Pilot and photographer Alex MacLean has flown his plane over much of the United States documenting the landscape.

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Trained as an architect...Alex Maclean...has portrayed the history and evolution of the land...in the United States...from vast agricultural patterns to city grids, recording changes brought about by human intervention and natural processes. His powerful and descriptive images provide clues to understanding the relationship between the natural and constructed environments. MacLean's photographs have been exhibited widely in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia and are found in private, public and university collections.*

I've long believed that everyone in the world has taken at least one or two excellent photographs. If you've taken a photograph that you especially like, from an airplane in flight, email it to me at lloydrowsey@hotmail.com, and I'll try toinclude it (with your name) in a future OEN article.

* All pictures are courtesy of Alex S. Maclean and artnet's Artist Works Catalogues. At its AWC, there is this: "artnet offers these catalogues free to the public as an educational resource. Simply click on an individual artist's image to begin, and check back often to browse new catalogues."

Authors Bio:
"How could I fail to speak with difficulty? I have new things to say."

I graduated from Stanford Law School in 1966 but have never practiced. Instead, I dropped back five years and joined The Movement, but it wasn't until the 1970's that I began writing serious prose. By 1978, I was too old to live on the streets and sweat out going to jail, so I got a serious job as a GS-4, clerk-typist with the US Forest Service. I retired 23 years later, as head of the regionwide Claims Program in the California Region, headquartered in San Francisco for 20 years and then moved to Mare Island, in Vallejo. (That early school training always catches up with us, sooner or later.)

I still live in the greater Vallejo area, and I still have radical politics. Last year my major project was contributing to the ending of the Iraq war, with a minor in ending the embargo of Cuba. This year, I'm a little confused, but what the hey, who's not?