They’re drones. The technology behind planes that are piloted remotely has been around since the Vietnam War, when the U.S. Navy ran secret missions to collect photo intelligence. Drone ...

Veerman, who wears eyeliner even for a day working in the desert and whose tattooed forearms are embedded with cactus spines ... as they recover. Drones routinely zip overhead, taking thousands ...

or an overhead perspective of last year’s Mountain Fire. If that sounds cool to you, you just have no idea how giddy we get about it. Desert Sun photojournalist Jay Calderon, who had the most use of ...