Snow Bird

Palo Duro Canyon Autumn Colors

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C) Steve Douglass

The hunter and the hunted ...

Ready for supper?

Cold October Morning

This little sparrow was caught trying to warm himself up on my balcony this morning.
He looked lonely.

-Steve

Alabama ANG F-16s in Amarillo

I haven't see any Vipers in Amarillo in along time. They stopped here for a gas and go - and then on to Nellis.

I'm guesing they were enroute to participate in Red Flag.

Thank's to Tac-Air for the access!

Storm Chasers Premier Tonight!

The Canadians are here!

It was just yesterday afternoon (when I was taking my daily walk in Medi-Park) I noticed that there didn't seem to be any of the usually hundreds of Canadian geese that winter here each year.

Then that evening, while I was taking a photo of the great western horizon, I noticed a large flock of Canadians off on the distant horizon.

Wouldn't it be lovely (I thought) if they would turn this way and grace my sunset with a fly-over?

Much to my surprise they turned and did just that. They not only flew right overhead (very noisy I might add) they did it twice as if they wanted everyone in town to know they had arrived. Not to mention it enabled me to get the shot here.

Thank you Canadians!

Exclusive photo of who let the balloon boy's balloon go!

If you don't like the weather ...

.. wait a few minutes.

All these photos were taken within a five hour period today.









... wait a few minutes.

All these photos were taken within a five hour period today.

So you think you had a bad day!

I saved this poor rabbit today by taking his photo. This Northern Harrier was harassing this poor jack rabbit, trying to get him to bolt so he could pounce on him - but then the raptor saw me and gave up his attack.

As soon as the Harrier gave him some space, the rabbit ran like rabbits can run and I'm sure he probably still is running.

Its' kind of cool to think that the rabbit had no comprehension of how close he was to becoming a meal and how his bacon was saved by me, a photographer who happened to be traveling down a remote dirt road at the exact moment he needed something to come by and save his life.

Serendipity or divine intervention?

I got a pretty cool photo and in return the rabbit got to live another day.

-Steve

MId October Light

Blackhawk Sunset

Partly cloudy with a chance of buzzards

-Steve Douglass

Adobe Moon

Riding Thermals ...

A hawk soars on a thunderstorm updraft.
Photographed yesterday north of Amarillo.



(C) Steve Douglass

I saw a spaceship today.

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Just a few photographs from today's Space Shuttle/747 ferry flight after it landed at Rick Husband today. It was an breath-taking sight. I'll post more later.

Thanks to everyone for making it possible to get this close to a real spaceship.

-Steve Douglass
ALL PHOTOS (C) STEVE DOUGLASS

Cool beans!

KVII is going to use a photo I took of Palo Duro fork of the Red River as a new background for their School Net!

You can buy a print (without the School Net) by contacting me at the e-mail link above.

-Steve

I got buzzed - again.

Does my apartment just happen to lie under a new (unmarked) test flight operations area or (and i can't help but wonder) do they know an aviation photographer lives at my GPS coordinates and is always ready to take a portrait of these amazing aircraft/hybrid helicopters?

This afternoon about 2:PM I heard the familiar sound of an V-22 Osprey.

I see them in the pattern a lot since they are built out at the Bell/Textron plant on the east side of Amarillo.


Thing is, I live 12 miles from the plant and no where near their usual flight test areas, but lately they have been flying very low (and in tight circles) right over my abode in SW Amarillo.

When they do their circles, it seems my place is located right in the very center of things.

Today they came over very low (below a thousand feet) and did three circles allowing me enough time to grabb my camera and make a few shots.

When an Osprey is circling over one's apartment, you jolly-well know it because the whole place vibrates. I noticed other inhabitants sticking their heads out to see what was causing all the clamor.

Some seemed to be peeved, but some thought it was cool. I lean heavily toward the cool side.

Keep it up guys!

-Steve Douglass

U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup

U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup: "The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup.

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