Mile High Photographer

Mile High Photographer Full service photographer located in Rockwall, Texas. Portraits, weddings, senior photos and more.

🚀 Liftoff🌎 Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USATwenty-seven engines light at once, three cores strapped together, over fiv...
08/30/2026

🚀 Liftoff

🌎 Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Twenty-seven engines light at once, three cores strapped together, over five million pounds of thrust shoving Falcon Heavy off Pad 39A. Aboard, folded into the fairing, rides the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, headed for a gravitational parking spot a million miles from here where the sun and Earth's pull cancel each other out just enough to hold still. It will see a hundred times more sky than Hubble ever could. Down here, none of that matters yet. Just fire, and the long climb out of the atmosphere that makes all of it possible.

EXIF:
- Camera: Sony a9 III
- Lens: Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
- Focal Length: 800mm
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Shutter: 1/2000 sec
- ISO: 250
- Category: Single Shot
- Date Taken: August 30, 2026

Launch Day. About fifteen minutes away from a Falcon Heavy rocket launching with the Nancy Grace Roman telescope aboard....
08/30/2026

Launch Day. About fifteen minutes away from a Falcon Heavy rocket launching with the Nancy Grace Roman telescope aboard. This wide field telescope will help to study why the expa sion of the universe is speeding up s well as determine if planets are circli g distant stars. The rocket will launch from Pad 39a, the same pad used to launch Artemis II back in April. The building closest to the frame is a Space X facility and the firth building is the United Launch Alliance building. Both are on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket is across the water just above the smaller camera in the frame.

✈️ Transonic🌎 Escambia County, Florida, USANot quite the speed of sound, but close enough to fool the air around it. The...
08/28/2026

✈️ Transonic

🌎 Escambia County, Florida, USA

Not quite the speed of sound, but close enough to fool the air around it. The Prandtl-Glauert singularity forms where local airflow over the airframe outruns the rest of the jet, dropping pressure and temperature just enough to condense moisture into that visible sheet of v***r. Roughly 700 mph, just shy of Mach 1, and the physics doesn't care that the pilot hasn't gotten there yet.

EXIF:
- Camera: Sony a9 III
- Lens: Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
- Focal Length: 486mm
- Aperture: f/9.0
- Shutter: 1/2000 sec
- ISO: 400
- Category: Single Shot
- Date Taken: August 26, 2026

✈️ V***r🌎 Escambia County, Florida, USAA Blue Angels F/A-18 pulls hard into the turn, wings and canopy wrapped in conden...
08/27/2026

✈️ V***r

🌎 Escambia County, Florida, USA

A Blue Angels F/A-18 pulls hard into the turn, wings and canopy wrapped in condensation for the split second the air can't keep up with the maneuver. Gray sky, gray smoke, one streak of navy and gold cutting through both.

EXIF:
- Camera: Sony a9 III
- Lens: Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
- Focal Length: 591mm
- Aperture: f/9.0
- Shutter: 1/1600 sec
- ISO: 250
- Category: Single Shot
- Date Taken: August 26, 2026

It’s hot. It’s humid. It’s a blue bird kind of day. A day with angels.
08/26/2026

It’s hot. It’s humid. It’s a blue bird kind of day. A day with angels.

Rust and Starlight 🔥🌍 DVO Remote Observatory, Nevada, USAIC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula, sits in Cygnus roughly 4,000 light-...
08/20/2026

Rust and Starlight 🔥

🌍 DVO Remote Observatory, Nevada, USA

IC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula, sits in Cygnus roughly 4,000 light-years away — a combination emission and reflection nebula wrapped in the dark dust of Barnard 168, which trails westward from the glowing core like smoke. The whole structure is lit by BD+46 3474, a young B1-class star roughly 14 times the mass of the Sun, still actively forming hundreds of young stellar objects within the surrounding gas. There's a scene in the movie Cocoon where Brian Dennehy pulls his eyelid down to reveal a blaze of hidden light — that's what this felt like. An unremarkable smudge in a dusty, crowded field until enough exposure time and the right processing pulled the real color out: a magenta-pink core, a blue reflection halo close to the ionizing star, and dust lanes rendered in their true rust-brown rather than flat gray.

Captured in HaLRGB — Hydrogen-Alpha blended into the red channel — from the Apertura RC6 hosted remotely at DVO.

EXIF:

Camera: SVBONY SV605MC (Sony IMX533)
Telescope: Apertura RC6
Focal Length: 1400mm, f/9
Pixel Size: 3.76µm
Filters: Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, Hydrogen-Alpha 5nm
Ha: 61 frames × 300s (5h 05m)
Luminance: 181 frames × 120s (6h 02m)
Red: 94 frames × 120s (3h 08m)
Green: 85 frames × 120s (2h 50m)
Blue: 82 frames × 120s (2h 44m)
Total Integration: ~19h 49m
Processing: Siril, AMSP, GraXpert, Linear Match, PixelMath, Siril PCC, Syqon Prism, VeraLux HyperMetric Stretch, StarNet, Photoshop, Lightroom Classic
Date: August 15–17, 2026

08/10/2026

The sky put on a show at a sacred location in the New Mexico desert.

🕊️ Preening🌎 Collin County, Texas, USALast light works its way through the plumes, gold at the tips, thinning to white n...
08/03/2026

🕊️ Preening

🌎 Collin County, Texas, USA

Last light works its way through the plumes, gold at the tips, thinning to white near the base. The egret keeps at its own business, head bent, feathers half-lifted. The branch beneath it died long before this bird was born — a fact the bird finds entirely beneath its notice.

EXIF:

Camera: Sony a9 III
Lens: Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
Focal Length: 800mm
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter: 1/1600 sec
ISO: 1600
Category: Single Shot
Date Taken: July 28, 2026

I have never tried to take a Milky Way photo with my cell phone. Figured I would try. Yes, it is dark out here.
08/03/2026

I have never tried to take a Milky Way photo with my cell phone. Figured I would try. Yes, it is dark out here.

08/03/2026

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