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Mechanical Engineer, Pokémon trainer, photographer and sometimes an artist ................

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DTSF

Shot on canon R5

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Laya in SF

Shot on Leica M10

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Always making touch grass 😪

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Morning light

Shot on canon R5

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50mm

Shot on Leica M10

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4th floor

Shot on Canon R5

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The light set up

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I didnt want to plan shoots this month but I planned like 5 already

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50mm in black and white

Shot on Leica M10

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nightlight

Shot on Canon R5

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Me: I dont fixate on things

Also me: spends 3 days looking for the right lantern

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Photos on the coast

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i hate a “notifications silenced” ass mf

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

Post-Starship launch camera carnage:

SpaceX retrieved and has begun disseminating the camera equipment of media photographers positioned inside the orbital launchpad at Starbase prior to last month's Starship flight. Thanks to Ryan of @considercosmos for picking up my gear yesterday and sending these photos.

Placed just over 700 feet from the most powerful rocket launch in history, these two @NikonUSA D7500 cameras, lenses, and two @MiopsTrigger sustained significant damage and are just barely recognizable. That said, they were identifiable as mine and I’m thankful to the SpaceX team for their coordination efforts to begin returning everyone’s gear.

Despite the damage, they do look kind of cool! A nice office display awaits.

Regrettably, the memory cards from both of my cameras were either destroyed or lost completely. With that, no images of mine captured from this location exist. Although the plume generated at ignition probably obscured the cameras' views immediately, even a single shot of ignition with Starship on the pad would have provided an epic image and served as a long-lasting documentation of such an awesome and exciting launch. I hope that with the random luck of the draw we soon see images from some memory cards that might have survived.

That's sometimes how this kind of photography work plays out. It only makes things sweeter when they do pan out! It stings, but nothing I can do about it now.

Luckily these weren’t my only remote cameras, and I also shot the launch from a few miles away. (See those photos here: https://t.co/Xf75tkkIBN)

Personally, I don’t mind the total loss of the equipment. This was a risk we all took willingly and excitedly in hopes to tell the story in the unique ways we are fortunate to be offered. After seeing how my outside-the-pad cameras fared a few weeks ago, I immediately began replacing everything, expecting this stuff to be totaled, which it was. Fortunately that means my entire remote camera kit is already back to what it was before this launch!

I’m grateful for SpaceX's efforts in locating and beginning to return our equipment and for Ryan/@considercosmos's help in grabbing my cameras and providing these photos of them.

Onto the next one!

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Kodachrome on the R5

Model: My-Tien

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Green grass

Shot on Leica M10

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Nighttime

Shot on Leica M10

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Blossom season

Model: Jenny

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The coast is pretty this time of year

Shot on Leica M10