21 July 2014
Photographer Amos Chapple's remarkable aerial views of India were shot by attaching his camera to a 'quadcopter' drone
A knot of fishing boats at the entrance to Sassoon Dock, Mumbai. Photograph: Amos Chapple
The emperor Humayun's tomb, commissioned by his widow. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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
Access to running water, which the hill lacks, is far more valuable than any view. Photograph: Amos ChappleKolkata'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
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 ChappleTwo wrestlers practising the ancient Indian sport of Kushti in a pit they had hacked into the ground two hours before. Photograph: Amos Chapple
The Taj Mahal, with the Yamuna river snaking away towards its source in the Himalayas. Photograph: Amos ChappleThe Taj Mahal as the day's first tourists trickle through the gates. Photograph: Amos Chapple
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
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