Jerome Arizona

Rest

I liked the posterized version of this cemetery shot.

Contrast and Composition

Prismatic Spring

What a great shot of the Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone (by my friend Steve Graham).

Reflections on Reality

This image is actually a very small portion of a much larger photo I took recently in Arizona (it's about 1/20th of the entire photo which I may post separately).  It is not "Photoshopped" other than to clean up some pixelation since it is so highly enlarged.

Here's the entire photo:

From a Recent Trip to St. Louis

A Couple of SD Photos

Interesting Species

NASA

Random thought: through 2011, the space shuttle program cost about $196 billion (in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation). What were the objectives for this program? what were the accomplishments? There about 100 million people in the United States that pay taxes, so that almost $2,000 per taxpayer. As a taxpayer, do you feel as though this was money well spent? And, by the way, that's only about 1/2 to 1/3 of NASA's total budget.