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Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position.

The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or triggered automatically.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born March 13, 1946) is a renowned and internationally-recognised French photographer. He originally specialised in animal photography, but later turned to aerial photography of subjects in many locations across the world. He has produced over 60 books of his landscape photographs taken from helicopters and balloons. Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s work has often been published in the National Geographic magazine.

A heart shaped mangrove swamp in Voh, New Caledonia (French Overseas Territory)

The Corcovado overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The archipelago of the Leeward Islands (or îles Sous-le-Vent») in French Polynesia

Funicular ascencor with barges of Str?py-Thieu on the channel of the Center, Belgium

Perito Moreno Glacier, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Petroleum lakes near Al Burgan, Al Khiran,Kuwait

The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel and The Palestinian Territories

PALM TREE PLANTATION, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Promotional stand, Lake Balaton, Hungary

City of Shibam Hadramawt, region of Hadramawt, Yemen

Maelifell, bordering the Myrdalsjökull glacier, Iceland

The Genbaku Dome, epicenter of the 1945 atom bomb explosion, Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan

Tulip fields near Lisse, Amsterdam Region, Netherlands

Great chinese Wall near Beijing, People’s Republic of China

VIEW OF VENICE, VENETO, ITALY

Village on silts, near Pundu, Borneo, Indonesia

Meanders in the Amazon River near Manaus, Brazil

Bullfight at the arenas in Seville, Andalucia, Spain

Oceanographic museum, Le Rocher, Monaco

Royal tombs of Wat Phra si Sanphet (Temple of Sanphet), Ayutthaya, Thailand

Traditional cemetery near Pingtung, Taiwan

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England

Süleymaniye Camii Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Floating house in the Christianshavn (Christiana) district, Denmark

Ruins of the medieval citadel of Shali in the town of Siwa, Egypt

Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile

Fishermen on rocks, Ras Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden

Village at the northern tip of Santorini, Cyclades, Greece

Daluraman Palace, destroyed in 2001, Kabul, Afghanistan

Chittagong ship breaking yard, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Motorway exchanger on the Han river, Seoul, South Korea

“Love Parade” in Tiergarten Park, Berlin, Germany

Oil platform on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela