Austria

Austria (Aug 9, 2006)

From my airplane window, just before landing in Vienna. I like a lot the regular pattern of fields, and their textures that change according to the type of crop, the season and the light. European landscapes are so different from the desert views that I see while flying over the US southwest: both can be strikingly geometrical despite their so different origin. One is the result of century of intentional human landscaping and the accidents of history. The other is emerging by seemingly random physical processes, like the arabesques of a Mandelbrot set are beget from the convergence of a stunningly simple mathematical series.