25 aerial images of the pandemic-hit world

Beautiful with or without locomotion? Aerial view of Sheik Zayed road, Dubai, following the outbreak of Covid-19.

Human brain is so advanced as to create something that never before existed, it is a matter of time to see if our wit will help us take over the virus that has pushed most of us back home. A capture of Place de l’Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe during lockdown in France.

Small luxury yachts are seen banked at Krilo Jesenice marina in Croatia.

Extravagance in perilous times. The energy consumption for lighting up this empty street of Times Square is questionable, when there is a disparity in availability of resources between the rich and poor to survive pandemic.

Never even in off season, did streets of Santorini Island look beautiful as a pearl and white as salt. An aerial shot of the Oia street in Santorini, Greece.

Safe keeping camps in the square beside the city hall in San Francisco fill the void left by home-ridden crowd. The tents are placed away from each other following the social distancing norms.

Japan is not far behind in aesthetics. Yokohama’s roller coaster ride seems as though a comb jelly has invaded the city, moving forward to conquer all of Yokohama.

The shadows of the holy cross mounted on graves, during the pandemic, fail to make the graveyard look lifeless. A visual of Parque Trauma Cemetery in Manaus, Brazil.

The resemblance to English huts from the settlements back in 80s is uncanny. The abandoned streets of Lille in France show how architecture at different places is different but can be traced back to similar origin.

The top shot of Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro doesn’t just display but speaks silence. The eerie tranquillity is very unlikely of the place that houses thousands of people during show-time.