Trip Tuesday – 3, 2, 1…. – Dec 31, 2014

On New Years Eve it seems kind of appropriate to have a picture for today’s post that has a count down.  It isn’t directly related to New Years but it does fit the trip theme for the day.  This picture was taken at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the tour that is available beyond the main area.  The tour takes you to a few places including a spot where you can see where the space shuttles were launched from and also a large building dedicated to the Apollo series of space missions – very cool place.

This photo is taken in the Apollo building during a mock up show of what the control room looked like during the launch of those missions.  I set up my camera to not flash and to work well in low light – I also had it on a monopod so that any shake of my hand would be less noticeable.  Came out with a very cool shot at 1 second to launch – very cool tour – highly recommended.

Kennedy Apollo launch simulation
Kennedy Apollo launch simulation

Trip Tuesday – Kennedy Space Center and our Son – Dec 17th, 2013

For this one I decided on a pic of our son on an excursion to the Kennedy Space Center.  We were staying near Disney World in a townhouse rental for 3 weeks in January 2010.  During that trip we did a few different runs away from the core Disney World area and one of those trips was the Space Center.

Our son was 3.5 at the time and our daughter was about 14 months – needless to say they got a bit bored after a while…and maybe a bit loopy.  As highlighted by this pic.

I did get a nice pic of the boy just standing there smiling but this picture is just more…well…him.

We didn’t through the whole center in one day so my brother and I came back just ourselves to finish it another day and I went crazy with the camera but this was definitely a good capture that first day.

T at Kennedy Space Center - NASA
T at Kennedy Space Center – NASA