Photos of Stuff posted to Michael Seeley's Flickr page.

WGS10 by United Launch Alliance

On Friday, March 15, 2019 United Launch Alliance overcame a number of technical issues to successfully launch the WGS10 satellite atop a DeltaIV Medium rocket. This is a close-up of the RS68A rocket engine and two of the four solid rocket boosters, captured with a sound-activated camera placed at the pad. Five or more filters were applied in Color Efex4 to give the shot a moody look.

WGS10 by United Launch Alliance

So Much Power. The @ulalaunch #WGS10 #DeltaIV rocket, seen from the pad, captured with sound-activated cameras. (Bonus: The cameras survived the encounter!)

WGS10 by United Launch Alliance

So Much Power. The @ulalaunch #WGS10 #DeltaIV rocket, seen from the pad, captured with sound-activated cameras. (Bonus: The cameras survived the encounter!)

WGS10 by United Launch Alliance

Liftoff! We had an amazing view of the United Launch Alliance #DeltaIV #WGS10 launch, seen here from Melbourne, 25 miles south of CCAFS. Congratulations to Tory Bruno the ULA team! (And thanks to 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. for their always great support.

Es'hail2 Falcon9 by SpaceX on 35mm film

Another shot that arrived last week from the film processing lab, this is the November 15, 2018, #SpaceX #Falcon9 launch of the #Eshail2 communication satellite. The film had been sitting in the camera with just one exposure. I was dragging my feet because I didn't think it was exposed correctly, but I finally decided to send it off to be developed. I was shooting next to Craig Bailey on his roof, the Florida Today building at the Kennedy Space Center Press Site (thanks, Craig!). The launch time was 3:46 pm, so I needed a 10-stop filter. I only had a 67mm filter, and the FD 100-300mm lens takes a 58mm filter. So I needed to resort to two stacked step-up rings. To my delight, the filter worked, maybe even too well, producing this moody (and underexposed) spectacle. When I shared the photo with my We Report Space colleagues, Bill Jelen addressed the dated look of the image and said "Fifty years from now, people will be saying 'Look how old fashioned those cars and bus look!' " Details: Fuji Velvia 50 35mm slide film, shot in a Canon A1 with a Canon FD 100-300mm lens at 30-seconds and f22 through a 10-stop ND filter. The Darkroom did the processing and scan. To compare with the DSLR version of this shot: flic.kr/p/2cRNQQj

Rawr.

Alligator at the Viera Wetlands in Viera, Florida.

DM1 (crew capsule) by SpaceX

Delayed for processing and, just in time for the #CrewDragon's return to port: This is the #SpaceX #Demo1 #Falcon9 launch early last Saturday morning (2:49am ET, March 2) seen on Kodak Ektachrome 100 35mm film. My thanks again to James Dean, Emre Kelly and Craig Bailey for letting me shoot on their roof. Their coverage for Florida Today is really great and if you're not following them you should be. (The two silhouettes disembodied by the light from the parking lot are from the Florida Today team; I was too busy fussing with cameras to notice who they were.) Shooting film continues to be a test of my patience, as I just received the scan of the transparency film this evening, almost a week after the launch, but it sure is fun seeing the results. Details: Picture by me using Kodak Ektachrome 100 transparency film in a Canon Elan7 with a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens. The exposure time was approximately 15-minutes at f22.

Demo 1 (DM1) by SpaceX

"Gaffers tape is your friend" or, "50.6 megapixels of fail" (alternate title) I rented a Canon 5DS R for the SpaceX Demo1 launch. I used it at the pad for some very high-resolution shots of the Crew Dragon. For the launch, I assumed it would produce a photo superior to my "main" camera. I had been watching the lightning over the Atlantic for the 45 minutes or so I was setting up, but for some reason, it took me until T minus 45 seconds to realize it might be possible to capture the lightning in a long-exposure launch streak. All I needed to do was pan right. After fighting with the tripod head for 25-seconds, I panned right. I didn't realize until approximately 234-seconds later that I had bumped the zoom from 16mm to 23mm, producing this image, the highest-resolution botched shot I've ever taken. (I missed the top two-thirds of the streak.) Luckily I was also running my "main" camera (panned left) and that image came out alright, but, I didn't have any lightning in the picture.

