Lead image by Emmanuel Coupe KalomirisEvery once in a while, I'll get lost on But Does It Float, an Australian-based website that hosts an arsenal of some of the most magnificent illustrations, photos, and visuals waiting to suck in viewers as if it were a giant, HTML black hole.The other day I noticed the work of Emmanuel Coupe Kalomiris, a landscape photographer known for bird's eye snapshots of Iceland that are so ebullient that they don't even look real (see above and below).
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His work got us at The Creators Project thinking about some of our other favorite aerial pics as of late, and we decided to compile a bunch of our favorites. From psychedelic photos of Chinese airports to satellite images by Jenny Odell, these are some views from above that will make you float.
[Editor's note: Smith makes his photos by compositing from thousands of digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images]@zachsokol
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