Snapshots of bridges in google earth - a demonstration of the limits of mapping aerial images onto terrain models

"The Supervisions series, begun in 2002, are based on images of urban areas revealing both views of public sites and their surfaces, as well as offering insights into closed areas from a bird's-eye perspective. By means of an elaborate photographic technique, Gefeller creates these »possible« and »impossible« view-points. Hundreds of individual shots are digitally joined, giving rise to the impression that the overall sight has originated from a much higher perspective. The uncommon formation process is betrayed by the detail-richness resulting from the high-resolution quality of the images of »scanned« surfaces and the optical breaks between single segments originating through perspective shifts. Yet this only becomes apparent to the observer through close inspection." - Soma, night photography of highly overlit environments like resort hotels, is quite fascinating as well

George Lawrence's famous aerial photograph, “San Francisco in Ruins,” taken with a 49-pound panoramic camera suspended from a series of Conyne kites.

Images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite - and most recently, the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Available for download as hi-res TIFF suitable for printing at 8x8

spectacular aerial photography