This book consists of aerial photos, taken over the last 30 plus years. I love the vast vistas that open up as one ascends, the mountains peeking through the clouds, the fractured geometry of farmlands, impossibly angular canals, dykes, reservoirs and water projects, gridded cityscapes, forests, fires, rugged expanses of wilderness, lakes, seas, endless oceans and the spectacular panorama of clouds on the move, capped with turbulence, rumbling thunderheads and sometimes explosive bolts of jagged lightning. It is beautiful, mesmerizing and wonderful to be able to fly far above the earth! After millions of years, we have become birds, the impossible dream of our ancestors.