An aerial view of the western end of downtown Austin, Texas with the Google buildings in the foreground and The Independent in the centre. This image was taken...
The University of Texas at Austin seen just before sunrise on August 6th, 2023. The original “40 Acres” is now something around 1600 acres...
An aerial view of downtown Austin, Texas with the home of University of Texas Longhorn football, Texas Memorial Stadium, in the foreground.
Rounding out this collection of images taken from Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art with its newly installed “Petals”, here’s a slightly...
A view of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin seen framed by the Petals in the Blanton Museum of Art plaza.
The centrepiece of the recent grounds redesign at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin is this installation, The Petals. Twelve, 40 foot tall, curved sculptures...
A line of aircraft on the apron at Kingsbury Aerodrome during the May 7th, 2022 fly-in at Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas.
The owner of one of the vintage cars on display during the May 7th, 2022 fly-in at Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas has a bit of fun with his license...
The curves of a front fender and headlight on one of the vintage cars on display during the May 7th, 2022 fly-in at Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas.
The University of Texas Erwin Center was home to the Longhorn basketball teams from 1977 to 2022 and the venue of choice for many large, touring rock shows...
Here’s a slightly more conventional skyline image of Austin, Texas taken about two hours after yesterday’s picture from a location just north...
This was about as good as the sunrise light got yesterday morning as I flew the drone to capture some skyline images from the east of downtown. While the sky isn’t...
We’re heading home today after our week in Huntsville. Here’s a picture I took on the way up last weekend during an overnight stop in Louisiana....
The last of this series of images of the US Space and Rocket Center’s A-12 shows the front of the aircraft. The Oxcart is on static display in front...
A detail of the rear of the A-12 Oxcart at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama showing the afterburner exhaust and some control surfaces.
I did a bit more reading about the A-12 after posting yesterday’s image. It was a slightly shorter, slightly faster version of the aircraft that...
I was delighted to see what I thought was an SR-71 Blackbird in the static display at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. On closer...
This Apollo command module, nicknamed “Casper” by its crew, was launched on April 16th, 1972 and took Apollo 16 crew John Young (later to command...
The nose of a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and portion of the external tank as seen at the US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama...
We visited the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama this morning and, as a bona-fide space nerd, I had a fantastic time. Usually, I would...
