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During NTM2025, held at Beja Airbase BA11 (LPBJ/BYJ) only two formation flypasts were able to be caught on camera by myself. One with a mix of helos just flying for the public and the other formed by 4 German Tornados returning from a mission. Thanks to all of them for making the spotters happy.
Gold Butte National Monument is a United States national monument located in Clark County, Nevada, northeast of Las Vegas and south of Mesquite and Bunkerville. The monument protects nearly 300,000 acres of desert landscapes featuring a wide array of natural and cultural resources, including rock art, sandstone towers, and important wildlife habitat for species including the Mojave Desert tortoise (a threatened species), bighorn sheep, and mountain lion. The area also protects historic ranching and mining sites such as the ghost town of Gold Butte, although little but mine openings, cement foundations, and a few pieces of rusting equipment remains. The monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The monument consists of 296,937 acres (120,166 ha). The Gold Butte National Monument fills a gap between Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, creating a continuous swath of conserved land and establishing a wildlife corridor. Significant wildlife within the borders of the park include Mojave Desert tortoise (a threatened species), bighorn sheep, and mountain lion, as well as Gambel's quail and chukar partridge. Important cultural and natural resources within the monument include rock art and sandstone formations. Within the park, "weather-chiseled red sandstone is incised with ancient rock art, and the remains of rock shelters and hearths, agave roasting pits and projectile points" may be found.
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Sesfontein Rock formations, Namibia.
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The Moeraki Boulders are concretions created by the cementation of the Paleocene mudstone of the Moeraki Formation, from which they have been exhumed by coastal erosion. The main body of the boulders started forming in what was then marine mud, near the surface of the Paleocene sea floor.
This is demonstrated by studies of their composition; specifically the magnesium and iron content, and stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon. Their spherical shape indicates that the source of calcium was mass diffusion, as opposed to fluid flow. The larger boulders, 2 metres (6.6 ft) in diameter, are estimated to have taken 4 to 5.5 million years to grow while 10 to 50 metres (33 to 164 ft) of marine mud accumulated on the seafloor above them. After the concretions formed, large cracks known as septaria formed in them. Brown calcite, yellow calcite, and small amounts of dolomite and quartz progressively filled these cracks when a drop in sea level allowed fresh groundwater to flow through the mudstone enclosing them
Taken @Moeraki Boulders, NZ
Two Black Headed Gulls coming in to land on water in formation.
Thanks to les brumes and peshovski for the textures
Not a formation you would have seen when these were still serving but interesting all the same. They are from the same era..... MIG 17, a pair of T-33s and an F-86
Two distinct generations of powered flight. The British turboprop airliner Vickers Viscount 814 and the American Boeing 747-230B, both ex-Lufthansa, both mounted high above the area of the museum in Speyer as if they were flying in a tight formation. A very impressive sight. Both aircraft were revolutionary in their own way. The Viscount was the first widely used turboprop airliner, which introduced hitherto unknown levels of travel speed and comfort. The 747 carried three times more passengers than previous airliners and was instrumental in making air transport affordable for the common man.
Technik-Museum Speyer, Germany
Interesting cloud formation seen at Hitchin on 16 October 2020 - it reminds me of the White Cliffs of Dover.
Geese are so beautiful!
Here is a decent sized gaggle floating in formation down the beautiful Bow River on a snowy, but sunny and bright, Sunday afternoon.
Oh, and there is also a lone duck on the far left middle...I think he feels left out!
In my backyard one day, late morning into the afternoon I looked up and saw these beautiful clouds in the sky with the sun shining through. I thought WOW, this is gorgeous and started shooting. These are the images I was fortunate to obtain! Photo images credited to Vickie L Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs (VLP&Designs). Photo images may be designed on wearableart and/or home essentials @vlpdesigns.com
One of those happy accidents. I was concentrating on the rock formation when just as I fired the shutter the Fulmar and Rook? added their own.
In Ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a formation used commonly by the Roman Legions during battles, particularly sieges. Testudo is the Latin word for "tortoise".
三菱 F-4EJ改 ファントムII 戦闘機（57-8356・97-8416 / 301sq）
Mitsubishi F-4EJkai “Phantom II” Fighter Aircraft
航空自衛隊 航空総隊 中部航空方面隊 第7航空団 飛行群 第301飛行隊 / 百里基地
JASDF Air Defense Command, Central Air Defense Force, 7th Air Wing, Flight Group, 301st Squadron / Hyakuri Air Base
2018年12月2日 百里飛行場（茨城空港 / 航空自衛隊 百里基地・百里基地航空祭2018）にて撮影
December 2, 2018 at Hyakuri Airfield (Ibaraki Airport / JASDF Hyakuri Air Base, Hyakuri Air Show 2018), IBR / RJAH