Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ƒ/2.8
16 mm
1/0
3200

I launched my clear fiberglass Nike Smoke rocket – festooned with gyrating color from various LED sequencers – through the Big Dipper… with an Aerotech Green Mojave J500 motor.

She drifts back to the playa, silently swirling, with white spotlights splashing across two satin white parachutes… a tango in the sky, replete with disco lights below.

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28 responses to “Night Operations”

  1. Now that is pretty clever. Neat idea.

  2. Ah. Rockets and poetry. Yes.

  3. Really enjoy this one!

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  4. Amazing how the rocket lights the field!

  5. Cool shot! Looks really good on black, BTW…

  6. Too cool! Love the color and pin point holes in the sky
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    Seen in the group"XploreMyPix! (Must have 20 faves; see rules)" (?)

  7. Damnation, I’m going to have to favourite this one as well 🙂

  8. Really neat photography, and two hobbies in one!

  9. i don`t know what it is. maybe something like a rocket. very nicely done.

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  10. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Creative Commons- Free Pictures, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

  11. Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Beautiful Night Image 夜景, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

    Excellent work !

  12. Excellent work ! Was seen in Beautiful Night Image.
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/1344849@N22

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