大家知道上圖是什麼嗎？遠遠看起來好像石紋，但其實是印度的首都新德里（New Delhi），根據攝影師的資料，那裏約有 1600 萬居民，而照片中的 Uttam Nagar 和 Santosh Park 是人口最密集的地方，也是貧民區。

這個專們以高空拍攝世界各地的帳號 Daily Overview（@dailyoverview ）是 Benjamin Grant 在 2013 年開始的 Instagram 計劃。並推出了攝影書《Overview: A New Perspective of Earth》。如果有興趣購買攝影集，可以前往 Amazon，售價為 USD29（約 HKD226），全書 288 頁。

以這樣的角度看世界，感覺會不太一樣吧，大家可以看看其他作品：

The salt evaporation ponds seen here cover roughly 10 square miles (26 square km) in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Salt is extracted from the water here through a lengthy process. First, water from the bay is channeled into massive basins where it begins a transformation into brines. Over five years, the brines evaporate, concentrate, and travel several miles before they are collected as pure salt crystals. The massive ponds get their vibrant color from a particular species of algae (Dunaliella) that thrives in extremely salty water and produces a red pigment. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @nearmap

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Oct 10, 2016 at 7:50am PDT

Cars are unloaded and parked at an automobile terminal in Richmond, California, USA. In 2015, 17.5 million cars and light trucks were sold in the United States, raising the total number of registered vehicles in the country to roughly 253 million. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @nearmap A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Oct 6, 2016 at 8:12am PDT

Our thoughts are with the people of Haiti following the loss and damage the country is facing in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. In the city of Jeremie, it is estimated that 80% of the buildings have been flattened by the storm. We encourage you to check out the link in our profile to learn more about how you can help. We don’t have any imagery yet of the areas most affected by the storm, so this Overview shows houses covering the steep hillsides of the Killick Stenio Vincent neighborhood in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Oct 8, 2016 at 6:17am PDT

Rice paddies, constructed in steps, cover the mountainsides of Yuanyang County, China. Cultivated by the Hani people for the last 1300 years, the slope of the terraces varies from 15 to 75 degrees with some having as many as 3,000 steps. As we’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about prints, I want to mention that this Overview, and many others, can be purchased directly from our website (link in profile) in the Printshop section! /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Oct 4, 2016 at 7:54am PDT

The medina quarter in Marrakesh, Morocco is characterized by its winding, maze-like streets. Because the intricately connected honeycomb of alleyways narrows to less than a meter wide (~ 3 feet) at certain spots, the area is generally free from car traffic. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 29, 2016 at 10:26am PDT

The Forbidden City in Beijing, China was built from 1406 until 1420 by more than one million workers. The palace complex, which contains 9,999 rooms, is surrounded by walls and a moat that are 26 feet high and 171 feet wide, respectively. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Oct 2, 2016 at 7:23am PDT

Shipping containers are stacked at the Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The massive facility handles over 600,000 containers every year and has begun expansion projects that will increase annual capacity to 1.1 million containers by 2030. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @nearmap

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 27, 2016 at 7:29am PDT

Houses, built in concentric circles, make up a section of Sun City, Arizona, USA. When the development opened on January 1, 1960, the event attracted a crowd of more than 100,000 onlookers and the “futuristic development” was featured on the cover of Time magazine. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @nearmap A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 23, 2016 at 5:29am PDT

Residential development is seen in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Because many cities in the state contain master-planned communities, often built on top of waterways in the latter half of the twentieth century, there are a number of intricate designs that are visible from the Overview perspective. Boca Raton is home to roughly 91,000 residents. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 22, 2016 at 4:53am PDT

Train cars filled with coal are stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Operated by the Norfolk Southern corporation, Lamberts Point Pier 6 is the largest coal-loading station in the Northern Hemisphere and serves at the temporary depot for the company’s fleet of 23,000 coal cars. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant, source imagery: @digitalglobe A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 10, 2016 at 7:23am PDT

Zoom in and check out this turbine interchange connecting SR 9A and SR 202 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Also known as a whirlpool interchange, this structure consists of left-turning ramps sweeping around a center interchange, thereby creating a spiral pattern of right-hand traffic. /// Source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 1, 2016 at 6:49am PDT

The largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world is located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The boneyard — run by the 309th Airspace Maintenance and Regeneration Group — contains more than 4,400 retired American military and government aircraft. This incredible image was captured via airplane and is courtesy of our friends @nearmap A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Aug 19, 2016 at 10:57am PDT

The urban plan of the L’Eixample district in Valencia, Spain is characterized by long straight streets, a strict grid pattern crossed by wide avenues, and apartments with communal courtyards. A similar layout was used for the district of the same name in Barcelona. The circular structure in the upper right is the Plaza de Toros de Valencia – the city’s largest bullfighting arena. /// Source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Aug 17, 2016 at 7:30am PDT

Löyly is a public sauna located on the edge of the Baltic Sea in Helsinki, Finland. The building, constructed with repurposed wood, features a shell-like design that has been described as a “tunturi” – the Finnish word for something in between a hill and a mountain. In total, Finland contains approximately 3.3 million saunas or roughly one per household. This incredible shot was shared with us by @joelmiikka /// See more at @helsinkisauna A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Aug 11, 2016 at 7:53am PDT

Center pivot irrigation is used throughout the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin of Saudi Arabia. Water is mined from depths as great as one kilometer (~3,000 ft), pumped to the surface, and evenly distributed by sprinklers that rotate 360 degrees. Spurred by a government effort to strengthen its agriculture sector, cultivated land in Saudi Arabia grew from 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than 8 million acres by 1993. For a sense of scale, the total area shown in this Overview is approximately forty square miles.

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Jun 16, 2016 at 11:11am PDT

Thousands of trucks and cars surround the Central de Abasto – Mexico City’s largest wholesale market for produce and other foodstuffs. The market serves more than 300,000 people and handles over 30,000 tons of merchandise each day — representing roughly 80% of consumption in the Mexico City metropolitan area. /// Source imagery: @digitalglobe A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Jun 8, 2016 at 6:53am PDT

Today @instagram added a flash of color to their new icon so we thought we do the same on our feed! This Overview shows the stunningly vibrant tulips fields in Lisse, Netherlands that are in peak bloom at this time every year. The country produces 4.3 billion tulip bulbs annually. Source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on May 11, 2016 at 12:32pm PDT

Pivot irrigation fields cover the landscape north of Copeland, Kansas, USA. Powered by electric motors, lines of sprinklers rotate 360 degrees to evenly water crops. Source imagery: @digitalglobe A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Mar 29, 2016 at 10:42am PDT

Olive tree plantations cover the hills of Córdoba, Spain. Approximately 90% of all harvested olives are turned in to oil, while the other 10% are eaten as table olives. /// Created by @benjaminrgrant for “Overview” (see link in profile). Source imagery: @digitalglobe

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Sep 19, 2016 at 7:19am PDT

The Eixample District in Barcelona, Spain is characterised by its strict grid pattern and apartments with communal courtyards. This thoughtful and visionary design was the work of Ildefons Cerdà (1815–1876). His plan features broad streets that widen at octagonal intersections to create greater visibility with increased sunlight, better ventilation, and more space for short-term parking. Source imagery: @planetlabs A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on May 21, 2016 at 8:32am PDT

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