How will this maiden flight be?

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I am currently at a high power rocket event at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. I am uploading this photo via a satellite link, slow but nice to be able to upload a photo!

 

Last night, a very cool rocket called "Light Show" was launched with hundreds of LEDs. The LEDs slowly change the colors. On this shot, the owner signs off this rocket before launch. The flight was initially good, but the parachute did not deploy, so the rocket came down ballistic like a missile with a hissing sound. It buried deep into into the ground near the flight line (line of RVs). Failures happen, it's part of rocketry.

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.

 

Later:

 

I am back home. The image upload in the desert failed with a Flickr based timeout - the connection was too slow. I uploaded the same image also to Facebook, which succeeded via satellite link.

 

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-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC7094_hdr1bal1b

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