Aerial views of India by drone - in pictures
Photographer Amos Chapple's remarkable aerial views of India were shot by attaching his camera to a 'quadcopter' drone
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A knot of fishing boats at the entrance to Sassoon Dock, Mumbai. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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The emperor Humayun's tomb, commissioned by his widow. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Known to the locals as 'Hill 3' this knoll jutting above Mumbai's northern slums is no more valuable than the land below. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Access to running water, which the hill lacks, is far more valuable than any view. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Kolkata's glittering memorial to Queen Victoria; in the foreground is a statue of King Edward VII, who died before the monument to his mother was completed. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Jama Masjid, the heart of Islam in India. The red sandstone structure was built under the orders of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who also commissioned the Taj Mahal. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Two wrestlers practising the ancient Indian sport of Kushti in a pit they had hacked into the ground two hours before. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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The Taj Mahal, with the Yamuna river snaking away towards its source in the Himalayas. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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The Taj Mahal as the day's first tourists trickle through the gates. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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The Lotus Temple, dotted with pigeons at sunrise. Designed by an Iranian exile, the building serves as the centre of the Bahai'i faith in Delhi. Photograph: Amos Chapple
