Right: From a rig manager in St. John's Newfoundland.  The water was calm
and ths sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get
into the water and click this photo.

The estimated weight is 300 million tons
Taken during the fires in Montana in the summer of 2000.
The firefighter who took the picture won the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
F-18 and sonic boom.
Sixty-fouir searchlights were arrayed on the site of the Twin
Towers of the World Trade Center on March 11,2002, to
mark the six month anniversary of the attack on the buildings
on September 11, 2001.
From the NBC Best Pictures Competition.  The photo at left is a time lapse
photo taken from the Space Shuttle to show the entire Earth at night.  I was
particularly intrigued by the Korean Peninsula.  (It's the small landmass next
to Japan.)  South Korea is almost completly lit, while their neighbors to the
north are in almost total darkness.

That's got to be a metaphor for something.
Every once in a while, you just like to see a picture that looks like you could
have taken it yourself--or of yourself.
The Grand Tetons.
I thought there should be at least one photo on this page that I took myself
.
Oh, come on.  You knew it would be here.
I thought it would be helpful to keep my official photo on
this page, in the event that anyone wants to copy it.
"Whoa! Is that Janet Jackson?"
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The launch of shuttle Discovery at 10:28 a.m., on July 26, 2005
Photographed by William J. Hartenstein
Sunset at the North Pole when the Moon is closest to Earth.