DM1 (crew capsule) by SpaceX

The #SpaceX #DM1 launch was a very big step toward being able to launch astronauts from US soil, possibly as soon as July/August of this year. The launch (and landing!) seems to have proceeded nominally thus far. These are some of my photos taken Friday, March 1, 2019 during remote camera setup and, of course, during the launch on Saturday, March 2 at 2:49am (ET). With apologies to photo purists, this spectacle is a composite (obviously) of the meaga-dewy launch streak I captured from the pad (that shot appears later in this album) and the last shot I took with the camera, approximately 14 hours earlier.

DM1 (crew capsule) by SpaceX

The #SpaceX #DM1 launch was a very big step toward being able to launch astronauts from US soil, possibly as soon as July/August of this year. The launch (and landing!) seems to have proceeded nominally thus far. These are some of my photos taken Friday, March 1, 2019 during remote camera setup and, of course, during the launch on Saturday, March 2 at 2:49am (ET). Crew access arm + Crew Dragon = the coolest. (Bonus: People for scale)

DM1 (crew capsule) by SpaceX

SpaceX DM1 launch

On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:49am (ET), SpaceX successfully launched the Crew Dragon capsule on a demo flight to the International Space Station. This was captured from the roof of the Florida Today building. (Pic: me / We Report Space)

SpaceX DM1 launch

On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:49am (ET), SpaceX successfully launched the Crew Dragon capsule on a demo flight to the International Space Station. This is a 218-sec exposure captured from the roof of the Florida Today building. (Pic: me / We Report Space)

NusantaraSatu Falcon9 First Stage Returns

Sunday morning on the Space Coast: surfers, rowers and a rocket. Welcome home to the thrice flown (and thrice landed) #SpaceX #NusantaraSatu #Falcon9 first stage! (Pics: me / We Report Space)

NusantaraSatu Falcon9 First Stage Returns

Sunday morning on the Space Coast: surfers, rowers and a rocket. Welcome home to the thrice flown (and thrice landed) #SpaceX #NusantaraSatu #Falcon9 first stage! (Pics: me / We Report Space)

NusantaraSatu Falcon9 First Stage Returns

Sunday morning on the Space Coast: surfers, rowers and a rocket. Welcome home to the thrice flown (and thrice landed) #SpaceX #NusantaraSatu #Falcon9 first stage! (Pics: me / We Report Space)

NusantaraSatu Falcon9 First Stage Returns

Sunday morning on the Space Coast: surfers, rowers and a rocket. Welcome home to the thrice flown (and thrice landed) #SpaceX #NusantaraSatu #Falcon9 first stage! (Pics: me / We Report Space)

500px Gallery: Photos of Stuff

Fishing at sunset

Superbowl Sunday Sunset

Fisherman at sunset

Lake Washington fisherman at #sunset in Melbourne, Florida, April 24, 2016.

Vernal Equinox Sunset - 2016

Welcome to Spring: a couple watches the cloudy but still pretty #‎equinox #‎sunset, looking due east over Lake Washington, Florida.

Sunrise in Florida

Losing an hour of sleep didn't stop people from enjoying the #sunrise in Satellite Beach, Florida on March 13, 2016.

Downtown LA from the Griffith Observatory

Photos taken on the evening of January 28, 2016 from the Griffith Observatory, high above downtown Los Angeles.

SES9 Falcon9 Launch by SpaceX

T+90 seconds into the flight of the Falcon9 rocket. The plume is lit by the sunset. The sunset was about 10 minutes prior to the launch.

SES9 Falcon9 Launch by SpaceX

153 second exposure of the Falcon9 rocket carrying the SES9 satellite, launched by SpaceX on March 4, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

SES9 Falcon9 Launch by SpaceX

Liftoff of the Falcon9 rocket

"What are you looking at?"

Photos of a very photogenic Blue-throated Macaw at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida.

Beach sunrise

Sunset in Melbourne, Florida, September 13, 2015

Beautiful sunset in Melbourne, Florida seen from Nail Farms on September 13, 2015

Watercolor

Sunrise over the Indian River Lagoon, September 10, 2015. Seen from Melbourne, Florida.

Sunrise at the beach

#‎Sunrise, August 15, 2015, captured at 6:52am from Seagull Park in Satellite Beach, Florida. Confession: This is probably my first proper beachside sunrise since moving to Florida. I was a little wrapped up in the sunrise, and I was also trying to get away from this one fisherman in particular who seemed determined to be in my frame (although these birds in this shot were in fact kind enough to move out of the shot) so I didn't notice the small crowd that had gathered. When I turned around to leave, nearly 30 people had gathered at the deck and stairs to silently watch the sunrise.

Monday morning sunrise

This is the sun rising over Merritt Island seen from Melbourne, Florida Monday morning, August 10, 2015 at 6:53am