow Castle Work taking place to improve Junction 10 of the M6 at WalsallKeys Park, home of Hednesford Town FC, and the new housing estate around the groundLudlow Castle A steam train crosses the Victoria Bridge on the Severn Valley Railway Looking down over the container yard at Pentalver Cannock LtdThe site of the former Rugeley Power Station The River Severn near Hampton Loade Shrewsbury town centreShrewsbury town centreThe German War Cemetery on Cannock Chase in the snowSolar farm at Wheat Leasows, TelfordStafford Soccer CentreThe Stiperstones in ShropshireTettenhall village, with Tettenhall pool area in the foregroundLake Vyrnwy Walsall ArboretumRushall ChurchThe big wheel at the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet West Midlands in CannockWolverhampton city centreThe former Darlaston football ground, which is to become an urban woodland Woore Fruit Farm
