Death Comes Out of the Sun

Death Comes Out of the Sun, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

F-22 Raptor at the "Wings Over Marietta" 2008 Air Show on Saturday, October 18, 2008.

Heritage Fly By

Heritage Fly By, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

F-22 Raptor, P-51 Mustang, F-15E

F-22 Raptor in Flight

F-22 Raptor in Flight, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Thunderbirds

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Thunderbirds, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

Shooting most of the day into the sun, this was the results of a happy accident. I thought it came out rather well.

F-22 Raptor

F-22 Raptor, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

This particular F-22 Raptor is the 129th to roll off the assembly line.

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Sunset at Longboat Key, Florida

Sunset at Longboat Key, Florida, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

The Rescue

The Rescue, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

A helpless Sock Monkey gets rescued in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairnes, Australia. Photo taken from an observation window on the boat that took us out to the reef. The hand is of my friend, John Daniels, who has a very good photostream on Flickr. We went to Australia together in 2006.

No Vacancy at the Underwood

No Vacancy at the Underwood, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

On Highway 301 in Florida.

San Jacinto Monument

San Jacinto Monument, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

"In future time, then may the pilgrim's eye see here an obelisk point toward the sky...."
— Anonymous poet

The above prediction was penned in the poem: “Ode to San Jacinto”, even before the Republic of Texas became the State of Texas. Today, the world’s tallest war memorial stands at San Jacinto—15 feet taller than the Washington monument—honoring all those who fought for Texas's independence.

Immediately after the Battle of San Jacinto, the land—then privately owned—commanded respect from all who walked on its soil. The Texas Veterans Association began planning a formal monument, and the state finally received funding to purchase land in the 1890s.

After years of pushing by the Sons and Daughters of the Republic of Texas, as well as help from President Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones—a prominent Houstonian—its proponents raised enough money to build a fitting monument. And the time was right, with San Jacinto’s 100-year anniversary at hand.

The design was the brainchild of architect Alfred C. Finn, engineer Robert J. Cummins, and Jesse H. Jones. Construction ran from 1936 to 1939. With continued support, the San Jacinto Museum Historical Association has occupied the facility since its doors first opened.

Its builder was the Warren S. Bellows Construction Company of Dallas and Houston. The monument building alone—apart from its great historical significance—is worth a trip to the San Jacinto Battleground Historical State Park. At 570 feet, this Texas giant one of the finest examples of Moderne (Art Deco) architecture in the United States. The monument has been recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The museum is located in the base of the monument, greeting visitors with bronze doors emblazoned with the six flags of Texas. The base is 125 feet square, with text panels highlighting significant events in history leading up to and resulting from the Texas Revolution.

The shaft itself is octagonal, 48 feet at its base, 30 feet at the observation level and 19 square feet at the base of its crowning jewel—a 220-ton star made from stone, steel and concrete. Despite the scale, danger and novelty of the project, not a single life was lost during its construction.

Solar Windmill

Solar Windmill, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

Windmill in Pittsburg, Texas.

DANGER: Coober Pedy Mine Sign, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

This photo was included in Cabinet Magazine in New York. My photo was featured in issue #30 "The Underground". The theme was underground.

Jump!

Jump!, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

Sydney Opera House.

Remember the Alamo

Remember the Alamo, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

It's hard to get a shot of the Alamo without people in it.

Fremont Street

Fremont Street, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

From my one and only visit to Las Vegas in August of 2002. I used a post in the road as an anchor point to keep the camera movement down to a minimum.

Wading for the Right Moment

Wading for the Right Moment, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

New South Wales, Australia
Lake Tuggerah
Chittaway Point

1955 Pontiac Starchief Hardtop

1955 Pontiac Starchief Hardtop, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

Droste Watch

Droste Watch, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

My grandfather's pocketwatch but with a "twist". I used a program called mathmap to create the spiral effect and recombined the results with the original shot to overlay the face of the watch with the resulting image from mathmap.

Cherry Abduction

Cherry Abduction, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

The aliens like fruit...

Drowning in a Sea of Grass

Drowning in a Sea of Grass, originally uploaded by The Rocketeer.

This shot was taken around the home I used to live in when I was in Houston, TX. This fire hydrant (along with a half dozen others in the area) either sunk or was half buried when they finished the subdivision. At least the top part was still visible and the area around it was dug away enough so that if it needed to be used, it could have been. I replaced the sky with a dradient blue in Photoshop and increased the saturation to complete this image.

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