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Sometimes the best photographs come from simply looking at the world from a different perspective. The five photographers featured have all taken this sentiment to daring heights, abstracting landscapes via a bird's-eye view. 

From Miks Mihails Ignats' portraits that obscure perception to Vladimir Melnikov'sunlikely view of a wildfire devouring the land, and from Mariusz Szczygiel's and B Brown's graphic displays of industry from above to BMJ's vision of an ocean in which boats look like bathtub toys, each of these photographers brings a unique eye to aerial photography...

Via Lauren Moss

n 1880 Alexander Graham Bell Invented the Photophone. While his earlier invention, the telephone, uses electricity to transmit voice communications, the photophone relied on a beam of light to send sound. A person's voice was projected through an instrument toward a mirror. The vibrations of the voice caused vibrations in the mirror. Sunlight was then directed into the mirror, where the vibrations were captured and projected back to the photophone's receiver where they were converted back into sound.

Bell believed that the photophone was "the greatest invention [I have] ever made, greater than the telephone". He might be right, the photophone was a precursor to the fiber-optic communication systems. The reason why the photophone didn't take off during Bell's time is simply that the system was useless whenever the weather was cloudy.

Via Jacques Urbanska