30 Fascinating Images From Alternate Angles You May Not Have Seen Before
You’ve seen the Eiffel Tower a thousand times. You have not seen it from directly underneath, looking straight up, where it suddenly becomes a very intimidating piece of geometry. That’s the whole premise of r/AlternateAngles: take things everybody recognizes — landmarks, animals, everyday objects — and photograph them from the one angle nobody bothers with. The results range from “huh, neat” to “I genuinely did not know that’s what that looked like.”
1. Not sure if this counts but, the Grand Canyon view from a plane
2. Sunset from space
3. Mount Rushmore before the Presidents were carved in. It was called Six Fathers at this point.
4. The Sphinx from above
5. Forbidden angle
6. An elephant trunk seen from below (photo credit @brenden_simonson)
7. Albert Einstein before his famous photo with his tongue out
8. Underside of a horseshoe crab
9. The iconic photo of Michael Jordan which turned into the logo
10. William D. Nuñez took this picture of AA Flight 175 on September 11th, seconds before the plane hit the South Tower.
11. Great Pyramid of Giza (from the sky)
12. I’ve never walked directly under an electricity pylon before! There’s some brilliant symmetry.
13. A flying giant squirrel from India (Petaurista philippensis) caught in the act on a sunny day
14. News anchor from the other angle
15. Cars never claimed from Giants stadium commuter lot after 9/11
16. Saturn’s North Pole is a hexagon.
17. A photo of central park during the great depression (1933).
18. Aerial view of over 400,000 people at the Woodstock, 1969.
19. World, Pacific Ocean view
20. The 15 mile-long shadow of Mt. Fuji in Japan.
21. Hedgehog getting an X-Ray
22. New York’s Manhattan without skyscrapers
23. I’d never seen this angle of the Sydney Opera House and it looked different to me
24. Under a mushroom cap
25. The inside of a cello
26. Golden Gate bridge under construction
27. The space shuttle from the top.
28. Venice from above
29. Michelangelo’s ‘The Creation of Adam’ as seen on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
30. The Oval Office Between Presidents
