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Small figurines in a shop window gave me the idea to use some "Dodo" images from Smithsonian Museum in Washington (DC) capital of USA. The creative approach was to create an image with a number of surreal components in the style of Salvador Dali. The most "surreal" is the "Dodo". A flightless bird from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean what was hunted into extinction with the last one killed in 1681

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A photo of a trainer plane used by the Tuskegee Airman. Tuskegee airman used this plane during training at Moton Field, Alabama. This PT-13D Stearman is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum outside of Washington D.C..

Pan Am Clipper poster -- late 1930's. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on The Mall in Washington, DC Canon EOS 7D 114 views as of 29 March 2015

P-40 Curtiss Warhawk at the Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian Museum in Chantilly, t,leggings,mug,tote,notebookVirginia Canon EOS 30D And 127 views as of 26 October 2011 --woohoo!!! 408 views as of 15 September 2013 1103 views as of 5 July 2019

Color Abstract by Carl Newman Exhibition Print

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC Franklin was always my favorite among the American Founding Fathers. A man of many extraordinary talents, he was also very human -- truly the one of that era I would most like to talk with. Canon EOS 7D 104 views as of 13 March 2014 1158 views as of 27 May 2015

Detail of map ca 1600 in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Clearly not the same as using GPS! "here be monsters" Canon EOS 7D

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This is the Bell XP-59A Airacomet, the first American jet fighter plane. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on The Mall in Washington, DC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_P-59_Airacomet Leica D-LUX 6

The Grumman Hellcat was the U.S. Navy's air superiority fighter during the latter stages of World War II. This one is in the Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian Museum in Chantilly, Virginia, USA. Canon EOS 7D and Canon EF50mm f/1.2L USM lens <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat</a>