Photographer Alex MacLean shoots almost all his breathtaking aerial photography from a small Cessna 182 plane, sticking his camera out of the cockpit window. This photograph shows the Ocean City Amusement Park in Ocean City, Md., in 2011.

Colorful fields of flowers in Carlsbad, Calif., in 1989.

Floating daisy docks in Chicago, Ill., in 1999.

An adobe housing development in Las Vegas, Nev., in 2005.

Bathers in a wave pool in Orlando, Fla., in 1999.

Boats in Tremont, Maine, in 2008.

Shipping containers in Portsmouth, Va., in 2011.

Strips in fields in Goodyear, Ariz., in 2004.

A commercial logging site in Olympia, Wash., in 2005.

Interchanging flyovers in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2009.

People relaxing at the Spiagge Beach in Rosignano Marittimo, Italy, in 2007.

Flamingos taking a flight in Rosolina, Italy, in 2009.

A dirt biker in Boulder City, Nev., in 2009.

A golf oasis in Boulder City, Nev., in 2009.

Desert housing blocks in Las Vegas, Nev., in 2009.

Loaded coal train cars in Norfolk, Va., in 2011.

Brightly painted houses in Burano, Italy, in 2010.

People swimming in a pool in Cambridge, Mass., in 2012.

A shipyard in Newport, Va., in 2011.

An orchard covered in snow in Bolton, Mass., in 2013.

Cars parked at a Nascar event in Richmond, Va., in 2011.

People relax at a swimming pool in the East Bolton province in Quebec, Canada, in 2012.

Landfills in Staten Island, N.Y., in 2013.

Estuarine sand plumes in Wellfleet, Mass., in 2013.

Oyster cages in Cape Cod, Mass., in 2013.

An American flag playground and a basketball court in Stow, Mass., in 2013.

Estuarine sand plumes in Wellfleet, Mass., in 2013.