Osprey's Clouded Hover Acrylic Print

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The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft. The United States Marine Corps fielded it in 2007 to replaced their Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knights. The U.S. Air Force fielded their version in 2009.

The Osprey is named after a real sea eagle, the Osprey, and the similarities between the two are intentional. The mechanical Osprey mimics it's living namesake in that it can fly high speed to a target, seemingly hover over it, and suddenly swoop to sea/ground level from above and fly off at a high rate of speed.

I am a San Diego based landscape and wildlife photographer, born and raised in Stockton, Illinois ( the 'S' is - not - pronounced ). I am one of the many that came to San Diego for a visit and just kept delaying my plans to go home. Although my heart is still pulled to the rural and slower lifestyle of growing up in farm country, my life is in and around San Diego. Over the years, I've grown to appreciate the big city lifestyle, but I always crave getting outside, discovering new places, reaching for those places that remind me of my youth, and to find connections with folks that are also from Northwest Illinois. My love for photography was born out my creative instincts. During my professional training in advertising design, a course in...