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Using Samuel Archer King's hot air balloon to get the shot.
The city has grown
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Once the tallest building in its neighborhood, now the shortest, looks like.
You mean ruined
This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it, OP. Have a great day.
And thank you for being all positive on Lemmy!
We can easily take images like this for granted today, but for its time, a photograph like this was an incredible achievement. Both photography itself as well as air travel have progressed a lot over the 160+ years since this photo was taken. It really puts a lot into perspective how much technology (and the world itself) has changed in so much time.
aerial?
Yes, but it was taken by a mermaid.
even more impressive
Why do you think a font got named after her?
I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.
NGL I thought this was the reflection in the Warner Brothers logo when they play their animation thing before a movie
is this the entry scene of Against The Day?
The public most certainly had their minds blown when this came out.