Watching Bravery Tank Top

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In 2014, wildfire's engulfed San Diego County, including Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Fire fighting efforts on Camp Pendleton included every helicopter on the base being pressed into service with a bambi bucket to collect water from lakes on and other off base sources, namely Oceanside Harbor. Two full squadrons were ordered to protect the fuel depot by pulling water from nearby Lake O'Neill. This fire fighter watches this CH-46 Sea Knight fly into one the most intense fires on base.

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...