BIG balloons helped some keen photographers get a bird’s eye view of Worcester.

The sky was the limit for a group of enthusiastic photographers as they fixed their beloved cameras to balloons filled with helium and set them loose in the skies above Gheluvelt Park in Worcester on Saturday.

Twelve people took part in the innovative workshop between 10am and noon. The cameras – all of them compact digital ones – and the balloons to which they were attached – were suspended from a long string to prevent them being lost.

A timed shutter release or video was used to capture images of the park from above.

Worcester City Council park warden Michelle Newell compared it to flying a kite and told photographers that the quality of the photographs depended on wind speed and other conditions.

She said: “We were trying to do something a bit more experimental. Everything we had done before had been pretty much standard.”

She hopes a similar event can take place in the park in July as part of the Olympic celebrations when they can capture images of dancers from above.

Among those to attend the event was Dunstan Power of Droitwich Road, Worcester, and his sons Nicholas, aged 10, and Robert, aged four.

Mr Power said: “I have been into photography for years in a casual way but I have never done anything like this before. I have only done normal, ground level photography.”