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Description: Dodge Powerwagon Ambulance operational during the Korean War

Description: This is 8 minutes of flight time of a Falcon 9 launching the Transporter 7 mission from the California Central Coast on 14 April 2023. This image shows the first stage burn, second stage burn and the first stage booster turn, deceleration burn and return landing. This image is a compilation of 4 separate photographs to provide the collective time exposure with minimal star drift.

Description: First 3 minutes of flight of a Minuteman III FTU-2 test launch from Vandenberg AFB, CA on 5 Feb 2020.

Description: Minuteman III ICBM Test Launch, GT 245 launches from California 9 Feb 2023, Note: in this full size image you can see the constellations of Orion, Taurus and Pleiades.

Description: This a smaller cropped image of the GT 245, Minuteman III ICBM Test Launch on 9 Feb 2023

Description: The Tycho crater is approximately 86km across and almost 5 Km deep. It is named after a Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe. The "Rays" (lanes of ejected dust) radiate up to 1500 Kms from the crater.

Description: Falcon 9/ DART mission launched from California's Central Coast, 23 November 2021 at 10:21 PM. Photo taken from the Los Padres National Forest 36 miles north of the pad.

Description: This wide angle long exposure image shows the primary boost phase of flight for the NASA JPL InSight Mission

Description: Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE rising over Santa Barbara wine country in the minutes just before dawn on July 11th, 2020.

Description: Minuteman ICBM test launch, GT 244 as viewed from Los Padres National Forest, 33.8 miles east of the launch complex.

Description: 231 Second exposure of a Minuteman II ICBM test flight from CA on 2 Oct 2019.

Description: Minuteman III ICBM Development Test Launch in California

Description: MMIII ICBM launches from LF-09 on California Central Coast as part of a scheduled flight test program. Photograph taken from Los Alamos CA 22 miles SE from launch facility on a Nikon D810a.

Description: Test Launch of Minuteman III ICBM, GT 239 GM from Californias Central Coast.

Description: Minuteman III, GT228

Description: Minuteman III ICBM Test Launch from Vandenberg AFB CA, 31July 2018.

Description: A simple shot of the moon while I was waiting to image the launch of Minuteman Missile test from Vandenberg AFB, CA. This image was take with a Nikon D810a DSLR mounted on an 80 mm apochromatic refractor.

Description: GT 226GM, Minuteman III ICBM test launch from Vandenberg AFB, CA as viewed from the San Rafael Wilderness 33.8 miles due east of the launch facility.

Description: Light painting Joshua Trees in the Owens Peak Wilderness area using Cyalume light sticks.

Description: SpaceX Falcon 9 launched and returned to Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg AFB, CA

Description: This series of images captures the power of the raging surf pounding against the rocky coast as the sun slips off the horizon. Its just too bad there isn't an audio track to accompany the images. The acoustic energy of the air trapped between the wave face and the rock as it strikes makes its all very palpable and makes the whole experience very visceral.

Description: 82 minutes of Earth rotation to create these star trails. This is a composite of 82 separate 30 second exposures with 30 seconds between each shot.

Description: This image shows first/second stage separation with the beginning of the booster return maneuver.

Description: This series of images captures the power of the raging surf pounding against the rocky coast as the sun slips off the horizon. Its just too bad there isn't an audio track to accompany the images. The acoustic energy of the air trapped between the wave face and the rock as it strikes makes its all very palpable and makes the whole experience very visceral.

Description: This series of images captures the power of the raging surf pounding against the rocky coast as the sun slips off the horizon. Its just too bad there isn't an audio track to accompany the images. The acoustic energy of the air trapped between the wave face and the rock as it strikes makes its all very palpable and makes the whole experience very visceral.

Description: Joshua Trees under a rising Milky Way.

Description: This series of images captures the power of the raging surf pounding against the rocky coast as the sun slips off the horizon. Its just too bad there isn't an audio track to accompany the images. The acoustic energy of the air trapped between the wave face and the rock as it strikes makes its all very palpable and makes the whole experience very visceral.

Description: The Trucks of Paradise Valley

Description: This shot sunrise photo was taken in a small town of Paradise Valley Nevada. This western town is a Nevada landmark lost in time.

Description: The long exposure shot of the NASA JPL InSight spacecraft launching from Vandenberg AFB CA is just the beginning of the 6 month flight phase of the mission to reach Mars and study its geology. InSight was the first west coast interplanetary mission launched from Vandenberg AFB, CA.

Description: GT 228, Camera 1

Description: Three Phases of the Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse of 2018

Description: Junkyards are always cool places for a gearhead but add a full moon and a few chem-sticks and they come to life and very surreal fashion.

Description: Another image of the sunrise through the old growth canopy of the Hoh Rainforest in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington

Description: The air was so clean you can smell it. Don't you just wish every day was like that?!

Description: Recent monsoon weather pattern brought interesting clouds and lighting into the Central Coast and provided and interesting tapestry for the Minuteman Missile to fly through.