Photographer Jeffrey Milstein explores residential and commercial neighbourhoods, parks and recreation spots, and industrial districts of LA and New York using a high-resolution camera from a helicopter. Here: Judge Harry Pregerson interchange, Los Angeles. The stack interchange, which combines the Glenn M Anderson and Harbor freeways, was opened in 1993 and is 40 metres high at its highest point. (Photo by Jeffrey Milstein/The Guardian)





This photo taken on November 13, 2017 shows a boat escorting a stranded humpback whale back to deeper waters in Qidong in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





General view of a snow-covered children's playground during heavy snowfall in Huarte, Navarra, Spain, 01 December 2017. The Spanish territory is experiencing a polar cold spell with a general fall of temperatures and the first autumn's snowfalls in many northern regions. (Photo by Jesus Diges/EPA/EFE)





In this September 4, 2017 photo, high-rise apartment buildings surround the Huantinamarca pre-Columbian archeological site, along Pacifico Avenue in Lima, Peru. A small group of archeologists and officials are stepping up efforts to preserve the sites being squeezed by urban sprawl. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





A new residential area is seen outskirts the city on December 6, 2017 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by David Ramos – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)





Snow-covered trees stand around the Eibsee lake near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, December 6, 2017. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)





Hot air balloons glide in the sky during a trip over historical Cappadocia region, in Nevsehir, Turkey on October 28, 2017. (Photo by Murat Oner Tas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)





In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. A showdown is looming in the nation's capital over whether to open America's largest wildlife refuge to oil drilling. A budget measure approved by the Republican-controlled Congress allows lawmakers to pursue legislation that would allow drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge takes up an area nearly the size of South Carolina in Alaska's northeast corner. (Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP Photo)





Aerial view of pond cypress at Qinglongwan Forest Park near Ningguo, China on November 26, 2017. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An aerial view of snowy Bolu Mountain is seen on November 22, 2017 in Duzce, Turkey. (Photo by Omer Urer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)





An aerial view of a round residential building in Dovzhenko Street in Moscow, Russia on November 27, 2017. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS)





An aerial view shows the R257 “Yenisei” federal highway in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia on September 21, 2017. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





An aerial picture taken on November 29, 2017 in Moscow shows the intersection between the People's Militia street and the Marshal Zhukov Prospect. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/AFP Photo)





Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm on the Burbo Flats in Liverpool Bay, operated by DONG Energy, is pictured from the the window of an aircraft flying over the Irish Sea, off the west coast of northern England, on November 8, 2017. British energy supplier SSE and German-owned Npower said Wednesday they have agreed to merge their businesses that heat and light up millions of UK households. SSE, the second largest energy supplier in Britain, said it would spin off its household energy and services business and combine it with Npower, the British arm of Germany's Innogy. (Photo by Paul Ellis/AFP Photo)





432 Park Avenue, New York. The 425.5-metre-high skyscraper, which cost $1.25bn to build, is the tallest residential building in the world. (Photo by Jeffrey Milstein/The Guardian)





Dozens of hot air balloons take flight during the International Balloon Festival 2017 in Leon, Guanajuato state, Mexico, 18 November 2017. The festival takes place from 17 to 20 November. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz Basurto/EPA/EFE)





A paraglider has a land-based practice session on snow near Semsales, western Switzerland on December 3, 2017. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





A man walk on a sand-barrier, at the southern areas of Dead Sea near Ein Bokek, Israel, 22 November 2017. (Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA/EFE)





A tree surrounded by snow is seen near Chavannes-les-Forts, western Switzerland, on December 3, 2017. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite captured this image of smoke from wildfires in the US state of California on 9 October 2017. Wildfires broke out in parts of the state on 8 October 2017 around Napa Valley, and the smoke was spread by strong northeasterly winds. (Photo by ESA)