I’ve done a few too many long haul flights recently, but I’m still amazed by the beauty of he view from 6 miles high. A particular delight is the Australian landscape…

This (above) is in the ‘dead heart’ – miles and miles of emptiness, thousands of miles from the ocean. It’s just possible to make out a few dirt roads – otherwise, this landscape is much as it was thousands of years ago.

The three above are all of the north west coast near Derby. It’s the most amazing coast, utterly unspoilt, and again, much as it was 50,000 years ago. From a European perspective, such an extraordinary concept, when we’re used to our landscapes being newer than most of our buildings, and just as manufactured…

Above – flying into the UK at dawn over the Thames Estuary – the field patterns so particular to England.