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Lush island landscape in Polish lake captured from above

By Bethan Ackerley

19 February 2020

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Kacper Kowalski

Photographer

THIS speckled diamond looks like it belongs in an Impressionist painting. In fact, it is a photo of a small island in a lake in northern Poland.

The image comes from , a project by aerial photographer Kacper Kowalski about the complex relationship between humans and nature. To shoot his photos, Kowalski takes to the air in a paramotor or a gyrocopter, which he barely steers to allow the wind to dictate the direction. He sticks to the skies of Pomerania, surrounding his home in Gdynia, and rarely strays more than 150 kilometres from where…

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