Lockheed-Martin F-35B Lightning 2 BuNo 168720 Luke Air Force Base December 10 2013 Canvas Print

Lockheed-Martin F-35B Lightning 2 BuNo 168720 Modex 02 of VMFA-121 Green Knights, based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, paid a visit to Luke Air Force Base on December 10, 2013. It arrived just before 11:00 this morning. It made four circuits of the pattern in vertical landing mode and then landed. It was being shown to officials from Singapore, which is considering buying the Joint Strike Fighter.

Brian Lockett is a photographer specializing in panoramic landscape and aviation photography. He started with a Kodak Brownie in the 1960s. He got his first 35mm camera in 1973 and had a lengthy addiction to Kodachrome. He transitioned to digital photography in 2004. Brian's territory is the American Southwest, primarily Arizona, California, and Nevada. Brian has long engaged in panoramic landscape photography. In recent years he has used a Gigapan robotic camera mount to make extremely high resolution, very wide angle pictures assembled from hundreds of images. Some of his pictures exceed 2 billion pixels. The giant image files that Brian produces with the Gigapan are available from Fine Art America as prints as large as...