I prefer to photograph hummingbirds off of feeders but haven't taken much time to catch one on a tree branch lately. Photographed in my backyard, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_6721

Paul Stone displaying Spitfire Vc AR501 at The Shuttleworth Collection Vintage Airshow 2021.

AR501 makes her long awaited return to the airshow scene in the hands of Stu Goldspink at The Shuttleworth Collection May Evening airshow 2018. The aircraft is a geniune combat veteran and entered service with 310 (Czech) Squadron at Duxford in 1942.

Canon EOS 5DS R

TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010

ƒ/10.0 53.0 mm 1/250 100

"...Em ti eu consigo encontrar

Um caminho, um motivo, um lugar

Pra eu poder repousar meu amor..."

langstertflap/long-tailed widowbird/euplectes progne

These male birds in their wedding suits makes them quite clumsy flyers but nevertheless still attractive for some females.

And for the sake of honesty, the flying one is the same bird as the sitting one, which cannot be explained by quantum physics.

VC-25A 29000 aka AirForce 2 flying above Brussels

Kesselwagenzug nach Marl Hüls ... Saarbrücken 01. November 2017

Sony ILCE-6600

Tamron 2.8/17-70 Di III-A VC RXD

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Spotter day bsb 2017

RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk-VC AR501 G-AWII DU-E No 310 Czechoslovak Squadron

This spitfire was built at Yeovil in Somerset and delivered to 310 RAF Squadron based at Exeter in 1942

Photo taken at Old Warden Fly Navy Airshow

Held at Shuttleworth Museum Old Warden Aerodrome Biggleswade Bedfordshire UK 3rd July 2022

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VC-10 tanker...