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It's not rocket science - or, is it?

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In September 2014 we joined a high power rocket event at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. At that time a very cool rocket called "Light Show" was launched at night with hundreds of LEDs. The LEDs slowly changed colors. On this shot, the owner signs off his rocket before launch. The flight was good at first, but the parachute did not deploy, so the rocket came down ballistic with a hissing sound like a missile. It buried deep into into the ground near the flight line. Failures happen, it's part of rocketry.

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.

 

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC7083_hdr1bal1b

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Uploaded on April 26, 2016
Taken on September 12, 2014