Your Flying World 2022 Finalists

I was attending a Fly Day sponsored by the Flying Heritage Collection (FHC).  The main attraction were the warbirds but this DC-3 in Pan American Airways System livery caught my attention.  Both engines roared into life and it taxied to the active runway at Paine Field.  As the pilots did their engine run up that […]

I came in from flight training and noticed the beautiful silhouettes of the aircraft. I didn’t even realize that I caught the moon, too, until much later.            iPhone 10s, Automatic

Towhead twins excitedly point to the Pawnee towing the glider as they depart 1N7 Blairstown NJ on an idyllic summer afternoon.  The 13-year-olds’ late grandfather was a pilot; I suggested to their grandmother that she gift to them some aviation magazine subscriptions, and then sat each of them in the pilot seat of my plane. […]

I was attending an event at the Pacific Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Knowing it was approaching the afternoon golden hour, I went outside and began looking around. Parked nearby was this vintage World War II aircraft that caught my eye. As I slowly walked around it, the golden light got better and better.  When […]

In 2021 I attended the CIAS Toronto airshow for the first time. The F-35 Demo Team put on one heck of a show! The conditions were perfect for producing vape all of us photographers wish for. This photo has been a staple shot for my aviation photography journey, and I can’t wait to capture more […]

Flying over Canton, Texas, near First Monday Trade Days at Sunset.        Apple iPhone 14 Pro Main Camera   Auto – 24 mm ƒ1.78    Taken from an Aviat Husky A-1C.     

While at a private airfield outside Sawyer, ND I was able to capture Warren Pietsch lifting off. Sony a9, Sony FE 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 +1.4 teleconverter zoomed out to 284 mm.           1/125sec at f/10 ISO 400

This was an air-to-air mission with the F-86 Sabre from the Planes of Fame Museum with Steve Hinton as the pilot. We were flying along the Pacific coastline near the Santa Maria Airport. Sony a1 with 24-70 f/2.8 GM lens      1/3200sec at f/8 with an ISO 800

1941 WACO UPF-7 Serial #5593, First Flight after Frame Up Restoration My husband and I bought this airplane in 2014 as a rusted fuselage frame along with boxes of parts. After working for 7,000 hours over eight years, we flew it for the first time May 6, 2021, the day I took this photo of […]

The Flying Heritage Collection (FHC) at Paine Field had always put on great events and I expected this photo shoot of Pacific Theater warbirds to be just as good. During a pause in the aerial performances of their Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat and Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Zero, this An-124 commercial freighter operated by Volga-Dnepr was a complete […]