Ward’s Mountain
Taboganning on Ward’s Beach after a particularly heavy snowfall. What could be better?
Crossings
Ice sailing under winter clouds on the frozen inner harbour, as the Ongiara sails past. Click image to view larger.
Cool Place To Park
Perching on one of the last intact ice floes of 2004, looking for panoramic photo opportunities. Click image to view larger.
Gala Weekend 2011 – Dock Jumping
The ramp is back in 2011. Unseen for a few years, the MOFYC dock jump was back in action for Gala Day 2011. Jesse does a full Nancy K boatlength in the final image.
Gala Weekend 2011 – Bridge Jumping
Traditional bridge jumping from the Algonquin Island bridge on Gala Day 2011.
Gala Weekend 2011 – The Women’s Fascinators
Some of the Women’s Fascinator 2011 challengers. Click panorama to view larger.
Gala Weekend 2011 – The Fire
Special thanks to Sam for taking over duties as Fire Master this year. Willa managed to summon the spirit of the bonfire, you can see it looking back at her in image #5.
Gala Weekend 2011 – The Parade
Shadowland’s parade and show in the field for Gala Weekend 2011. Those stilted chicken costumes were just fabulous.
Wonderful Profile
Space shuttle Atlantis leaps from the launch pad on the final flight of the space shuttle program as STS-135. Burning over 20,000 lbs of fuel every second, Atlantis will accelerate to 28,000 km/h over the course of eight minutes.
Handoff to Houston
Space shuttle Atlantis clears the tower on the final launch of the space shuttle program, STS-135. Once clear of the tower, control is transferred from the Kennedy Space Centre to Mission Control in Houston for the duration of the flight.
Straight Up
A view of space shuttle Atlantis as she stops for the media during rollover from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Fab Four
The final four astronauts of the space shuttle program (from left to right Mission Specialist Rex Walheim, Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialist Sandy Magnus) walk with space shuttle Atlantis during rollover, moving the shuttle from the OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility) to the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) for lift and mate with […]
Economies of Scale
Photographers set up a line of remote cameras beneath launch pad 39A, as space shuttle Atlantis points purposefully skyward on the eve of her final launch.
Atlantis Details
Some closeup details of space shuttle Atlantis during her final rollover reveal surprisingly complex surfaces. Top: reinforced carbon carbon panels and tiles on the port wingtip. Center: thermal blankets on the port OMS pod and covered RCS thrusters. Bottom: nose details with RCC cap, TPS tiles, and thermal blankets.
Mission Quilt
NASA employees at the Kennedy Space Centre display a quilt in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building of every single mission patch dating back to 1981’s STS-1. Photo: Michael Spooneybarger.
Camera Wall
A wall of cameras line the shoreline of the press site at Kennedy Space Centre for the final launch of the space shuttle program.
Important Business
A gentleman conducts Important Business on his phone as Atlantis reaches for the clouds during the final launch of the space shuttle program.
Monsoon Season
A remote camera set up on a dry lake bed captures space shuttle Atlantis clearing the tower during launch of STS-135. Heavy rains preceding launch day dramatically changed the nature of this photograph, turning the foreground from a brilliant landscape of caked and broken earth to something approaching a mudbowl.
Toothpick
An American alligator, common at the Kennedy Space Centre, chews on a toothpick outside one of NASA’s administrative buildings.
Booster Max Q
Condensation clouds form around the nose of Atlantis’ solid rocket boosters as the space shuttle makes the transition to supersonic speed. The effect can be seen below, in a frame taken from one of NASA’s HD video cameras mounted to the External Tank: