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Notre Dame of Paris at mid-height
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This photo story (archives) has been made from a bucket truck to mark the great restoration of the western facade of the cathedral, completed in 1997. On December 12, 2012 will open the 850th anniversary of the cathedral, celebrated until December 9, 2013. Among the major projects: 1/ A new bell in the cathedral towers of eight bells and a new drone t...
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Date: 08/05/2012 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Joan of Arc : relics and works of art along her historic route, from Domremy to Rouen.
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To mark the 600th anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc, relics and works of art in the nine major cities that have marked the journey of the maiden between 1429 and 1431.
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Date: 13/01/2012 | Place: Diverses - France | Features
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The Cathedral of Bayonne at mid-height
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Exclusive images outside and inside of the cathedral of Bayonne, made at mid-height with thethered photo-balloon.
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Date: 16/02/2012 | Place: Bayonne - France | Features
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The Pyramids of the Pharaohs Black finally classified as World Heritage
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The pyramids of Meroe (220 km northeast of Khartoum) and the ancient sites of Naga and Mussawarat were classified the 29 June 2011 on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. A few months ago, we followed the visit of Menno Welling, a member of ICOMOS (agency which "notes" candidates) on all three sites of ancient kingdom of Kush, who ruled during seven centuries over an...
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Date: 24/09/2010 | Place: Méroé, Mussawarat, Naga, Khartoum, Assouan - Soudan | Features
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Date: 07/10/2011 | Place: Strasbourg - France | Features
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Date: 10/08/2011 | Place: Amiens - France | Features
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Date: 11/10/2009 | Place: Saint Tropez - France | Features
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Date: 11/06/2011 | Place: France | Features
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Date: 06/04/2011 | Place: Reims - France | Features
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Date: 20/04/2011 | Place: Saint Vulbas (01) et Cattenom (57) - France | Features
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Date: 20/03/2011 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Date: 05/03/2011 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Ref.: 20110201 (714) |
Date: 29/01/2011 | Place: Albi - France | Features
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Troyes : the medieval city (Unesco World Heritage) at mid-height
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Ref.: 20101004 (672) |
Date: 14/10/2010 | Place: Troyes - France | Features
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Date: 15/09/2010 | Place: Albi - France | Features
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Date: 02/11/2010 | Place: Versailles - France | Features
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The world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, Dubai : aerial photos and ground
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Khalifa Burj Khalifa, tallest tower in the world with 828 meters, is part of an urbanistic, real estate and architectural unusual project covering an area of two km2. Called "Downtown Burj Khalifa", this district created ex nihilo includes, besides the skyscraper itself, a set of 30 000 homes and 20 residential towers, 9 hotels, the largest shopping mall in the wor...
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Date: 03/06/2010 | Place: Dubai - Emirats Arabes Unis | Features
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Nature Capitale, the Champs Elysées as the countryside. A work of street made by the french artists Gad Weil and Laurence Medio...
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Twenty years after planting wheat on the most beautiful avenue in the world during the Great Harvest, the street artist Gad Weil takes the path of the Champs Elysees. With Laurence Medioni and support the Young Farmers, he staged beds of forest trees, cereals and vegetable crops. A total of 150 species that make up a large puzzle of rural France. A huge project of ...
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Date: 27/05/2010 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Ref.: 20100502 (717) |
Date: 17/05/2010 | Place: Cannes - France | Features
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Saint Tropez : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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Saint Tropez : aerial and mid-height photos (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) of old harbour, quays, old town and beaches of the famous french Riviera's village.
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Ref.: 20100401 (639) |
Date: 06/04/2010 | Place: St Tropez - France | Features
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The Vatican at mid-height
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The Vatican: aerial photos done at mid-height with the tethered balloon operated remotely by the photographer. Place and St. Peter's Basilica, gardens, museums and government buildings in the territory of the smallest state in the world.
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Ref.: 20100102 (627) |
Date: 16/12/2009 | Place: Rome - Italie | Features
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Burgundy : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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Burgundy: aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground from Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Auxerre, Cluny, Vezelay, Fontenay and other sites.
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Ref.: 20100101 (632) |
Date: 04/01/2010 | Place: Dijon, Beaune, Autun, Auxerre, Cluny, Vezelay, Fontenay - France | Features
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The house heated by itself and other french sites involved in sustainable development : aerial photographs, mid-height (made wi...
