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Let There Be Light!
and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness.
ZOT!
T-minus 10 hours, 43 minutes and counting...
Just prior to RSS Rollback, a highly energetic electric storm sweeps the Cape, striking the pad while my shutter was open - three times! Multiple ground and cloud-to-cloud discharges provide a fitting backdrop to the already charged pre-launch atmosphere.
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The Recovery Crew working close to the timeline. Engineers and technicians swarm over, inside and under the orbiter documenting its post-flight status and preparing her for tow.
Hangin' Out With the Guys
Gripped firmly in the Mate/De-mate Device, the orbiter is safed, stowed, tested, powered down, hoisted into the air and mounted on the spine of the Shuttle Transport Aircraft for the ferry flight to Kennedy Space Center.
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The Right Seat

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Discovery by Panellight

As you can tell, I'm not happy about this.
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The Space Shuttle Main Engines;
genuine engineering works of art - with a punch!
My Favorite Suit
It's been said that clothes make the man...
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- I can live with that...
Stetson's Last Stand at Little Big Hat
If René Magritte had been born
in the American Southwest?
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Pelagia
A water planet orbiting a distant star, its family of moons and evidence in the distance of something large once passing this way.
Limited Edition Print

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Closer
A very dear friend's trimaran, it's aft cabin lights aglow, close hauled on the solar wind of Zeta Orionis on their way to the Horsehead Nebula.
Limited Edition Print
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Lorena Del Campo, a friend and metalsmith living in Big Sur, produces the finest jewelry I have had the pleasure of photographing.
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Her husband, Hans, crafts the most mystical hand-hammered gold and silver boxes I have ever seen. Many, like this one, have crystal geometric shapes as a lid or crown.

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