View From The Top

VIEW FROM THE TOP

Klaus Leidorf's View From the Top

Wall St. Journal, April 19-20, 2014

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"Classic Car Market"

While flying nearly 2,000 feet above Munich, Mr. Leidorf caught a glimpse of this pattern of colorful vehicles and people 

at a classic car market. He picked this image out of more than 1,500 pictures he took that day

"Flowering Fruit Trees"

'From 100 meters away you can see things clearly, but from the ground, you can see nothing,' Mr. Leidorf says.

"Under Snow"

A nursery in Stamberg, Germany.

"Fish Ponds"

Ariel view of the fish ponds at The reservoir in Ascheim, Germany.

Klaus Leidorf, an aerial ecologist for the Bavarian state government in Germany, spends up 
to seven or eight hours a day in airplanes, taking photograph.

While surveying the land and looking for ancient remains, Klaus Leidorf sometimes ends up with art. A freelance aerial archaeologist for the Bavarian state government in Germany, Mr. Leidorf spends up to eight hours a day in the pilot seat of an airplane, scanning the local terrain for things like buried stone walls. Over his 30-year career, he has identified and photographed more than 30,000 historical sites where humans lived up to 5,000 years ago. More recently, he has emphasized the artistic side of his work, and the art gallery Contempop in Tel Aviv has started to sell some of his photographs at art fairs, giving viewers a different perspective on the world. "From 100 meters away you can see things clearly, but on the ground you can see nothing," he says. He posts his work at www.flickr.com/photos/leidorf.

—Alexandra Wolfe