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Bessencourt, Antibes, Dunkerque, Lons le Saunier, Mulhouse, Rennes: aerial photos, mid-height (with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground of six french cities and sites involved in the fight against the greenhouse effect, the global warming and sustainable development.
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Date: 12/12/2009 | Place: Bessencourt, Antibes, Dunkerque, Lons le Saunier, Mulhouse, Rennes - France | Features
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Ile Seguin in construction : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The construction site of Ile Seguin : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground until completion, expected in 2013
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Ref.: 20091103 (623) |
Date: 17/11/2009 | Place: Boulogne Billancourt - France | Features
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Berlin : the wall and the city 20 years after the fall. Aerial photos, at mid-height and ground
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The Berlin Wall has been the subject of extensive restoration campaign to mark the twentieth anniversary of his fall, November 9, 1989. Aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground. Scattered throughout the city, fragments, memorials and artworks evoking the wall are now protected and maintained in the midle of an urban enviro...
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Date: 03/10/2009 | Place: Berlin - Allemagne | Features
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Eiffel Tower, the painters climbers : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground
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The Eiffel Tower is getting a makeover to mark its 120 anniversary. For the makeup, an international team (France, United Kingdom, Portugal, Romania, Morocco and Greece) 26 painters climbers who began the 19th year restoration of the monument, planned from April 2009 to October 2010. Seven years after the previous season, rain, wind, heat, frost, bird droppings and...
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Ref.: 20090801 (620) |
Date: 10/08/2009 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Balloons : new world record in Lorraine. Aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground
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The Lorraine Mondial Air Ballon (24 July to 2 August 2009) is the largest international gathering of hot air balloons (the one of Albuquerque, USA, is involving mainly americans). The event is located on the airfield Chambley-Bussières (former NATO military base near Metz) and held for 20 years by Philippe Buron Pilatre (descendant of Jean-François de Rozier Pilatr...
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Date: 27/07/2009 | Place: Chambley-Bussières - France | Features
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Date: 12/06/2009 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Date: 07/06/2009 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Marrakech : aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon)
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Marrakech : aerials and mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) photos of Djemma Efna square, the Koutoubia and main sites of Marrakesh.
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Date: 07/05/2009 | Place: Marrakech - Maroc | Features
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Colmar : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The city of Colmar : aerial photos, half-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground
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Ref.: 20090401 (602) |
Date: 07/03/2009 | Place: Colmar - France | Features
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Pau : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The city of Pau : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground
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Date: 26/02/2009 | Place: Pau - France | Features
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Rouen : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The city of Rouen : aerial photos, half-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground
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Ref.: 20081201 (587) |
Date: 04/12/2008 | Place: Rouen - France | Features
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Paris : aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon). 2° part (right bank)
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Paris : aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) of the main sites of the capital (right bank). More pictures will be added over the months. Also, feel free to contact us if you have a specific request.
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Date: 08/01/2009 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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Paris : aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon). 1° part (left bank)
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Paris : aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) of the main sites of the capital (left bank). More pictures will be added over the months. Also, feel free to contact us if you have a specific request.
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Date: 05/01/2009 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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The Bahamas Islands : underwater photos, aerial, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The Bahamas, underwater photography, aerial, half-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground of the main points of the archipelago, which counts 700 islands and 200 rocks spread over 1200 km from north to south (only 5% are inhabited). Known for luxury tourism and its tax system, the archipelago is primarily a natural paradise with pristine be...
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Ref.: 20081001 (588) |
Date: 17/12/2008 | Place: Bahamas | Features
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Date: 30/06/2008 | Place: Paris - France | Features
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The Mont Saint Michel : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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Le Mont Saint Michel : aerial photos, half-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon ) and ground of the main sites of the Wonder of the West. More pictures will be added over the months. Also, feel free to contact us if you have a specific request.
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Ref.: 20071201 (578) |
Date: 22/12/2007 | Place: Mt St Michel - France | Features
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Vauban citadels of Unesco list : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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14 Vauban citadels in aerial photos, at mid-height (with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground. They have been classified as World Heritage by Unesco in 2008, the tercentenary of the death of Sebastien Priest, Marshal Vauban (1633-1707). A choice that aims to protect and enhance these fortifications designed by this genius of defensive architecture, which ...
