It’s New York as you’ve never seen it before – looking tiny.
These photographs, by Jasper Leonard, appear to have reduced the Big Apple to a miniature city.
The effect – a dazzling bird’s-eye perspective – is thanks to a photographic technique called ‘tilt shift’.
Leonard used it to transform Manhattan into a swirling ant-hill of miniature people after taking pictures over 20 days from rooftops, helicopters and drones.
The photographer, from Antwerp, Belgium, said that ‘looking out over New York was a breath-taking experience’.
The best of the photographs that he took on his trip will appear in a new book, New York Resized, published by Lannoo Publishers, out on November 20. Here MailOnline Travel offers a tantalising sneak peek of the stunning tome.
These photographs, by Jasper Leonard, appear to have reduced the Big Apple to a miniature city
The effect – a dazzling bird’s-eye perspective – is thanks to a photographic technique called ‘tilt shift’
Leonard used a tilt-shift technique to transform Manhattan into a swirling ant-hill of miniature people after taking pictures over 20 days from rooftops, helicopters and drones
Leonard, from Antwerp, Belgium, said that ‘looking out over New York was a breath-taking experience’
The best of Leonard’s photographs that he took on his trip will appear in a new book, New York Resized , published by Lannoo Publishers , out on November 20
In 2016 Leonard released his first and second photo book Antwerp Resized and Belgium Resized
New York’s intense clusters of skyscrapers look especially mesmerising thanks to Leonard’s trickery
A lone boat crosses the Hudson in another dazzling photograph by Leonard
Leonard was awarded a Master in Visual Arts at Antwerp’s Sint Lucas college in 2010
Leonard said that he took 13,000 pictures altogether during his odyssey to the Big Apple
The tilt-shift technique, Leonard explains, makes natural scenes suddenly seem orchestrated
Leonard stresses that not a single image was faked, that he ‘just let the city run its course and I documented it’
Leonard’s book contains quotes about New York from the likes of Ayn Rand and Alistair Cooke
Food for thought: A grocery store is given the fascinating tilt-shift treatment by Leonard
New Yorkers relax in the sunshine, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’re all models
Leonard’s new book contains fascinating pictures and thought-provoking quotes about New York