The legendary photo project "Earth seen from the sky"

"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)

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

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

Central Park in New York.

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

A caravan in the dunes. Mauritania.

A holiday village in the vicinity of Geneva, Switzerland.

Agricultural landscape near the city of Cognac, France.

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

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

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

The cemetery of Iraqi tanks in the desert in Kuwait.

A mosque in Mali.

"Carousel" irrigation systems for fields in Jordan.

Phi Phi Le near Phuket Island. Thailand.

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

Olive plantation in Andalusia.

Village on stilts in Tongkil. Philippines.

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

Yurts on the outskirts of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.

The heart of mangrove trees in New Caledonia.

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

Fishermen on the ice of Lake Baikal.

Cemetery in Assiut. Egypt.

Cows in a pasture between dunes in Chile.

Fisherman on Lake Kossou in Ivory Coast.

The eruption of the Karymsky volcano in Kamchatka.

Charles de Gaulle Square in Paris.

Fields of tulips near Lisse, Netherlands.

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

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

A village near Lake Chad.

Venice from a bird's-eye view.

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

A tractor in a field in Montana.

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

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

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

A lonely figure in a New York stadium.

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

Athabasca oil desert in Canada.

Snow-covered Pripyat.

Royal tombs in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

Salt formations of the Dead Sea.

Roman Theater in Palmyra, Syria.

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

Fujiyama.

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

Hyacinth thickets on the Nile River.

A melted iceberg in a fjord in Greenland.

Rice fields in Nepal.

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

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