Serving up aerial photos and skyline views of world cities on the internet since 1998
Housing 12,000+ photos from Aalborg to Zurich and many cities in between!
Update 7.50 - October 26, 2006

All non-photographic content ©1998-2006 Sean Breazeal, Salt Lake City, Utah
All photographs are assumed to be copyrighted by their photographer and no commercial use of them can be allowed on any website. No photo may be used in a printed paper form for any publication whatsoever.

These photos are not mine! I did not take them and they MAY NOT be used by ANY company, magazine, commercial website, or any other use other than personal enjoyment on a private computer.

I do not own the images, I am not a stock photo company, and I cannot give permission to commercially use them. You'll have to ask the original photographer. Read the FAQ on how to find and contact them. If you simply want to download some for desktop wallpaper, a school report, or another completely personal use, be my guest!

If you, Webshots users and city forum posters especially, find a personal photo of yours on this site that I downloaded and you do not want it also displayed here, e-mail me at the address below and it will be deleted ASAP. I have tried to be as diligent as possible in asking permission but I also, in my zeal and excitement at finding great photos, no doubt have forgotten to ask a number of people.

EVEN MORE WEB URLs FOR MORE CITY PHOTOS!
List consolidated and ordered, giving over 1180 URLs to photo sites I've gathered from.

LOOKING FOR SOME FANTASTIC VIEWS OF ENGLISH TOWNS AND CITIES?

Mr. Webb has placed many thousands of oblique aerial photos over dozens of English towns and cities on his site for free viewing at a generous size and the opportunity to buy much larger originals. Much of middle and northern England is represented along with a bit of Wales and some scattered German cities. It's definitely worth your visit. The page on Manchester has far and away the largest representation and coverage of that city than any page on the internet.
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Other Sites worth visiting








Thanks to the following individuals who have graciously submitted their photos or gave special permission for me to use them. I've probably missed a few folks, I apologize! The star (*) denotes a person who has gone above and beyond the call of duty in aiding me by sending dozens of photos from numerous places:

Wouter Adamse - (*) Augusto Cesar Baptista Areal - Matt Branham - Sumon Chakrabarti - Vincent Chan - Bernard Cloutier - Devin Cohen - João da Costa (*) Sourav Dasgupta - Michael Davis - (*) Marco Deluca - Jean-Michel Delebecque - (*) Chris DeWolf - John Dickins - Mauricio Duque Boris Eryomin - Felipe Fernandez - Eric Floyd Jonathan Fobear - Alejandro Vasquez Gaete - Louis Georgakakis - Jim Goddard - Arjan van Grol Ken Grunstra - Thomas Hawk - Arthur van den Heuval - Marcus Hoy - Masaya Inaba -Damijan Jeric - (*) Teoh Ren Jie - William Johnson - Riste Kalinov - Andy Kay - Bill Kammermeier - Pauli Kruhse - (*) Christian Lantadilla - (*) Dylan LeBlanc - Keith Lawrence - Chris Losinger Dan MacQueen - Leonard Mamchenkov - Max at nevadamax.com - Bob Nagel - Tiago Pedro - Ronald Pineda - Dale Ray - R. Ros - (*) Lee Rothman - Bob Sacha - Elberth Santos - Wolfgang Schunn - Jeff Schwartzmann - Gilberto Simon - Denis Solovyov - Lee Sojot - Jesus Antonio Soto - (*) Chris Szabla - Rob Verhulst - Fernando Villanueva - (*) Renaldo Vives - Waxweazle

7.07 Update
Claire Bourdois - Koen Butink - Sumon Chakrabarti - Heidi Farrow - Farukkap - (*) Warren Loveridge - Dave Lovering - David Nording - Andy Oakes - Jeroen Pater - Caecilia Piere - Denis Rodrigues - Massimo Schiavetta - Ross Tabak - Josh Wiltshire - Ken Stewart - Santiago Tamayo - Yulia Weit(?)

