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"The oil lens was focused on a starship lighter exposed by dawn in the basin below them. The tall eastern face of the ship glistened in the flat light of the sun, but the shadow side still showed yellow portholes from glowglobes of the night."
-from Dune, when Paul and the Fremen see the Padishah Emperor has arrived
That little description always got me thinking about some kind of 50s-style rocket that landed upright. In the years since I first read it, I've come to realize that I'm probably wrong (I didn't understand that the Thufir Hawat at the end is the same guy in the beginning until my second read), but I still loved the idea of a big rocket that just plops down on planets. You'd need some serious anti-gravity to do it, but hey, rule of cool.
Long story short, I've always been into the style, so this is the latest evolution of Awe's quasi-retro rocket series. The real thing wouldn't sit on its thrusters like that, but whatever.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY
The Rocket Thrower is a massive bronze sculpture designed by Donald De Lue (1897–1988) for the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65. ~ www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park/mo...
Olympus E-P2
LUMIX G VARIO 14-42/F3.5-5.6
ƒ/10.0 42.0 mm 1/250 400
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Dames Rockets wildflowers adorn a small meadow every Spring at Spitler Knoll Overlook in the central district of Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
The wind was pretty steady and I struggled to get one keeper shot before the morning sun came over the hill. The wind always seems to blow on my days off work. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the wind? :-)
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What do you do when the whale pops up half in and half out of frame? Crop it so it hopefully works at least a little. This juvenile rocketed straight up towards the boat out over the Bremer Canyon and I wasn't quite ready for it as evidenced by not having the whale completely in frame, but I liked the moment too much to scrap the photo entirely.
Kalyan WDM-3D hauled Mumbai bound Super fast Express aka Rocket jets out of Honnavar tunnel
Sharavati, Honnavara KA
Described as 'A Stargazer's Dream', NASA is launching rockets into the northern lights for the next two weeks, the idea being to 'measure the timing and strength of the energy waves thrown around by this spring’s strong aurora.' (Alaska Public Media)
From my vantage point, I wasn't even aware of the rockets' launch, some 200+ miles away, just north of Fairbanks.
The night of northern lights was coming to a close in the wee hours of the morning, the northern lights were no longer very active and vibrant.
I almost threw out the photos of this series because the lights were not so good, until I noticed the rockets low on the horizon.
They appear low on the left horizon, just above the trees. First one early in the video, the second one near the end.
You wanna fight? I'll give you a fight.
Wait. What? I can't fight with a freaking piece of fungi!
I Am Groot
Okay Groot, I'll just throw it at them, and how's that going to work out?
This rocket was launched from Ny Ålesund, Svalbard in early December to study the upper atmosphere. I was present as part of the team and took the opportunity to try a rocket launch shot on large format film. This was done on my Tachihara with Fuji Provia 100F film. The exposure was started about two hours before launch at f/8 to expose the sky, star trails, and distant landscape. About 30 seconds before launch I stopped the lens down to f/16 to expose the foreground lit by the rocket like a giant flash. I'm fairly proud of getting this on large format film since there's no way to meter or do any kind of test exposure.
Camera: Tachihara 4x5 field
Lens: Caltar-S 135mm f/5.6
Film: Fuji Provia 100F
By igniting the first of some 50+ rockets all lined up in a bracket, they explode like machine-gunfire..... and this is how the sky above the church looks like!!!
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For 9 days, each day another trade/profession will pay for shooting off the hundreds of rockets. the first ones at 6am - then 12 noon - then7pm.... and the Rocket-Castle at 11pm at night.
Saturday was the Bricklayer's turn, always the loudest day of them all!! I went to the yard behind the church from where they'll be launching the rockets. This aparently is not for the public, it's a dangerous undertaking and the gates were closed behind the coheteros. And i was locked in with them, nobody has told me to leave... they let me take pictures!!!
All of a sudden i noticed 5 men were lighting up cigarettes, then the "supplier' brought bundles of rockets and the coheteros started lighting them with their cigarettes, one after the other, holding them between two fingers until they had catched fire before letting go. This is a dangerous and critical moment, because almost instantly after ignition, a huge fire beam would shoot from the rocket to the ground as the rocket was launched... hand-held!!! A total of 1300 rockets were shot up into the air, in a 30-minute time frame, accompanied by a concert of ringing church bells.
