Aerial archeologist Klaus Leidorf began taking these gorgeous, minimalist photos in 1989, while flying his own Cessna 172. He’s brilliant at capturing how odd our world looks when you get a different perspective on it from the air.
You can find more than 2,400 of his high-resolution shots here, in this Flickr stream, or more than 10,000 on leidorf.de.
Blooming Rape Field, Poing
Farm in the Rape Field, Freidling
String Of Pearls, fish ponds in Namsenbach
Quick rower on Gröbensee
A square of cows, Kleinhöhenkirchen
A golf course, Holzkirchen
A solar power plant near Hemau in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria
Sparkling river, an aerial photo of river Wörnitz, a left tributary of the Danube
Freshly harrowed field, Münster
A pine alley in Tuscany, Italy
Red tractor with a hay conditioner
Farmers Painting 24
What shall we do with a drunken farmer…?, Hörmannsdorf
Pattern, near Anzberg
Abstract vegetation, Munningen
Cherry trees in autumn colors, Westendorf
Fields
Round fields, Limpopo, South Africa
Patchwork, vineyards in autumn, Seinsheim
Boomerang, a green island in the middle of some ploughland, Gotha
Trees in Autumn Dresses, Aindling
Haymaking, Poing
Ploughing contest, Greilsberg
Clones, a forest in Neuen Südfriedhof, Munich
Ripped Agrofoil, Ismaning
Irrigation sprinklers, near Bergtheim
Red Car 38
Farmers Painting 02, Gaimersheim
Sailing hay bales, Parsdorf
Ripped, greenhouses in Calvenzano, Italy
Timber yard, Schwindegg
Traces of cultivation under a thin layer of snow
Wave pattern on Chiemsee
Fish ponds on Speichersee
The frozen surface of Gretlmühle
One is missing, winter in Au, Bavaria
Cold solar power, near Untergriesbach-Ornatsöd
A chicken farm from above
Train meeting in Berg am Laim, Munich
Houses in Landshut
