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My wife and I visited Las Vegas to check out Red Flag 21-3, a big exercise for the USAF, Navy, and some foreign countries. It's a great experience watching so many warplanes coming and going. Las Vegas in August is HOT - as in over 100 degrees so we were sweltering. I still can't seem to get consistent tack sharp photos of the high speed takeoffs so I will keep practicing. Any advice is welcome.
I took these photos outside of Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, in early August 2021.
85th TES aircraft are not seen too often, so very happy with this one. Participant in Red Flag RF2013-3
A B-1B Lancer blasts off out of Nellis AFB towards the Nevada bombing ranges for some target practice during Red Flag 12-4.
Explore October 31, 2012.
Shaw have always been frequent participants at all major Red Flag exercises in the past, 77th FS was at Nellis AFB during 2017.
Ah, the joy of sipping on the yellow nectar of these fuzzy red Hot Lips! Yes, that's what these flowers really are called!
There are over 2,000 species of Psychotria, the genus under which Hot Lips falls. Where does Hot Lips grow? Psychotria elata is part of the tropical rainforest understory flora of the Americas. It is a unique plant with uninteresting flowers but fabulous lip-like bracts. The plant can be difficult to grow and has very special cultivation conditions.
Hot lips grows as a shrub or small tree. The plant has deeply veined simple leaves of matte green. The flower is actually a pair of modified leaves that "pout" around the tiny star-like white to cream flowers. These become small bluish-black berries. The plant is very attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
Heliconius melpomene, the postman butterfly, common postman or simply postman, is one of the heliconiine butterflies found from Mexico to northern South America. Several species in the genus have very similar markings and are difficult to distinguish.
Postman, Heliconius melpomene cythera, longwing
Hot Lips, labios de puta, psychotria peoppigiana
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
The Sydney Harbour Bridge blocking the late afternoon sun and sitting proudly above the maritime version of the Australian Flag.
Another back to 2013 at Nellis AB. Falcon in Agressor c/s. This aircraft is still with the 57th, but now in Have Glass V color scheme.
Lockheed Martin F-16D Fighting Falcon
S/N: 91-0474
Red Flag 09-3 (Nellis AFB: Las Vegas, Nevada)
OK. So I got tired of monochromatic skies. Thought some clouds might look good so I added some.
Photo by www.kensaviation.com
Flickr family!! I locked myself out of my account and just got back in...hello! It's April. I've never gone so long in my entire photo career without posting here. It's been sad.
Here's a catch-up of my year so far.
January I went to India for a couple of weeks to teach self-expression workshops to survivors of human trafficking. It was a great trip where I got to go to a huge wedding (where I stayed awake for 38 hours celebrating!) and even got to teach a group of 10-11 year old gals.
In February I bunkered in at home mostly and organized a 10-city tour! I'm coming to London, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, NYC, Toronto, Vancouver and Melbourne.
In addition to those cities, I have other jobs to do abroad, so I'm also visiting Florence, Rome, Coventry, Wellington, and Queenstown!
Did I mention this is all in 6 weeks?
I've also been creating a brand new exhibition that debuts in NYC on June 13. I'm sending my images in to get proofed today! It has taken a lot of energy out of me to do all of this.
I also just got back from 10 days in Greece where we celebrated the graduation of The Light Space students. TLS is a photography school that I co-founded that teaches photograph as a life skill to underprivileged communities. Our program in Greece aids unaccompanied minor refugees.
I'll write more later, but for now, here is the first image I took this year when it snowed on New Year's Day. It feels like a lifetime ago, but also just like a blink away.
Xoxo, how are you??
Couldn't resit these flags in the sun and the breeze, I think they are some sort of markers for the fishing boats.