Space Shuttle Discovery Launch

[SilverPenguin]

Well, we went and watched Discovery launch whilst I was in Florida. An AMAZING experience to witness...it was a post sunset launch and something I'll not forget in a hurry!

A couple of shots below but there are more, along with a more detailed write up in my blog article, here.

Lift off

Discovery cuts through the last high up rays of sunlight, casting a beam of shadow across the air.

The two solid rocket boosters detach from discovery

 

[SilverPenguin]

Nope that's fair enough (despite the subtle sarcasm about everyone adoring my photos ). Web sized doesn't help with that as the Nasa building is a bit lost in the second shot!

To each their own

 

[SilverPenguin]

Thanks Willis, appreciated. I'm actually printing the second shot up as it looks nice large res with that tiny Nasa building (which is actually HUGE) giving the image a big scale...but, it's that shadow cast across the sky that makes it memorable for me as I've never seen anything like that before!