Olson said their home was still standing as of Tuesday, when they saw an aerial shot of its roof line and that of their neighbor.

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Some of the group's ideas for jazzing up Senator Sominex were deemed too creative. (That's always a hazard when you are culling advice from a world where adult diapers are hawked as a fashion statement.) The campaign reportedly rejected doing an aerial shot of a giant pair of shoes to conjure up the former Knick as tall and Lincolnesque.

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Aerial shots of the elephant herd, for example, were shot using a gyro-stabilized Cineflex aerial camera system mounted to the bottom of a helicopter.

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Our photographer shot, with night vision, pictures of the aerial bombardment from 81-millimeter mortar rounds, from 150-millimeter Howitzer artillery.

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