April 27, 2012

kqedscience:

Objects take on a kind of magical quality when viewed from this unusual perspective…and that’s exactly what drove photographer Alex MacLean to get a pilot’s license and take to the sky.”

Not all of these are botanical arrangements, no, but the ones that do find their way into this gallery are particularly good. There’s something about the ruler-straight arrangement of a tree farm that proves simultaneously elegant and spooky.

I seem to remember a fight scene in the original Mortal Kombat movie that took place in just such a spooky tree farm. High five and a commiserative eye roll if you know what I’m talking about. —MN

(via npr)

March 25, 2012
An aerial view of The New York Botanical Garden snapped in 1921.
(Source: Mertz Library Digital Archives)

An aerial view of The New York Botanical Garden snapped in 1921.

(Source: Mertz Library Digital Archives)

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