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Flag and church at sunset in Wyandotte, MI. Backlighting of the flag by the sunset gave it an interesting glow.
This is one of a dozen photos needed to get a decent shot of an American flag flying nearby. The two specks in the upper right are American Bald Eagles from a nearby nest.
I saw a photograph of Cub Scouts burning an American flag at a fire station a short while back. They burn the flag, out of respect, when they want to "decommission" it. Though I remembered hearing that flags are burned rather than allowed to touch the ground, the only time I had seen a burning flag was at a protest. It got me thinking about the different intentions around burning a flag and that the mere act of burning a flag is not in and of itself an act of protest.
Many veterans hate it when the flag is burned in protest because they feel that it symbolically destroys everything that they fought for, freedoms they fought to keep for their children and freedoms their fathers fought to keep for them. Others feel that being allowed to burn the flag exemplifies their right to freedom of expression, while others burn flags because they feel the US has turned its back on the freedoms the forefathers envisioned. Whatever the case may be, there are multiple facets to a seemingly singular act.
I wanted to try to capture that complexity in an image. Posterity and history, war and freedom, respect and disdain are important themes when we talk about flag burning. With those themes in mind, I wanted to create an image that could be interpreted in numerous ways. Did I succeed in that? How do you interpret the image? As this is my first composite image, ever, is the image itself technically satisfactory?
Creative Commons Note: This is a composite of other people's photos. I did not take any of these photographs. All the images were licensed as CC Attribution 2.0 permitting derivatives and commercial use, except for one, which permits derivatives but not commercial use. None of the licenses require Share-Alike. The authors are ottoman42, robson2313, katia BR, Jan Tik, Stitch and WenDee.
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Grissom Air Museum
Yes, it WAS windy! At the top of the tower the sustained winds were probably in the 30-40 mph range while gusts were topping 50 mph. It was one heck of a view and well worth the ffort, but I had to go inside the tower to change lenses, and I took off my hat and attached it to my bag strap to keep it from returning to Ohio before me.
A tattered American flag flies on a foggy day in Dorchester County, Maryland. Photographed in the Toddville area.
Grunge textured flag of Curacao on vintage paper
EDIT 4/22/2013: This grunge flag is now released under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to the same free image from my website, www.freestock.ca
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
In Jubilee Place, in Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, this is the window of Fiorelli, the handbag and accessories company that pretends to be Italian, but was actually created by Dunlop in the 1980s and taken over by the Lunan Group in 1995. Photo taken on July 24, 2012.
See: www.fiorelli.com/
For the Lunan Group (TLG), see: www.tlgbrands.com/our-brands/
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
Not being able to paint my room under the tennancy I took a different approach to add some colour. Should make a great photo backdrop too :0)
Grunge textured flag of the Comoros on vintage paper
EDIT 4/22/2013: This grunge flag is now released under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to the same free image from my website, www.freestock.ca
Icons carry so much baggage. Just pushing the shutter button made me feel like I was making a political statement, one that I didn't fully comprehend. But it's just a bit of cloth, isn't it?
Russians appeared to be one of the most 'flag-proud' people we have come across on our travels so far. That probably shouldn't come as a big surprise, but it somehow always amazes me how a couple of coloured bands of fabric can instil such strong emotions in human beings. But then again, that's probably why I do research on collective identities (see www.imagining.eu).
Construction warning flags indicating gas main (yellow) and telephone trunk (red) on the township road allowance in front of my house. There may be some work done on Church St. this year. However, it cannot be started until the new school is ready for occupancy and the two old schools are closed due to child pedestrian traffic and multiple school buses accessing the schools.
"Blue Flag" 2019
"Blue-Flag” 2019 is a biannual international aerial training exercise hosted by the IAF. Air forces from the United States, Italy, Greece and Germany simulated extreme combat scenarios in realistic settings with the IAF.
The current exercise was the first exercise in which the "Adir" (F-35I) aircraft participated.
Photography: Amit Agronov
״בלו-פלאג״ 2019 הוא תרגיל אווירי בין-לאומי שנערך על ידי חיל האוויר הישראלי. לאורך התרגיל, חילות האוויר של ארה״ב, איטליה, יוון, וגרמניה דימו תרחישי לחימה קיצוניים וטיסה בקואליציה באופן המציאותי ביותר עם חיל-האוויר הישראלי.
התרגיל הנוכחי היה הראשון שבו השתתפו מטוסי ה"אדיר" (F-35I).
צילום: עמית אגרונוב