7.50 Update
Raymond Blom - Cameron Owens - Roland from Chelm, Poland - Bunny Saranita & David Umstead

Thanks also to the following individuals who pointed out excellent links I have missed, pointed out errors and bugs, or politely asked me to remove photos they didn't want on the site:

Carol Brown
Rand Carter
Ced Chen
Stephen Dudley
Jonathan Enns
Chuck Fulton
Victor Hernandez
Greg Hildner
Keith Kings
Jeff in Las Vegas
Joeymeg
Raphael Lima
Herly Lopes
Michal Matyjewicz
Miek Moncrieff
Kostas Patouras
Douglas Pulsipher
Sam Sautter
Mark Schnitzius
Jose Sousa
Chris Stephenson
Mohamed Suldan
Ron Weatherred
Cameron Webster
Sterling Wilkins

I'm honored to have won the 2000 and 2001 Best Skyline Site award from voters at Ryan Ramsey's The Scrapers, a part of Richmond City Watch.

WHAT'S CHANGED?

7.50 - October 26, 2006
Major upload of nearly 1400 images covering the world. 190+ Russia alone.

7.08 - Dec. 1, 2005
Uploaded 180 new photos of dozens of Japanese cities collected from Webshots and other sites, see the updated Weburls.txt file for more Japan photos

7.07
Uploaded 25 recently e-mailed photos, including some beautiful new panoramas from New Zealand

7.05
Small changes to file locations and Honduras typo corrected. East Timor now has Dili in it. The Kenya photos hiding in Kazakhstan have been moved.

Again, if you find photos on this site that belong to you and they are mislabelled or you do not want them here: E-mail me at either of the following address and they'll be amended or deleted the minute I read the message. They are not here for any commercial purpose! I don't make a dime on this site, quite the contrary. I'm not here to make people mad or play anarchist with copyright law, just share my love of urban scenery and form with those of similar interests. Other questions about the site can be found in the FAQ (click on the button above)

My old comments e-mail address has been thoroughly annihilated with spam (500+ per day). Please note the new address below.

Send comments/questions to feedback-(at)-worldcityphotos.org
(copy and paste the text and replace the ''-(at)-'' with @ in your mail program)

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• Most hits in a day: 7,005 (November 23, 2004)
  
• Most hits in a month: 86,619 (March 2004)
  
• Most commonly referring search engines:
  Google (68%)
  Yahoo (16%)
  MSN (6%)
  AOL (2%)
  All others (8%), including Altavista, Dogpile, Metacrawler, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos
  
• Most common query terms:
  "photos" (this is unbelievable...just the word 'photos' puts me that far up in Google!)
  "worldcityphotos"
  "world city"
  "city skylines"
  "city photos", "city photo", "city skyline"
  "world cities"
  "photographs of cities"
  
• Search engines supply only 24% of referrals to the site, the vast majority of other referrers are bloggers and bulletin boards. This is in part why I have had to initiate a ban on direct image links.
  
• 57% of visitors are on the site for two minutes or less, and 96% are here less than 5 minutes.
  
• The average visitor views just one page (the photo they clicked a link for), 30% of souls hang around to view a couple more pages, then leave. 7% of visitors love the site so much they view at least 10 pages. A few naughty, evil bandwidth abusers, and likely photo pirates, download THE ENTIRE F'ING SITE, which is rude beyond mere words.
  
• The average day sees 80% of the site's traffic from new visitors, only 20% are returnees.
  
• Heaviest traffic times are by far during work and school hours, you naughty slackers ;-). Most people visit from 8-9 AM and 1-4 PM local time. Insomniacs also visit as there is a distinct spike from 3-5 AM local time.
  
• Countries most often visiting are (in order): USA, Brazil, UK, France, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Poland, Turkey, Portugal, China, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Greece...on a typical day visitors from at least 90 countries visit.
  
• Rarest countries to visit the site in 2004 were: Armenia, Cambodia, Chad, Fiji, Gibraltar, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Montserrat(!), Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zimbabwe...just one visit each.
  
• Not counting unknowns, 93% of site visitors run Windows, including some poor desperate people STILL running Windows 3.1! Macs account for 5%, Linux just 1%, everyone else combined make up the final 1%.