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With a nice catch for lunch.

Legacy flight shot of the F4U Corsair and a F-35C.

… now long gone.

The “Miss Hap”, coming in for a landing in this shot, is the oldest surviving example of the B-25 “Mitchell”. It was built in 1940/41 at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, CA

She flew past me early one evening with something in her beak. It was dark and it happened so fast, I couldn’t tell what it was. When I walked to the other side of the trees, I found her enjoying her meal.

Shot with a RF 100 macro and a flash diffuser.

Coming home to where the original prototypes were built.

Built in 1868.
Decommissioned in 1934.
Survived the hurricane which turned the island into a peninsula in 1938.
Gutted by a fire in 1974.

Hunting in a little creek.

A click or two later he jumped right at my flash diffuser.

One of the two babies this owl pair had this particular year. They have been in the area for the past few years.

Gunfighter was built in Inglewood, California and was accepted into the USAAF in March of 1945.

Montauk Lighthouse was the first lighthouse in New York State the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the country.

In service between 1937 through the end of World War Two, they had a max speed of 362 MPH and a range of 850 miles. Shot late last spring.

In 1907, congress appropriated $40,000 for the construction of a new lighthouse to replace the original one which was built to the west of and considered of little help to those entering the harbor. This new lighthouse was completed in 1912 in a Venetian Renaissance (Beaux Art) style. I shot this with a drone.

“Doc” is one of two airworthy B-29’s left flying in the world. Taken during the late May 2025.

Originally built in 1870, it was destroyed by fire in 1963. It was rebuilt in 1990 on its original foundation.