{"id":316,"date":"2008-10-06T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T20:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-10-06T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:18:32","slug":"amazing-photos-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/amazing-photos-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Photos from Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/10\/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/universal\/site_graphics\/blogs\/bigpicture\/efa_10_06\/07_ff.jpg\"  width=\"400\" alt=\"new plant life on a volcano\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yannarthusbertrand.org\/\">Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand<\/a> brings his amazing large format aerial photography <a href=\"http:\/\/earthfromaboveusa.com\/index.html\">to NYC next year<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/10\/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html\">an amazing collection of his work<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/\"> The Big Picture <\/a> (one of my favorite weekly photo sites).<\/p>\n<p>The images above is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mountainous countryside near Maelifellssandur, Myrdalsj\u00f6kull Region, Iceland. Once the young lava fields of Iceland cool down, life begins anew little by little. Ice, wind and water flatten and carve out shapes to begin with, then, during the summer, bacteria, lichen and fungi prepare the soil for plants, in particular mosses which adapt to an environment which remains difficult. These plants colonise the most favourable sites and terrain little by little, forming a new ecosystem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each photo has a link to the Google satallite photo of the location. The link for the above image is <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&#038;ll=63.761851,-19.204102&#038;spn=0.935022,2.848206&#038;t=k&#038;z=9\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand brings his amazing large format aerial photography to NYC next year. Here&#8217;s an amazing collection of his work on The Big Picture (one of my favorite weekly photo sites). The images above is: Mountainous countryside near Maelifellssandur, Myrdalsj\u00f6kull Region, Iceland. Once the young lava fields of Iceland cool down, life begins anew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,277,5,271,166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}