Photography is loved by many people – young and old. Perhaps the beauty of it is the idea that a single moment in time can be captured forever. This single moment is also always from a personal perspective. It is like being able to see the exact viewpoint of another individual and that perhaps excites fans of the art form.
One area of photography which has simply no comparison is aerial photography. The art of aerial photography was started all the way back in 1858 and by photographer Gaspar Felix Tournachon. Tournachon photographed a village in France and made everybody fall in love with the concept of taking images from up above. Since then, we have seen images emerging of skylines, wildlife, and city aerial shots, to name a few. We’ve now compiled a list of some of the most spectacular aerial images in recent history and trust us when we say – you’ll enjoy seeing our world from this perspective.
1Muhammad Ali knocks out Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome, Houston, 1966
2View of NYC from plane window
3Vegas suburbia contrast by Alex Maclean
4Red Rocks Amphitheater - Morrison, Colorado USA
5University of Colorado Campus Boulder, Colorado, USA
6Aerial shot of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
7Skydiving into 'Burning Man'. Black Rock Desert, Nevada
8The largest crowd ever recorded at a hockey game (105,491 people) The NHL Winter Classic, Jan 1, 2014, Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI
9This is Egmont National Park, a protected area in New Zealand. To prevent agriculture from ruining the mountainside, construction is prohibited in a radius around the peak of Mount Taranaki
10Boats
11Vancouver, Canada at sunset
12Sea Cliff Bridge, Australia
13Chicago, 30,000 feet up
14If planes took selfies
15Skydiving over the Great Blue Hole, Belize
16Burning Man 2016
17Aerial bombardment, Pointe du Hoc, ground zero during Normandy
18The border between Poland and Ukraine
19Amsterdam
20Andre Agassi and Roger Federer playing atop of Burj Khalifa helipad
21Schloss Schwerin, Germany
227 square miles of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
23Male, capital of the Maldives
24Tokyo, Japan
25Desert Road
