'I don't think I've seen a summer when the grass in the parks is literally yellow like this.'
As London bakes in another heatwave amid an official drought, we speak to a photographer who frequently rises above the noise and captures the city from another perspective.
Jason Hawkes has more than 30 years' experience of shooting from the sky, typically capturing aerial photographs once or twice a week. "I don't think I've seen a summer when the grass in the parks is literally yellow like this, not that I can remember," he said."It's pretty amazing how green the trees are - that's equally surprising to me bearing in mind how hot it has been and how little rain there's been.""If you look across a park from a distance they still look very green.
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