http://pixtale.net/2013/12/...-if-you-were-a-bird/

Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

Is this where sailors call "around the horn"?:

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Awesome images! Thanks for posting.

Looks like SimCity to me!

both beautiful and frightening.

Some of those are breathtaking. Thanks for posting, texasfiero. I would be happy to have 29, 11, 9 and 8 as posters in the living room.

Is this art? The photographer didn't create any of this. Is capturing the beautiful and breath taking around us, if you are at the right place at the right time, art?

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Awesome pics, thanks for sharing

Awesome pictures, thanks!

Here's another take on birds eye view

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Dubai....wierd!

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Some of those are breathtaking. Thanks for posting, texasfiero. I would be happy to have 29, 11, 9 and 8 as posters in the living room. Is this art? The photographer didn't create any of this. Is capturing the beautiful and breath taking around us, if you are at the right place at the right time, art?

I'm pretty sure that photography is included as art. Ansel Adams?

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Is this art? The photographer didn't create any of this. Is capturing the beautiful and breath taking around us, if you are at the right place at the right time, art?

the photographer did not create the subjects, but did create the images. the photographer managed composition time and light to make these images.
many of the subjects were created by people, though not mindfully of the image from above, and some (like dubai(sort of ostentatious/tacky imo, but...)) were deliberately constructed with the view from above in mind.
but is a picture of a pretty girl or a flower art? is the orderly arrangement of tones from a guitar art?

quote Originally posted by lurker: is the orderly arrangement of tones from a guitar art?

Yes. Ask music critics about Andres Segovia or George Benson.

Composition and light management; of course it is art.

Everything is art

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9 and 17 were my favorites

Neat

And somehow, #20 Moscow fits exactly the "cold war" conception my brain has from pop culture/movies, compared to the vibrancy of the other pictures.