Best Shots: Aerial Photography from Reuters (23 photos)

Every year, Reuters publishes a selection of the most significant photographs of the past year, carefully selected by the agency's editors. We present the best photographs taken from above, because from a bird's eye view, everything appears larger and more majestic.







People on inflatable boats on Lake Lucerne. Sisikon, Switzerland, August 5, 2018. (Photo by Denis Balibau/Reuters)

Immigrant children, many of whom were separated from their parents under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, stand at the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18, 2018. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)



Flower fields near Keukenhof Park, also known as the Garden of Europe, in Lisse, Netherlands, April 20, 2018. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)



An aerial view of the area devastated by the Palu earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 1, 2018. (Photo by Hafidz Mubarak A./Reuters/Antara Foto)



A mahout bathes his elephant in the dirty waters of the Yamuna River. New Delhi, India, February 6, 2018. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)



Carpets are laid out in fields to soften their colors in the scorching sun. Döşemealti, a city in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, Turkey, August 10, 2018. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)



Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles bought by Volkswagen AG are seen in a deserted auto yard near Victorville, California, on March 28, 2018. The company paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 vehicles, according to a recent court ruling, and currently stores thousands of them across the country. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)



Coral reefs around an islet on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland. Near Rockhampton, Australia, November 15, 2018. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)



A woman sunbathes on a pier. The Adriatic coast in Brela, Croatia, April 28, 2018. (Photo by Antonio Bronik/ Reuters)



Lava flows during the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, June 5, 2018. (Photo by Terray Sylvester/ Reuters)



A farmer stands in the middle of a dry dam on his property west of Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, June 3, 2018. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)



A floating iceberg near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, June 24, 2018. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)



A bicycle dump in a demolished area in Shanghai, China, July 8, 2018. (Photo by Ali Song/ Reuters)



Captain James Pugh of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, views British artist Rob Herd's installation "Shrouds of the Somme," which consists of 72,396 figures of soldiers who died in the Battle of the Somme. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, November 7, 2018. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)



The Camp Fire burns near Paradise, California. This image is from a NASA Landsat satellite, November 8, 2018. (NASA photo via Reuters)



Vacationers on the beach in Natal, Brazil, November 20, 2018. (Photo by Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)



Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church is seen during flooding caused by Hurricane Florence in Lumberton, North Carolina, U.S., September 17, 2018. (Photo by Jason Micek/Reuters)



Lava destroys homes in the Kapoho area, east of Pahoa, during the ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, June 5, 2018. (Photo by Terray Sylvester/Reuters)



Burnt forest near the village of Monchique, Portugal, August 8, 2018. (Photo: Pedro Nunes/ Reuters)



People on the beach on the shore of Lake Silbersee (Silver Lake). Haltern, Germany, August 4, 2018. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/ Reuters)



Lava flows in Leilani Estates during the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, June 5, 2018. (Photo by Terray Sylvester/ Reuters)



Members of the "Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls" group form a "castell," or "human castle," during the Castell Competition in Tarragona, Spain, October 7, 2018. (Photo: Albert Ghia/Reuters)