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circa 1942: WWII, crosses in the air and on land somewhere in eastern Europe...photo by my paternal grandfather, a German soldier.
The wavy Karst rock formations at the Stone Forest at Shilin near Kunming, Yunnan, China, formed over 270 million years old when the area was below sea level.
Location: Marineland, Palm Coast, Florida.
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Blackchurch Rock lies on the North Coast of Devon and this impressive Stack is a Photographers playground, I visited back in March and will return in the coming weeks to see if I can get another shot or two.
Blackchurch is part of the Crackington Formation, an Upper Carboniferous formation of sandstone and dark mudstones and shale, an arch sea stack composed of layers of sandstone and shale tilted at about 60 degrees.
These large folds were formed during a mountain building event about 290 million years ago, called the Variscan Orogeny. The rocks were dated by cephalopod fossils called goniatites, an interesting place for sure :)
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Painted Desert, part of Petrified Forest National Park.
A basalt cap overlays the Bidahochi formation above the Chinle formation. An estimated 305 meter layer appears to have been eroded away between the two formations.
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds - #126 in Explore 5/5/22
2022 Fort Lauderdale Air Show - Fort Lauderdale, Florida U.S.A.
Spring 2022 - On the Beach - Broward County - South Florida
*[left-click for a closer-look - Air-Show Flight-Squadron - 5/1/22]
The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, known to all the world as the “Thunderbirds”, are the Air Force’s Ambassadors in Blue. They represent the 500,000 men and women of the United States Air Force. The Thunderbirds plan and present precision aerial maneuvers to exhibit the capabilities of modern, high-performance aircraft and the high degree of professional skill required to operate those aircraft. The Thunderbirds squadron is composed of eight pilots (including six demonstration pilots), four support officers, four civilians and more than 100 enlisted personnel.
The Thunderbirds air demonstration is a mix of formation flying and solo routines. The four-jet diamond formation demonstrates the training and precision of Air Force pilots, while the two solo aircraft highlight some of the extreme capabilities of the F-16. In all, the pilots perform approximately 40 maneuvers in a single demonstration. An aerial demonstration lasts 60 minutes with an additional 15 minutes for the ground show before takeoff.
During a typical season the Thunderbirds perform no more than 70 air demonstrations in 35 cities throughout the nation. More than 280 million people in all 50 states and 57 foreign countries have seen the red, white and blue Thunderbirds jets.
Thunderbirds were officially activated June 1, 1953, as the 3600th Air Demonstration Unit at Luke AFB, Arizona. The unit was nicknamed the “Stardusters.” Their first aircraft was the straight-winged F-84G Thunderjet. The team transitioned to the swept-winged F-84F Thunderstreak in 1955. In June 1956, the team moved to its current home at Nellis AFB in Nevada and traded the veteran F-84 for the world’s first supersonic fighter, the F-100 Super Sabre. In early 1964, the team changed briefly to the F-105B Thunderchief, but after only six shows returned to the F-100. In 1969 the team transitioned to the F-4E Phantom and then in 1974 to the T-38 Talon, a more fuel efficient jet. In 1983 the Thunderbirds began flying the
F-16 and continue to do so. - Was a huge thrill on a magnificent day!
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Watch the Show! - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCocHrfPbc
2nd Place Competition Winner - Daarklands Group - 10/15/25
The geology at Saltwick Bay is Jurassic, including rocks from the Alum Shale Member, with the overlying Dogger Group and the Saltwick Formation.
Shot on a trip out to Dartmoor and has undergone considerable editing. I may well enter this to the WCPF competition on Formation.
I spotted this strange ice shape in a frozen puddle while wandering around Glen Affric on Saturday and thought it would make an interesting foreground feature.
I then started wondering what it was and how it had been created; it was about 8" tall and completely hollow but I have yet to come up with an explanation.
Any ideas?
This is a shot taken a few hours after the view of the misty valley I uploaded yesterday. By this time I had reached the summit crater of Ruapehu and traversed approximately half way around its rim. At one point I dropped down into the shallowest but largest of the two craters and took this view looking towards the southern edge of the rim. I only met three other hikers during this very long day so unfortunately I wasn't able to show scale here by including someone in the view.
I cropped this quite a bit so this little beauty would show up!
"Damselflies are insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller, have slimmer bodies, and most species fold the wings along the body when at rest, unlike dragonflies which hold the wings flat and away from the body. An ancient group, damselflies have existed since at least the Lower Permian, and are found on every continent except Antarctica."
Source: Wikipedia
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At Cowes a phalanx of high fliers into the light cloudy skies. I've always been amazed that birds like Ibis can fly and they look amazing awing.
With an added Kerstin Frank texture. Happy Wing Wednesday.
Trojan Phlyers formation take off at Fort Scott KS. Wonder if they will have a show there this year?
A fascinating rock formation I just had to photograph. Nordland, Norway.
Olympus Trip 35
Ilford Fp4 plus
This may look like sand dunes (reminded me of the texture of a lemon meringue pie) but it is actually one of the geological formations in Cappadocia.