The question of aerial photography came up in a meeting today, so I went looking through my archives for a few samples. They are a few years old but from such interesting and/or beautiful places, I felt like sharing them here.

Neft Daslari, or “Oily Rocks,” a Soviet-built offshore oil installation that resembles a city with full dormitories, tea house, offshore oil platforms and a Heydar Aliyev Museum, is seen 40 kilometers from the Azeri coast in the Caspian Sea on July 15, 2010. Neft Daslari is the world’s first offshore oil platform.
Post-script, February 5: Coincidentally, yesterday was all about helicopters. Who hasn’t misremembered that time they flew in a helicopter that wasn’t hit by an RPG? I certainly don’t misremember anything of the sort happening in any of these helicopter journeys. I did refuse a helicopter elsewhere in Slovakia though due to wind conditions and the fact that I detected the smell of slivovitz on the pilot. No picture is worth a life and no lie is worth a lifetime of credibility-building within your field and among the greater public.