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Greg’s aerial photograph, “Approach to Telluride Airport,” selected by Flight Safety, Int’l (FSI) for global advertising!

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Hey Folks, I’m proud to announce that prestigious Flight Safety, International (FSI) has licensed two of my aerial photos for exclusive global advertising!

The latest is “Approach to Telluride Airport, Colorado (KTEX),” shown above.

The first was “Dusk Arrival,” to Sedona, Arizona (KSEZ), shown below in Aviation International News:

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Dusk Arrival” and “Approach to Telluride Aiport” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*Pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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Introducing Greg’s 2024 Aerial & Terrestrial Photo Wall Calendars!

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Greg’s 2024 Fine Art Photo Wall Calendars!

Greg’s calendars are printed and sold via Lulu.com. Check for any current discounts here and here.

NOTE: Greg’s calendars ship affordably worldwide.

*Click each Calendar to Preview Monthly Images and Order

2024“Sights I’ve Seen!” Views from the Flying Carpet Aerial Photo Wall Calendar
(All New Photos!)
2024 “Death in Paradise” On-Location Photo Wall Calendar
(All New Photos!)
2024 “Views from the Flying Carpet” Northern Arizona Legacy Aerial Photo Wall Calendar, “In the Shadow of the Peaks”
(“Legacy calendar:” Same great photos as last year.)
2024 “Airport Magic from the Flying Carpet” Legacy Aerial Photo Wall Calendar
(“Legacy calendar:” Same great photos as last year.)

Greg’s aerial photo, “Dusk Arrival,” selected by Flight Safety, Int’l (FSI) for global advertising!

Greg's photographs

Hey Folks, I’m proud to announce that prestigious Flight Safety, International (FSI) has licensed two of my aerial photos for exclusive global advertising!

The first is “Dusk Arrival,” to Sedona, Arizona (KSEZ), shown above. (I’ll reveal the second image when it shortly appears in print.)

Here is FSI’s first ad incorporating my photo, in this month’s Aviation International News:

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Dusk Arrival” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*Pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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“Arizona Red Rock Country, from the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness,” Greg’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, check out “Arizona Red Rock Country, from the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness,” my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print!

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Arizona Red Rock Country, from the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*Pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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“Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” Greg’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, check out “Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print, available in two variations!

I photographed “Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” from the Flying Carpet, en route from Flagstaff, Arizona, to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I’m offering this print in 2 variations: “Wide View” & “Close View.” Can’t decide which to order? Consider “Wide View” for larger print sizes, and “Close View” for smaller sizes.

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*These pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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Introducing Greg’s 2023 “Views from the Flying Carpet” Aerial Photo Wall Calendars!

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Hey All,

Check out my all-new 2023 “Views from the Flying Carpet” Photo Wall Calendar!

This year’s focus, “In the Shadow of the Peaks,” features 13 extraordinary landmarks, all within sight of Northern Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks, photographed from the Flying Carpet at all times of year.

And my 2023 “Airport Magic, from the Flying Carpet” Legacy* Photo Wall Calendar, featuring 13 captivating photographs* of diverse North American airports I’ve visited by Flying Carpet. (*Features the same great photos as last year’s “Airport Magic” calendar.)

*Click calendar images or names to preview monthly photos.

$22.06 + shipping & applicable tax.

Greg

Greg’s 2023 Fine Art Photo Wall Calendars

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“Miles and Miles of Sunflowers!” Greg’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, thanks to your enthusiastic reception, here’s “Miles and Miles of Sunflowers,” my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print!

I was returning my wife Jean and her tennis teammate Jenny from a tournament in El Paso. Five long hours round trip by Flying Carpet, and it was too hazy to see anything special… until 15 minutes from home.

There we encountered these vivid, horizon-to-horizon sunflowers sweeping from Lake Mary toward the San Francisco Peaks. Never have we seen anything like this before! This turns out to be Northern Arizona’s most amazing wildflower year in memory, and we’re thrilled to have captured even a tiny fragment of it from aloft.

Nowhere is the power of numbers more boldly reflected than in these fields of sunflowers captured from a speeding airplane thousands of feet in the air!

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Miles and Miles of Sunflowers,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $125, with super-affordable 2-day shipping throughout the Continental US.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*These pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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Miles and Miles of Sunflowers!

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I flew my wife and her teammate to El Paso and back over the weekend to compete in tennis sectionals. Two grueling 5-hour round trips, and too hazy to see much of anything in either case, until…

Just 15 minutes from home, I encountered horizon-to-horizon gold! All that yellow is wildflowers, most if not all, sunflowers!

Talk about the power of numbers! Imagine how many plants it takes to carpet so many square miles, vividly viewed from a speeding airplane several thousand feet in the air!

If anyone’s interested in having one of these as a Fine Art Metal Print, please drop me a message. (See my current Views from the Flying Carpet and Down to Earth Fine Art Metal Prints.)

Greg

Top photo: Sunflowers stretch from south of Lake Mary toward the San Francisco Peaks. Below: Miles of wildflowers span northeast to northwest viewed from over Mormon Lake. (Click images to enlarge.)

  • Note Mormon Lake Overlook at lower left
  • Note Mormon Lake Overlook at lower left
  • Note San Francisco Peaks thunderstorm
  • At Kachina Wetlands a few days earlier…

Greg’s current “Sunflowers” Down to Earth Fine Art Metal Prints

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Introducing Greg’s 2021 “Views over Sedona” Photo Wall Calendar!

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Check out Greg’s new 2021 “Views Over Sedona, from the Flying Carpet” Photo Wall Calendar!

This colorful 11″x17″ calendar features thirteen views over Arizona’s spectacular Red Rock Country captured at all times of year.

Few of us view calendar covers after opening, so Greg turned the cover photo 90 degrees to create an 11″x17″ Sedona vista suitable for framing. (Monthly photos are 8½” x 11″, with plenty of space for daily notes.)

You are hereby officially authorized to remove and frame the cover photo, either to remind you of past Sedona visits, or to inspire future ones!

Click here to ORDER and preview monthly photos.

$29.95 + shipping & applicable tax.

Greg

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“Tight Quarters,” Greg’s December, 2016 Flying Carpet column

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Attending a kid’s 4th birthday party might sound unimportant, but Jean and I felt high emotional stakes in flying to Alamogordo, New Mexico for the occasion.

Our son and daughter-in-law Austin and Desi and their children had recently moved there from overseas. That would make our grandson’s “pirate pool party” our first family celebration together in six years.

Alamogordo is nine hours’ drive from Flagstaff, but less than three hours by Flying Carpet. Perusing the charts, I was pleased to find manageable terrain en route. However, a 140-mile thicket of restricted airspace encompasses nearby White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, blocking general aviation access from the west. High mountains and additional military airspace also limit access from the east.

That leaves two flying routes from Arizona, neither direct. Shortest is to fly east beyond Socorro to JUPTR intersection, then steer 90 miles south between military airspace and the Sacramento Mountains. The longer alternative is to fly southeast to El Paso over high and remote terrain, then thread an exceedingly narrow 60-mile corridor northward between restricted areas. Both routes are comfortably flyable in good weather, but given such tight quarters each can be blocked over many miles by a single thunderstorm…

**READ THIS MONTH’S ENTIRE COLUMN, “TIGHT QUARTERS“**

Photo: “Massive thunderheads crown the Sacramento Mountains northeast of Alamogordo, NM. (Note malpais volcanic lava fields in foreground.)” SEE MORE PHOTOS HERE!

(This column first appeared in AOPA Flight Training magazine.)

Greg

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