We can easily take images like this for granted today, but for its time, a photograph like this was an incredible achievement. Both photography itself as well as air travel have progressed a lot over the 160+ years since this photo was taken. It really puts a lot into perspective how much technology (and the world itself) has changed in so much time.
![“Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It” by James Wallace Black [1860] (first aerial photograph)](https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/5a91a3d7-4583-46b8-a37a-fad0c6606862.jpeg){kind=link}
We can easily take images like this for granted today, but for its time, a photograph like this was an incredible achievement. Both photography itself as well as air travel have progressed a lot over the 160+ years since this photo was taken. It really puts a lot into perspective how much technology (and the world itself) has changed in so much time.