Out of the streets and into the skies: the world from 5,000ft up through the lens of pilot and photographer Alex MacLean

An exhibition in London next month shows the work of the world's greatest aerial photographer, Alex MacLean.

MacLean started life as an architect, then after getting his pilot's licence set up a business specialising in aerial photography for architects, planners and environmentalists. Thirty years later, he has amassed an enormous archive of aerial photography.

The pictures here range from views of the brightly coloured houses of Burano in Italy to desert housing blocks in Nevada, flower fields in California and the macabre sight of a B-52 graveyard in Arizona.

The exhibition is at Beetles+Huxley in Swallow Street, W1, from March 18.