Get high at Glastonbury: the Guardian's aerial shots of the festival

Guardian photographer David Levene used an eight-metre pole to get up above the crowds and create a unique perspective on this year’s festival

It can be difficult to get an elevated view at Glastonbury. There are various high-up platforms around the site, and of course there are the hills that give a view down into the valley where the festival nestles. But for much of the weekend you are in a crowd, looking up. Guardian photographer David Levene therefore used an eight metre-high “monopod” – a sort of highly stable pole with his camera stuck on top – to create elevation and give us a better sense of the scale of the crowds.

I wanted to get a slightly different viewpoint of the things that have become very familiar to our readers
David Levene