Mission Control

Photo of the Day

Today I thought that I would go back a bit to show a photo that I would love to get another chance at. In 2006 I had just bought my dSLR, and I really had no idea how to use it. Of course I travelled to some places that I had always wanted to go making pictures along the way. This is one place that I thought was amazing. This is the inside of the blockhouse that actually fired the rocket off. I always thought that it was interesting that they did not have the technology to send an RF signal to the rocket so they just had to run a line from the firing button directly to the rocket. Just outside of those windows a few yards away was the pad that sent Alan Shepard into space in 1961. I would love to go back to NASA with better equipment and the knowledge that I have obtained over that time. I think that I could make some very interesting pictures.

Technical Data

This photo was processed a couple of new ways. The first is that I just downloaded the new set of Trey Ratcliff presets for Lightroom. I think that I am really too much of a realist to use his presets all the time. For that reason I don’t use them that often. I do like what they do for some of my pictures though, and this was one of them. I used his preset Rhymenoceros on it. I think that it gave a feeling that I loved to the picture, and finally allowed me to share it.