Time Lapse of the final launch of the day

Here is a quick time lapse of the final rocket launch of the day by the San Jose team as seen below.  This time lapse was at a frame a second as opposed to my other one that I am assembling which was a frame every 12 seconds (which unfortunately is not quick enough to capture an actual launch).
As you can see, it was a fairly calm day with little wind higher up, the clouds were fairly static

More Spiders Again!

This was a young Black Widow hanging out at the RRS in Mojave, hand held mid-day.

More Spiders!

Had a few more photos approved at the various sites, this one is of a young Black Widow spider, you can see that she is starting to turn black.  I believe that this is the dangerous age for them, when they are more aggressive and don't know how to control the venom so they usually inject the whole load...

New Spiders!

Found this guy in my Neighbor's tree, had a 2 foot web spun.  He didn't like the flash too much as he packed up and left the next morning, never to return....

Man up, this won't hurt a bit!

I can't take credit for this photo, it was taken by my wife. I have a feeling my nephew wants to grow up to be a dentist!

Curiosity

Here's a picture of my nephew Isaac at the Zoo.

Ryan's Prom

While posing for their Prom Portrait, Martha was struck with a case of the giggles, here's Ryan's attempt at being serious!

San Jose Team's Successful Attempt

This launch was of the San Jose team's rocket.  It took a while to get it up and running, but it was a nice clean flight.

TimeLapse of Sugar Launch

Here is a quick timelapse of the launch taken with my old iPhone.  Unfortuantely it goes by pretty quick, but the cloud formation in the background is pretty interesting!

Successful Launch, Failed Recovery

Randy's launch was a success! 

 

However the parachute strap caught on fire and burned through, leaving the nose cone sailing off into the mountains on a gentle breeze while the rest of the rocket came in hard and fast!

The impact buckled the bulkhead of the motor, it looks like it got a little too hot!  It took us a good 15 minutes or so to reach it, and the tailpipe erupted in flames!!

This was the final flight of this camera, it didn't take the landing too well!!  The end of the SD card was a little singed, but on the surface the SD card looked like it may have survived the crash.  Unfortunately though, the SD card was cracked down the middle. :(  If anyone knows how to salvage busted SD cards, drop me a line, I'd love to recover the video from this flight!

Prepping the Rocket

Senior Prom

Here's a Portrait of Ryan on his Senior Prom, he and his girlfriend Martha humored me in the cold wind while I dialed in the exposure, 15 sec at f/16, ISO 200.  Unfortunately the weather was overcast which allowed for just enough ambient light that as they moved around, I caught them in the image.  This was the sharpest one of the sequence, and they wanted to get to the dance!

Short lived frivolity, not completely finished getting back online

So it looks like the links to the photos are all pointing to the original site, which no longer exists, so I will have to go through and manually fix the links... It'll just take a little longer...

AIAA Launch Video

Another launch video from last weekend, this was the San Jose team's rocket.  For this video I just propped the iPhone outside of the Block House to record the launch.