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Ref.: 20070701 (559) |
Date: 03/09/2007 | Place: France | Features
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Expedition Pole Airship led By Jean Louis Etienne, 5th part. Flights of the dirigeable in Fayence. January 2008
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Training flights of the airship and workouts of pilots in Fayence. A week later, the airship was under a storm and crashed on a house located a few hundred yards from the airfield of Fayence : the expedition is now halted until further notice.
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Date: 21/01/2008 | Place: Fayence - France | Features
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Expedition Pole Airship led By Jean Louis Etienne, 4th part. Flights of the dirigeable in Fayence. November 2007.
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Flights of the airship above Fayence and the surrounding area. The pilots of the expedition will be trained on this field during the next three months.
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Date: 30/11/2007 | Place: Fayence, Var - France | Features
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Expedition Pole Airship led By Jean Louis Etienne, 3rd part. First flights of the dirigeable in Marseille. October 2007.
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For its first test flight (october 25th 2007), the airship took off from the secondary runway at the airport of Marseille-Provence and flew over the pond of Berre for forty minutes.
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Date: 25/10/2007 | Place: Aéroport de Marseille-Provence - France | Features
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Expedition Pole Air Ship led by Jean Louis Etienne, 2nd part. September 18th - october 12th. Marseille, France.
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Arrival of the airship (delivered in kit) in hangars Boussiron at the airport of Marseille Provence (September 18, 2007). Then inflation of the envelope, assembly of mechanical parts, fixing the gondola, etc.. (September 19 to October 12, 2007). Finally, baptism of the airship in hangars Boussiron October 12, 2007
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Date: 12/10/2007 | Place: Aéroport de Marseille-Provence - France | Features
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Expedition ('au pôle Nord) Pole Air Ship led by Jean Louis Etienne, 1st part - April 2007
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On the Russian Barneo Ice Station (located at the north pole, more exactly at 89.6 ° N average), French and German scientists came up with four divers professionals calibrate their measuring instruments under the ice for the Pole Airship expedition, whose journey transpolar airship was planned for spring 2008. Weighted with a specific measuring instrument called EM...
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Ref.: 20070401 (556) |
Date: 11/05/2007 | Place: Station polaire russe de Barnéo - Pôle Nord | Features
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Le sexe à Pompei : aerial photos and ground
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The Pompeii Brothel reopened its doors. The erotic frescoes adorn the walls, which served as a catalog of sexual services offered by the institution, annually attract over three million visitors. In part two, numerous anthology of sexual representations disseminated in the ancient city.
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Ref.: 20061101 (537) |
Date: 15/11/2006 | Place: Pompeii - Italy | Features
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The Tour de France (cycling) 2006 : aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon)
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Aerial photos and mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) on the roads of the Tour de France.
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(90 pictures) |
Ref.: 20060901 (527) |
Date: 14/09/2006 | Place: France | Features
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Provins : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The city of Provins : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground of a medieval site listed in World Heritage by Unesco and among the best preserved in France
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(35 pictures) |
Ref.: 20060602 (479) |
Date: 14/06/2006 | Place: Provins - France | Features
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Dubaï : worksites of Burj Khalifa (highest tower in the world), the Palm and the World. Aerial photos and ground
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World’s highest tower, huge off-shore building sites, giant malls with indoor ski slopes, etc.: aerial photos and ground. In just a few years, the tiny emirate has become the object of a vertiginous economic, real-estate and tourism boom, probably without parallel in recent history. A selection of seven sites among the most interesting and spectacular.
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Ref.: 20060601 (480) |
Date: 16/06/2006 | Place: Dubaï - Emirats Arabes Unis | Features
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Stadiums and cities of football world cup 2006. Aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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Football Stadiums : aerial photographs, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground of sports fields and cities where the matches took place in the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany.
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Ref.: 20060501 (477) |
Date: 16/05/2006 | Place: Berlin, Munich, Dortmund, Frankfort, Hambourg, Gelsenkirchen, Stuttgart, Cologne, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Hanovre, Kaiserslautern e - Allemagne | Features
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The world longest bridge and world largest harbour in Shanghai : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon...
