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Yesterday was AWESOME!!!! I don’t mean to geek out but getting to stand on the runway as the F-35 lands was something I will soon not forget! Here are a few images from yesterday’s assignment!!!  I also posed a photo of an F-16 that did a low pass, which was pretty sweet!!!!

I covered three wildfires that broke out in the Antelope Valley yesterday. The first was the Lancaster fire, which was only about 30 acres and was knocked out pretty quickly. Then on my way back to the office the Soledad Canyon fire broke out and burned nearly 300 acres before it was put out and about the same time the Crown fire broke. What a crazy day!!

It’s that time of year again.  Here is a couple of shots from the West fire, which is a small fire burning in Tehachapi, Calif.

This past weekend Luceo Photographer and good friend Daryl Peveto and I headed out to Searchlight NV to cover the first day of The Tea Party Express. It feels good to be back in California after a crazy weekend with the teabaggers, but I wish Daryl Peveto all the best as he travels with them on their national bus tour across the US. To see more images as he makes his journey documenting the Tea Party Express, you can follow his blog by clicking here.

Here are a few images from an assignment I had this past weekend. I can truly say it was a refreshing break from the daily grind at the paper! It was fun marching with Boba Fett and couple of Storm Troopers all over this crazy landscape while nearly 30 kids trailed along.

While out on assignment this past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting Ray Goodman on his 17,000 mile hike around the US.

I want to first give some huge props to my friend Matthew Williams for his Pine Ridge Reservation piece that ran in The New York Times today. You can view his article here.  He also has a multimedia piece as well.   I was lucky enough to have worked with Williams on another piece in Pine Ridge S.D. a few months back and some of the video I shot ran in The New York Times piece, which you can view here.  Again I want to say thanks and CONGRATS to Mr. Williams a truly talented visual journalist.

Photo by Troy Harvey