Airplane photographs will undoubtedly be widely used in certain fields of advertising. Architects and real estate agents may be expected to display their wares by the aid of aerial views. A well-planned country estate or golf course, or a suburban development (Fig. [191]), can be shown with a completeness, both as to environment and stage of progress which no other form of representation can approach. A sea-side resort can now show the extent and grouping of its natural and artificial amusement features in a single picture (Fig. [192]). Even the extent of its bathing beach under water is revealed to the aerial photographer (Fig. [193]). Real estate agents can utilize aerial photographic maps of cities to great advantage. On these their properties can be pointed out, with the nature of their surroundings shown at a glance, together with their relation to transportation, schools, churches, shopping districts, parks, or factories. The future purchaser of lots in a distant boom town will no longer be satisfied with a map outlining the streets with high-sounding names. He will demand an authentic aerial photograph, showing the actual number of houses under construction, the streets, gutters and sidewalks already laid, the size and planting of trees.
Fig. 194.—Mt. Vernon from the air.
Fig. 195.—A contrast in roofs. The Capitol retains its individuality, while the White House loses all character when seen from above.
The study of landscape gardening is another field for which the aerial photograph is peculiarly fitted. A collection of oblique pictures of the châteaux and palaces of Europe showing their approaches and grounds, or of the historic estates of our own South, (Fig. [194]), will be worth more to the prospective designer of a country estate than maps and ground pictures can ever be. Closely allied to landscape gardening is city planning, for which the aerial map will be quite indispensable. The appearance of a city from the air may indeed become a matter of pride to its inhabitants, and not only the arrangement of streets and parks, but even the character of the roofs of the buildings, be the subject of study (Fig. [195]).
Fig. 196.—An aviation field under construction; early stage.
Engineers and constructors will depend more and more on preliminary photographic surveys as a basis for locating their operations. At the later stages of their work they will use aerial photographs for recording progress. Periodic photographs of buildings in process of construction, such as are now made from the ground, are much more illustrative when made from the air. Only from above is it possible to obtain in a single picture the progress of the complete project, such as the construction of an aviation field (Figs. [196] and [197]) or of a shipyard. The building of large structures—bridges, hotels, ships on the stocks—particularly demands aerial views if the foreground is not to eclipse the center of real interest.