Most rockets were launched, as you see here, bare handed!! Others were launched all lined up and stuck in some wooden- or metal frame support. Thus, by igniting the first one, some 50+ rockets would explode simultaneously... like machine-gunfire, Wow, what an experience!!!! - I took a few hundred shots (in brackets), just to catch that beam of fire, but neither the fire-beam, nor the explosions of the rockets up in the blue sky showed up much on my images taken in broad daylight, just a lot of smoke. I will look for a night shot in my archives, where the beam of fire is very visible and impressive.
Like the jet engines on the back of this muscle car, ready to rocket off into the distance...
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It almost looks like a big rocket ship on it's launch pad with its big fuel cell alongside. Maybe it's headed for Mars.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from southern California on September 28, 2025 at 7:04 pm local time with 28 Starlink satellites headed into low Earth orbit. The dots of light in the bottom of the photo are the booster rockets falling back to Earth. Photo taken with a Canon R5 and Canon 100-500 lens.
More names are applied to this pretty "weed" than any other green thing on the planet. Yes, I made that up. Don't quote me. It's roquette, arugula, blah, blah blah…and to me: just rocket, man. Rocket, Eruca vesicaria, comes up fast, lives fast and dies pretty. It deserves so much more respect. You see it stuffed — wilted and yellowing — into those awful supermarket salad bags: washed in chemicals, inflated with who knows what gas; then its fate, like the bag is sealed. Once succulent, fiery, delicious, it is now diminished to a profit centre, a commodity, an afterthought pushed to the side of a plate and destined for the bin.
Not here! Rocket lives up to its name and leaps from the earth in which it is sown. Tough, hardy, tasty, nutritious in the true sense, it copes with cool better than hot. Hot in taste, it bolts to seed when stressed. Or like now, where it has survived Winter in the open, run its race, fed its servants and is now ready to finish its life in a blaze of glorious flowers.
Every common pear, walnut and blue cheese salad rockets to new heights with, err, rocket. You see this wonder used everywhere as a garnish. Why? Why when it can be a star? If you were to make a ragu of minced pork tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and serve it with polenta you'd have basically pig and polenta. Make a pesto, like the Genovese variety using rocket instead of basil and put that on your pig and polenta and it is good. But it is still a garnish. Instead, simply dress your pasta with that same pesto, and slam-dunk, its the MVP, the star!!
Now, about these flowers: they stay, for now, as they bulk up the pollinators that are returning to the garden. Have you ever wondered why, before we got knocked off balance about such things, that the family Brassicaceae was called Cruciferae, the crucifers? A crucifer is a person who carries the crucifix on a stick in a Christian procession. See the similarity? It's never more evident than here in the flowers of rocket, man.
One of the perks of living on the Central Coast of California is being able to see the rocket launches from Vandenberg. This morning SpaceX successfully deployed 10 Iriduim satellites. I get a thrill every time I see one of these rockets take off into space.
Rockets launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, are tracked by antennas across the globe, including three from ESA’s Estrack network.
ESA’s 15-metre antenna in Kourou mainly tracks satellites, but is also used to receive engineering data during selected rocket launches.
The 4.5 and 35 metre antennas in New Norcia, Australia, track rockets delivering their spacecraft into polar, low-Earth, geostationary, lunar and interplanetary orbits, as well as unusual missions such as the Galileo constellation of navigation satellites.
The 5.5-metre antenna on Santa Maria island in the Azores archipelago, Portugal, was originally built to track launches of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), but now tracks Galileo launches.
Credits: ESA
Sprocket Rocket, Ilford HP 5+, Rodinal 1:50
My friend Gloria, 96 years old, WWII veteran, with her protest sign from the Vietnam War.
an unusual shape at BALLS 29. It flew on a soft sparky motor, and rose slowly up into the sky.
6” Diameter O motor cast by Dave Leininger. Cameras on tripod to the right for a sense of scale.