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Shanghai has become the first port in the world by creating the giant deepwater port of Yangshan islands. To connect it to the shore, the Chinese built the Donghai bridge (length: 32.5 km), which became the world's longest above sea. Aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground.
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Ref.: 20051101 (465) |
Date: 28/11/2005 | Place: Shanghai - Chine | Features
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Northern France belfries (Unesco list) : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The belfries of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy were classified by World Heritage of UNESCO in 2005. Aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground. Built between the eleventh and the seventeenth century, these twenty-three belfries illustrate the architectural styles of Roman, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. Originally, a belfr...
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Ref.: 20050902 (463) |
Date: 14/09/2005 | Place: Abbeville, Aire sur la Lys, Amiens, Armentières, Arras, Bailleul, Bergues, Béthune, Boulogne, Calais, Cambrai, Comines, etc. - France | Features
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Carnac stones, Castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg, Villa Savoye Le Corbusier, Castle of Chaumont, Abbey of Saint Andre in Lavaudieu : ...
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These remarkable sites of French heritage have been offered for sale by the state. Aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground. Carnac stones : photos 1 to 10. Chateau Haut-Koenigsbourg: Photos 11 to 30. Villa Savoye Le Corbusier: photos 31 50. Chateau de Chaumont: Photos 51 to 65. Abbey of Saint Andre in Lavaudieu: Photos 66...
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Ref.: 20050901 (448) |
Date: 14/09/2005 | Place: Orschwiller, Bas Rhin (67); Lavaudieu, Haute Loire (43); Chaumont sur Loire, Indre et Loire (37); Carnac, Morbihan (56); Poissy - France | Features
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Chateau de Versailles : the rebirth of Bosquet des Trois Fontaines
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With financial support from foreign associations, the architects of Versailles were able to find the archives, then redraw the plans to rebuild identically this iconic site of the Gardens of Versailles, which had disappeared for nearly three centuries
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Ref.: 20050502 (416) |
Date: 02/06/2005 | Place: Versailles - France | Features
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A Swiss glacier packed due to global warming
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The swiss resort of Andermatt has been packing the upper glacier Gemsstock to slow the decline, of about five meters per year. For twenty years, all of Alpine glaciers are victims of melting, probably due to global warming.
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Ref.: 20050501 (413) |
Date: 10/05/2005 | Place: Andermatt - Switzerland | Features
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Brachiosaurus (largest land animal of all time) and other dinosaurs of Mongolia
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"Dinosaurs" was an exhibition which first presentation was held in Vigo, Spain, in late 2004. It then toured Europe for over a year. It presented an exclusive collection of fossils from Mongolia, dated 80 million years. Among the skeletons exposed, a faithful replica of the largest land animal of all time : Brachiosaurus.
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Ref.: 20050201 (414) |
Date: 05/12/2004 | Place: Vigo, Galice - Spain | Features
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The Millau viaduct, highest bridge in the world : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled balloon) and ground
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The Millau viaduct : aerial photographs, mid-height (made with remote controlled tethered balloon) and ground of the bridge with three world records : the road deck on which the car is moving at 270 meters height. It also has the record height of tower, 343 meters above the ground (the Eiffel Tower can pass below). Finally, it is the bridge with the longest cable-s...
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Ref.: 20050101 (376) |
Date: 13/01/2005 | Place: Millau - France | Features
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The Spitzberg archipelago : aerial photos and ground
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Svalbard: With its special status, that territory on the borders of the Arctic is both a preserved natural area, a scientific laboratory of high technology and a mine site frozen in another era. Aerial photos and ground.
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Ref.: 20041201 (388) |
Date: 10/07/2003 | Features
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The Pyramids of Egypt : aerial photos and ground
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The pyramids of Egypt, 4000 years after their construction, still fascinate humankind. Aerial and ground monuments that tell the life and reign of thirty pharaohs of ancient Egyptian Empire.
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Ref.: 20041101 (378) |
Date: 01/11/2003 | Place: Le Caire (environs) - Egypte | Features
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The Olympic Games of antiquity : aerial photos and ground
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Aerial photos and ground on the trail of the ancient Olympics games. For twelve centuries, Greece was the victim of incessant rivalries between city-states. Nevertheless, every four years a miracle occurred : the Olympic Truce : union of body and spirit in honor of the gods, the celebration of the Games were respected by all. At the crossroads of mythology, physica...
