This Photographer Captured A Beautiful Bird's-Eye View Of The Big Apple
🎶 New York, New York 🎶
New York offers some of the most iconic photographic sites in the world
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But photographer George Steinmetz's "New York Air" project aims to capture them in a unique way
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From the sky, that is.
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Steinmetz shot most of the photos from this unique little contraption which is one part helicopter and one part paraglider.
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From this vantage point, he could experience a pigeon-eye view of the Big Apple and captured some stunning images of America's largest city.
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Like hundreds of cabs waiting for passengers at JFK airport
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Or a packed film screening at Bryant Park
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According to Steinmetz, the project aims to "capture the complexity of 21st-century New York, with its new skyline and waterfront landscape, dazzling contemporary architecture and historic buildings,"
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"—along with parks and streets and rooftops used for every possible purpose, and the massive infrastructure that keeps it all going."
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