The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

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"Post from the past": Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, photojournalist, knight of the Legion of Honor and winner of many other awards. He gained worldwide fame thanks to a series of photographs of various corners of the Earth taken from the air: the project "Earth seen from the Sky" (Eng. Earth from the Air; 1995). The book of the same name was published in Russian in 2002. Artus-Bertrand has published about 60 books with photographs taken from a height.

In total, 3 million books with his photographs have been sold in the world. (Watch Part 2)

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"
The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

"Cosmonaut" on the Nazca plateau, located on the territory of Peru.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Love Parade in the Bolshoy Tiergarten Park, located in the eponymous district of Berlin.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Central Park in New York.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Dovecotes in Mit Gamrah, Egypt. Pigeons are bred here for meat.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A caravan in the dunes. Mauritania.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A holiday village in the vicinity of Geneva, Switzerland.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Agricultural landscape near the city of Cognac, France.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Drying of freshly painted carpets in the Indian city of Jaipur.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A colony of emperor penguins on Beaufort Island off the coast of Antarctica.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Clusters of flamingos on the waters of a lake in Kenya.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The cemetery of Iraqi tanks in the desert in Kuwait.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A mosque in Mali.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

"Carousel" irrigation systems for fields in Jordan.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Phi Phi Le near Phuket Island. Thailand.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Icebreaker "Louis Saint Laurent" in the province of Nunavut. Canada.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Olive plantation in Andalusia.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Village on stilts in Tongkil. Philippines.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The temple of Ramses II in the rock of Abu Simbel. Egypt.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Yurts on the outskirts of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The heart of mangrove trees in New Caledonia.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The Chinese are drying corn on the highway in the vicinity of Beijing.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Fishermen on the ice of Lake Baikal.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Cemetery in Assiut. Egypt.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Cows in a pasture between dunes in Chile.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Fisherman on Lake Kossou in Ivory Coast.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The eruption of the Karymsky volcano in Kamchatka.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Charles de Gaulle Square in Paris.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Fields of tulips near Lisse, Netherlands.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The church of San Juan Parangacutiro, destroyed as a result of the eruption of the volcano Parikutin, in Mexico.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The Uffington White Horse is a 110-meter chalk figure in the English county of Oxfordshire. The age is about 3 thousand years.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A village near Lake Chad.

Venice from a bird's-eye view.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The stone forest of Scurvy de Bemaraha, which was formed as a result of erosion of softer limestone rock.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A tractor in a field in Montana.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Man-made islands forming an archipelago of Palm trees in Dubai, UAE.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The world's largest man-made archipelago - the general plan.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Bras de Caverne Gorge on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A lonely figure in a New York stadium.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

"Awnings of the World" by the artist Clara Halter from Jerusalem.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Athabasca oil desert in Canada.

Snow-covered Pripyat.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Royal tombs in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Salt formations of the Dead Sea.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Roman Theater in Palmyra, Syria.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A flock of birds flies over a landfill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Fujiyama.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A giant inscription on a helipad in New York: "Melissa, will you marry me?"

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Hyacinth thickets on the Nile River.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

A melted iceberg in a fjord in Greenland.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

Rice fields in Nepal.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

The confluence of one of the tributaries into the Uruguay River in the Argentine province of Misiones.

The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

View of the central part of the French city of Nevers, the capital of the department of Nièvre.

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