I went to Paris, France for an Extrasolar Planets conference in the first week of July, 2003. My poster. Then I met up with a friend of mine from college, Corinne Gilliam, and we visited the beach in Normandy where the Americans landed in 1944.
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This is me in Saint Mare Eglise, the first town liberated in the early morning of June 6, 1944.
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Corinne and an artillery piece.
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Self shot of me and a Jeep -- Joe Spitale's Jeep is probably better, in that it runs :)
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Me and a landing craft, note both American and French flags in background.
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Corinne and me on Utah Beach.
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When I got back to Tucson, I found that the Aspen fire in the Catalina mountains, which has been burning for about 3 weeks now, had dropped drastically in elevation. This is me in front of the fire from my roof, with flash-fill.
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Zoom.
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Supposedly they are evacuating some expensive homes and resorts because they are going to try a backfire to prevent it from burning into the city proper.
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Me again, this time with manual flash fill -- me with a flashlight shone over parts of me.
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This one's a longer exposure (about 16 seconds).
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Labelled version of above photo