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Ref.: 20040701 (382) |
Date: 01/06/2004 | Place: Olympie, Delphes, Athènes - Grèce | Features
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The Champions of Olympia, reconstitution of the ancient Olympic Games. 1st Part (training)
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To mark the return of the Olympics games in their homeland, a team of producers, directors, historians, archaeologists, coaches and athletes from six european countries took up the challenge of a unique "historical -sport" experience : a reconstruction of the ancient Olympic Games. Back with pictures (here, training of athletes) to the cradle of Olympism. Here, rec...
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Ref.: 20040604 (387) |
Date: 04/06/2004 | Place: Olympie - Grèce | Features
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The Champions of Olympia, reconstitution of the ancient Olympic Games. 2nd Part (competition)
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To mark the return of the Olympics games in their homeland, a team of producers, directors, historians, archaeologists, coaches and athletes from six european countries took up the challenge of a unique "historical -sport" experience : a reconstruction of the ancient Olympic Games. Back with pictures (here, training of athletes) to the cradle of Olympism. Here, rec...
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Date: 03/06/2004 | Place: Olympie - Grèce | Features
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The Champions of Olympia, reconstitution of ancient Olympic Games. 3rd Part (portraits)
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To mark the return of the Olympics games in their homeland, a team of producers, directors, historians, archaeologists, coaches and athletes from six european countries took up the challenge of a unique "historical -sport" experience : a reconstruction of the ancient Olympic Games. Back with pictures to the cradle of Olympism. Here, portraits of athletes, coaches a...
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Ref.: 20040602 (386) |
Date: 17/01/2005 | Place: Olympie - Grèce | Features
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On the trail of Userkarê, the lost Pharaoh : aerial photos and ground
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The pharaoh Ouserkarê reigned very few years during the sixth dynasty of ancient egyptian empire. On the plateau of Saqqara, the team of the french egyptologist Vassil Dobrev has unearthed a necropolis dating back 4300 years which should solve the riddle of the mysterious king, whose historians and researchers know almost nothing.
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Ref.: 20031001 (377) |
Date: 01/10/2003 | Place: Le Caire (environs) - Egypte | Features
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Our ancestors the Celts (Gauls) : aerial photos and ground on french and italian archeolological sites
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New aspects of life still unknown to our distant ancestors, the Celts (commonly called Gauls), have been discovered by french and italian archaeologists. Discoveries that are accelerated with the drilling of railway TGV East Paris-Metz-Nancy and the launching of an excavation site near Bologna.
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Ref.: 20030901 (380) |
Date: 01/08/2003 | Place: Paris (environs), Metz (environs), Bologne (environs) - France - Italie | Features
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Vancouver, host city of 2010 winter Olympic Games
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Vancouver, description of a city that has struck a balance between its immense port, a melted population, hi-tech industries and good natural environment.
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Ref.: 20030401 (373) |
Date: 01/04/2003 | Place: Vancouver - Canada | Features
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Saint Petersbourg : aerial photos and ground
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St. Petersburg, former capital of Czarist Russia, is getting a makeover. Aerial photos and ground to mark the tercentenary of its founding by Czar Peter the Great.
