I am, actually, a 'rocket scientist', having spend the last 40 plus years as a Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. I've been privileged to work on some of our most exciting solar system exploration missions, including Voyager, Galileo and the current Cassini mission to the Saturn system. During my career I've seen digital imaging go from a complex specialty requiring large teams of technical experts and rooms full of computers to a wonderfully flexible creative tool one can pursue with a hand-held camera, a laptop, and commercially available...more
