ROTHBURY, MI - Sometimes to get the entire story, you need to use a different perspective.

Like hundreds of feet in the air. In an effort to capture Electric Forest 2016 from a different angle, MLive Multimedia Intern Allison Farrand took a handful of photographs from high above the Double JJ Ranch via airplane.

The photos offer a unique chance to see Electric Forest from above. The photographs show expansive tent cities covering a sea of grass and massive, illuminated stages flanked by thousands of festival-goers.

Approximately 40,000 people are in the small West Michigan community of Rothbury for the event.

Electric Forest began on June 23 and continues until early Monday morning. Acts will take the stage on a nearly-continuous basis until about 2:30 a.m. Today's headliners include The String Cheese Incident, Bassnectar, Porter Robinson and Flosstradamus.

Brandon Champion is a journalist for MLive.com. Email him at bchampio@mlive.com and follow him Facebook and Twitter.