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Ref.: 20030201 (371) |
Date: 01/02/2003 | Place: St Petersbourg - Russie | Features
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On the trail of the Blue Bear
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Ref.: 20021001 (370) |
Date: 01/10/2002 | Place: Alaska, USA | Features
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Chateaux of Loire Valley : aerial photos, mid-height (made with remote controlled paragliding) and ground
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Ref.: 20020701 (367) |
Date: 01/07/2002 | Place: Chambord, Chenonceaux, Brissac-Quincé - France | Features
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The Petronas Towers, former highest buildings in the world : aerial photos and ground
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Ref.: 20020601 (397) |
Date: 31/01/2005 | Place: Kuala Lumpur - Malaisie | Features
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The writer Jean Auel visit the caves of Lascaux and the Fond de Gaume
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Ref.: 20020401 (677) |
Date: 22/04/2002 | Place: Les Eyzies de Tayac - France | Features
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Abel and Toumaï : the man's ancestors are from West Africa (aerial photos and ground)
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Ref.: 20020301 (541) |
Date: 02/01/2007 | Place: Désert du Djourab - Tchad | Features
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The library of Alexandria and Cleopatra Papyrus
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Ref.: 20011001 (366) |
Date: 01/10/2001 | Place: Alexandrie - Egypte | Features
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Easter Island : the vanished memory of the civilization Rapa Nui
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Ref.: 20010301 (365) |
Date: 01/03/2001 | Place: Ile de Pâques - Chili | Features
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Baluchiterium : the largest land mammal of all time found in the tribal territories of Pakistan
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After 6 years of research in a desert closed to foreigners for nearly a century, a French team of scientists unearthed and pieced together the largest land mammal of all time. It's name : Baluchitherium. Nearly 6 meters tall and weighing 20,000 kilos, the creature roamed a lush jungle over 30 million years ago. Interview with the expeditions leader, paleontologist ...
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Ref.: 20000201 (364) |
Date: 10/01/2005 | Place: Dera Bugti - Pakistan | Features
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Zeugma: the last days of the ancient city facing the Birecik dam on Euphrate river
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Ref.: 19990601 (359) |
Date: 01/06/1999 | Place: Zeugma - Turquie | Features
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The geoglyphs of Nazca and Atacama and the religious center of Cahuachi (aerial photos and ground)
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Ref.: 19981201 (379) |
Date: 13/01/2005 | Place: Nasca et Atacama - Pérou et Chili | Features
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Pompeii and other ancient cities around Vesuvio : aerial photos and ground
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Ref.: 19980501 (362) |
Date: 10/01/2005 | Place: Pompeï - Italie | Features
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The Mummies of the people found in the Egyptian desert
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Four french scientists discovered in the mountains of the Libyan desert mummies people over the age of Christ. Their extraordinary state of preservation allows researchers to apply innovative techniques such as radiography to rediscover the daily lives of farmers and egyptian soldiers two thousand years ago.
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Ref.: 19971201 (361) |
Date: 01/12/1997 | Place: Kharga - Egypte | Features
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The Chateau of Versailles : aerial photographs, half-height (made with a pod truck) and ground
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Ref.: 19970801 (374) |
Date: 12/01/2005 | Place: Versailles - France | Features
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Alexandria : ancient remains and modern city (aerial photos and ground)
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Ref.: 19970702 (358) |
Date: 01/07/1997 | Place: Alexandrie - Egypte | Features
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Jean-Yves Empereur : portraits of the archaeologist in Alexandria
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Ref.: 19970701 (363) |
Date: 01/07/1998 | Place: Alexandrie - Egypte | Features
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The Necropolis of Alexandria, the largest city of the dead in antiquity : aerial photos and ground
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Ref.: 19970602 (360) |
Date: 01/06/1997 | Place: Alexandrie - Egypte | Features
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Balah, 6, Necropolis citizen
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Ref.: 19970601 (375) |
Date: 01/08/1998 | Place: Alexandrie - Egypte | Features
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria : discovery of the seventh wonder of the ancient world (underwater photos, aerial and ground)
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Discovery of the remains of the seventh wonder of the ancient world with a french archaeological team led by Jean-Yves Empereur and thirty divers. Three months of underwater and land reporting of excavations in the port of Alexandria, the identification of two thousand blocks and the exit from the water of sphinxes, obelisks and fragments of the ancient lighthouse.
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Ref.: 19951001 (355) |
Date: 01/10/1995 | Place: Alexandrie - Egypte | Features
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Antarctica: the Expedition Erebus led by Jean Louis Etienne
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Ref.: 19940301 (351) |
Date: 01/03/1997 | Place: Ile de Ross - Antarctique | Features
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Saint Helena, Napoleon's exile island
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Ref.: 19931101 (350) |
Date: 01/11/1993 | Place: Jamestown - Sainte Hélène | Features
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The Firemen desert (Gulf War) in Kuwait
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Ref.: 19910401 (356) |
Date: 01/04/1991 | Place: Al-Ahmadi, Koweît City - Koweït | Features
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Date: 26/08/2011 | Features
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