Flags - SPC 3/2017 2nd place - Flag Display

SECOND PLACE PHOTO - March, 2017 Secret Photographer Contest; theme "Flags"; entry #11 with the previous title "Flag Display".

A vigorous onshore breeze has all 75 flags fully displayed on this quintuple flag mast located on the dunes immediately behind the Atlantic shoreline at Virginia Beach, Virginia, including the 50 US states; the US territories; 13 other sovereign nations; the Vietnam veterans POW/MIA banner; and, of course Old Glory at the top of the central mast with a small pennant of unknown significance just beneath. Flags fly on weekends from Memorial Day to Labor Day for the last 18 years and are maintained by the 87th Street Neighborhood Association. View is to the SE.

Submitted to the March, 2017 Secret Photographer Contest @ votingmachines.panoramiogames.com/votingmachines/autoVM.php?contest=SPC as entry #11. Also, previously posted on Panoramio @ www.panoramio.com/photo/95223455; honored as the cover photo for the Panoramio group "Banderas y estandartes del mundo - All flags and banners"; and, submitted to the August, 2013 Panoramio contest in the category Vertical and to the 2015 October TTT contest @ groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/panoramio-games-competitions/20TSb2_a7dE%5B1-25%5D as entry #43 with the title "Sunny Flags".