Skycam Australia provides custom and stock aerial photography of Australia. We are based in Sydney NSW and operating throughout New South Wales with associates in Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, ACT and around the world. Get free on-line aerial oblique and vertical views, panoramas or a desktop wallpaper each month covering Australian icons of the Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge to country towns, rivers, beaches, mountains, The Bush and The Outback. Skycam On Canvas is our stock image or your custom image printed on canvas in rich colour just like an oil painting and stretched and framed for your home or office wall.
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ABOUT SKYCAM

Roger Sherack learned to fly a De Havilland DHC-1 "Chipmunk" at Bankstown Airport in the 1960's while still at school and was flying a plane solo before he was old enough to drive a car solo.

He took his first aerial photograph of Pennant Hills NSW in 1964 so he's been at it for quite a while.


DHC-1 Chipmunk at Bankstown and Pennant Hills in 1964

He was an engineering survey draftsman who applied his knowledge of aviation and photography to develop a dedicated aerial photography service to the engineering and architectural industries which helped to remove the high costs and mystery from the methods of complicated cost formulae in use at that time. During the 12 years of using the model plane system, he also built large models for low level movie footage for special effects studios in the movie and advertising industries.


Fitting of 35mm cine movie camera, final construction and maiden flight of the "FX" movie plane

Skycam has been featured on national television programs over the years such as:

  • "Burke's Backyard" in 1992
  • "Our House" in 1994
  • "The Games" in 1999

A quantum leap was made in 1996 when the model plane system was retired in favour of full sized aircraft with medium format cameras and the use of the new "information super-highway" that was to become the Internet.

This web site was loaded up to the Internet in July 1996 to showcase some stock images on Skycam's new "cyberspace photo gallery" when dial-up was king and no-one had ever heard of Spam.

Roger was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald about his new web site back in 1997.

Today, Skycam is a family business owning it's own Cessna 172 aeroplane which is hangared at Bankstown Airport in NSW but work takes them to many interesting places around Australia.


Murwillumbah New South Wales and Fraser Island Queensland


An outback dawn at Maree South Australia and mixing with the jets at Ayers Rock Airport in the Northern Territory


Parked outside the famous Birdsville Pub in Queensland


Cocktail hour "Outback Style" at the William Creek Pub in South Australia

Skycam uses leading edge professional digital cameras allowing quick turn-arounds and low cost solutions for it's 500+ clients from Federal, State and Local Government departments, construction giants to commercial banks, investors, developers, real estate agents to wetland experts, farmers and even private home owners.

Skycam also has a vast network family of fellow aerial photographers from around the world so if you are looking for a Skyline of New York, Paris, London, Toronto, Auckland, or Singapore, chances are we have an associate there.


Skycam visits associates in other parts of the world to learn new ideas like these views of Mt St Helens and Mt Hood in Washington State USA.

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SKYCAM AUSTRALIA On-line since 1996