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Sunset at the North Pole when the Moon is closest to Earth.

The launch of shuttle Discovery at 10:28 a.m., on July 26, 2005 Photographed by William J. Hartenstein

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.

Taken during the fires in Montana in the summer of 2000.  The firefighter who took the picture won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography.

Left: Shuttle launch at dawn.

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

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.

F-18 and sonic boom.

Every once in a while, you just like to see a picture that looks like you could have taken it yourself--or of yourself.

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?"

Oh, come on.  You knew it would be here.

The Grand Tetons.  I thought there should be at least one photo on this page that I took myself.