Viewing aerial imagery today is as easy as reaching into your pocket and opening your phone, but how did we get to this amazing technology? Beginning in the early 1800s, cartographers began production ...

Award-winning aerial photographer Brad Walls’ impressive new series “Ballerine de l’air” was inspired by fellow Australian artist Olive Cotton’s “Tea cup ballet,” a 1935 photograph that “evolved after ...

Water.Shapes.Earth is a spectacular photographic project from veteran artist and storyteller Milan Radisics. The project tells the story of how water shapes the planet by using aerial photography to ...

Commended, Toxic Beauty: spills from the copper mine in Riotinto, Spain, cast an ironically beautiful glow. The prettier and brighter the colors, the greater the toxicity. The ‘Photo Of The Year’, ...

Will Roger captures the beauty of Black Rock City, the temporary desert settlement built each year for Burning Man. Will Roger, photo from the back cover of Compass of the Ephemeral: Aerial ...

For over a decade Munich-based photographer Bernhard Lang has been working on a massively impressive project called Aerial Views. From the abstract spectacle of solar power plants in the United States ...

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This article is part of a series highlighting photographers who have submitted to Smithsonian.com's annual photo contest. Jassen Todorov is a modern Renaissance man. Originally from Bulgaria, he ...

Breathtaking views of glaciers, volcanoes and animals were celebrated in the competition’s inaugural year Gilad Topaz's "Drifting In Space" captures the moment that passengers onboard an icebreaker in ...

The fate of what remains of the House of Ludington is yet unknown. Fundraisers for the people immediately affected — the nine ...