Using Samuel Archer King’s hot air balloon to get the shot.
The city has grown
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.
is this the entry scene of Against The Day?
NGL I thought this was the reflection in the Warner Brothers logo when they play their animation thing before a movie
The public most certainly had their minds blown when this came out.
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