Aerial Views

The American landscape is very intriguing. I actually started in New York State and took a look at the way the counties are laid out. I wanted to start there and then take a closer look at Erie county. 

The counties themselves just seem haphazardly put together. I'm assuming they are divided by natural landmarks among other things. Erie county itself has some sort of pattern with roads going vertically and horizontally. 

As you can see it looks almost like its divided with a solid line down the middle.  When you look closer, at say Cheektowaga there is even more of a distinct pattern of roads and houses.

I then wanted to look at a few other states, New Mexico is much like New York with its counties and how it's roads are set up. 

The counties are just everywhere and anywhere it seems but the roads and houses have a much more distinct pattern. Texas on the other hand is completely different, the counties there are just chopped up into almost equal squares. 

I thought it was interesting to look at industrial farms in Texas as well. From what I saw is many found them pretty while others found them ugly and vile. 

On the flip side you have farm land that is something we may all be more used to seeing. Then we have a view of Oxnard farm fields in spring with Ventura City and Pacific Ocean in the background which is in Ventura City, California. 

The view of this is amazing with many different attributes. Not only is there the farm pattern, but also the city behind it.