LOVELAND, Colo. — A Greeley-based photographer captured an incredible image of a military plane creating a rare, high-velocity phenomenon at the Great Colorado Air Show – and the amazing snap has a wholesome father-son story behind it.

Shawn Mason, an Air Force veteran and a nearly lifelong photographer, made the trip to Loveland last month to photograph the air show with his 17-year-old son, Wyatt.

Shawn said he snapped north of 9,000 photos over the weekend. Digging through the collection he found one – like a “needle in a haystack,” he described – that was too good not to share.

The photo, which he posted in Denver7’s Discover Colorado | Through Your Photos group on Facebook , appears to show a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet creating what’s known as a vapor cone – a visible cloud c

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