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We were driving through Iceland and pulled over in the middle of nowhere. From the road it was a nice view, nothing more. Then I sent the drone up and the whole place changed: turquoise rivers cutting through black ground, and one lonely road crossing all of it. I’d been standing right there a few minutes earlier, with no idea any of that was under my feet. It made me think about how many places like this we walk past without a drone, not because they’re hidden, but because from the ground there’s no way to see them. Most of the landscape we’ve been through, we’ve only seen the part that fits at eye level. How many of these places have I walked right past?