We’ve all taken some cool photographs on holiday, haven’t we? Lovely beaches, beautiful mountains, rolling hilltops… Earth has some wonderful things to gawp at. But rarely do we get the opportunity to see our planet as the snappers behind this fantastic set of pictures have done.
Daily Overview is a brand new project from the website Digital Globe. And it’s brilliant. Every day a brand new – and totally amazing – aerial shot gets uploaded. Here are 30 of our favourite so far:
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Greenhouses in Southern Spain
Almudena Cemetery
The Amazon rainforest
Middle East (Bahrain)
Barcelona
Florida (Boca Raton)
Bourtange in Holland
Brondby
New York’s Central Park
Las Vegas, Nevada
Edson, Kansas
Georgetown
The Great Wall of China
Huelva, Spain
Inman Yard
Killeen, Texas
Loxahatchee
Madrid, Spain
Madrid’s Spaghetti Junction
Arizona (Mesa)
Newark, NJ
Chinese paddy fields
Palm Island
Port of LA
Saudi Arabia
Arizona – Tucson
Venice, Italy
Yuba County
Fantastic shots, aren’t they? The people behind the project say about it:
“The mesmerizing flatness seen from this vantage point, the surprising comfort of systematic organization on a massive scale, or the vibrant colours that we capture will hopefully turn your head.”
Well, quite.