Seeking an Aerial View of Roosevelt Island's "Encampment"

Returning from an out of town trip yesterday afternoon, the flight path of the plane took me directly over the "Encampment" installation on Roosevelt Island. It was quite stunning seeing dozens of white tents lined up in rows on Southpoint Park from a plane flying above them.
The view at night of the illuminated tents from a plane must be spectacular.
If anyone out there happens to be on a plane or a helicopter flying over Roosevelt Island, or knows someone who is, please try to take some photos and/or video of the installation and send them to Thom Sokoloski, the creator of the Encampment.
The Toronto Star on the "Encampment".

As hundreds of New Yorkers walked among the some 100 vintage pale white tents on Roosevelt Island last night, every one silhouetted against the brilliant New York skyline, they couldn't have known how close "The Encampment," by Toronto artist Thom Sokoloski, came to being shut down even before it could be put up.

New York is now discovering the most compelling installation in its own backyard since the salmon-coloured fabric of Christo's and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" brightened up a wintry Central Park in 2005. They won't have long, though. "The Encampment" comes down after tonight.

Problems earlier in the week when:

On Tuesday, he even felt he might have to abandon entirely the $100,000 project until a supporter came up with the needed money in the last minute. Local bureaucracy wasn't particularly helpful, either. The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) had withdrawn the promise of some $12,000 in funding, after promising its financial support earlier this year.

By yesterday, though, the last of the 99 other Civil War-style dog tents were finally in their not-quite symmetrical militaristic rows. These were the final touches on the scrubby site across the East River from the United Nations that had been transformed by visiting school kids putting up tents, busloads of hospital patients helping to fill them with artifacts, the arrival of the New York Times, Fox TV and other media outlets, as well as some well-timed appearances by local politicians.

With the problems fixed:

Now Sokoloski had every reason to be cool. "It's a wonderful moment when everyone going by, in boats or planes overhead or driving along the Roosevelt Parkway, first sees the lights in the tents," he says. "What did I do here? I created a model of sociability. I worked with people. I shook their hand."

Image is from All New York Tours.