Here's an aerial shot of The Magic Castle, a sorta-exclusive private club in Hollywood to which I belong. If you want to get a neat picture like this to put on your blog, it's easy: Just get a digital camera and rent a helicopter and pilot. Have him fly over whatever you want to photograph while you hang out the door of the chopper and snap away.
Or I guess you could do it the easy way via the new Windows Live Local feature which offers maps of the world. For many areas (mostly urban), you can click into a "bird's eye view" and get aerial photos from all four directions. The pictures, at least in my area, seem to be about five years old. (I notice that a market building near me is vacant in the photo. Whole Foods moved in there about four years ago.) The "locate an address" feature does not work flawlessly — most of the ones I've tried have been off by a block or so — but it's worth the effort of figuring out where you should be. Some of the visuals are quite astounding.