When Félix Nadar decided he wanted to take photographs of Paris from a hot air balloon in 1855, the idea of aerial photography was, for pretty much everyone else, a faraway dream.

Last week, moments after an Airbus 320 lifted off from Charles de Gaulle airport and rose through the atmosphere, the jetliner's captain whipped out a camera and snapped a series of photos of ...

Gorgeous Aerial Photos Show Paris Like You've Never Seen It Before. By Jennifer Polland. 2013-09-06T15:39:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of ...