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