Why, in a self designed pyramid house, with the house number attached to the tail section of an aircraft half buried in the ground. Where else? This is a shot I took a couple of months ago of the house of Burt Rutan, the man who designed the X-Prize winning Spaceship One, precursor of the [...]
I’ve just published my Space Lands book on the Blurb website in an 8×10 format. I hope to publish a larger luxury version in 11×14 format in the near future. Some of the pictures featured here are in there, but not all, there are about 40 pictures in total in the book. I chose to [...]
Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2009. Another day, another piece of random rocketry turns up by the side of the road. Tweet This Post Bookmark to Hide Sites $$(‘div.d91′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
This shot was inspired by that ‘slit scan’ sequence in 2001 a space odyssey. Returned from the trip and its been the usual enjoyable trawl through 146 gigabytes of raw files with the predictable ups and downs. Tweet This Post Bookmark to Hide Sites $$(‘div.d68′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
This is the building of the rotary rocket company. The rotary rocket was a contender for the x-prize which was intended to reach space with a single stage rocket engine. Its return to earth would be enabled by unfolding rotor blades which would act like a parachute bringing it’s crew and passengers safely back to [...]
Another from Mojave showing a view through the picture window. Just like any other general aviation cafe except you can see a rocket through the window, and the first civilian spaceship took off and landed from the runway behind me. Tweet This Post Bookmark to Hide Sites $$(‘div.d62′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Apropos of nothing, this faded sign has lost all but a tiny piece of the glass neon tubing. Its abandoned in a field, approximately 20 meters from a freeway that I guess was built a while after the cafe disappeared.
Landed LAX at 18:15, as usual a hard slog to keep awake on the first arrival drive, this time just 100 miles or so to Mojave. As ever the visual landscape is a feast in every direction.
