Menorca from the air is a new and different book. This is not only because it is the first one about Menorca published only and exclusively based on pictures taken from the air, but also because it tried to find a different perspective and dimension from the typical aerial landscape photographs we are used to see, although not very frequently.

Another reason that makes it a singular book is because in every photograph it wants to show the patterns, details and landscapes in their most attractive moment for what it was of paramount importance to look for different times so as to sunlight could not reflect the island in the same way. Those moments when the sun was up in the sky made the landscape to look flatter, but on the other hand, ravines could be lighted inside. At dawn or at sunset, the light caressed with all its tenderness the delicate relief of the island. There could be seen, then, all their well-defined relieves with a very special light colour. The pictures taken when the sun was really down can make us think that we had put makeup on the landscape and that it is not our home. The book shows a very unusual vision and at the same time a very beautiful and attractive sight of the island either for Minorcan people or visitors, since we do not know Menorca from the air.

Light has not been the only element to bear in mind when we wanted to look for singularity. If pictures were taken very high in the sky, the photographed land would have been very large and inside every picture we could found countless and really tiny details but that would not attract our attention. So, this is why it was decided and planned to fly as many times possible, low enough in order to get into more known details but that seen from the air would result different. In some cases, the size of the detail becomes really impressive.

As for the photographic content of the book, there is no much to say: pictures talk by themselves. To say it differently, although it sounds a topic, we should learn to listen to photographs thanks to this book; yes, because they are absolutely sincere about Menorca.

As you look at the book you will realize that every time you turn a page, there is a message that reminds you of something: interesting things, cheerful things, sad things, curious things; a message that talks about history and pre-history; about human beings, wars, conquests and re-conquests; about nature, environment, and countryside. All in all, it talks about nature and us. When you finish it, you will realize that photographs can say many things we already knew but that now seem more real than before, seen from the air.

Think about what you hold in your hands. Voices of the present that come from the sky and that, in some years time, will surely not have the same echo, because we know that the human trace leaves an eroded furrow that damages Menorca and that tents to make a fossil of it more than to regenerate it. Development on the island becomes unsustainable despite the efforts made by, still, a minority.