February 2019 — White-throated magpie-jay bird found in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Beautiful Costa Rican Hanging Bridges

February 2019 — Costa Rican howler monkey in a tree.

February 2019 — Costa Rica Flower

February 2019 — Howler monkey in a tree in Costa Rica forest.

February 2019 — Hanging bridges in a Monteverede cloud forest.

February 2019 — Sloth in the Monteverde region of Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Plants at Monteverde Cloud Forest

February 2019 — A walking path in a Monteverde cloud forest.

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February 2019 — Hiking in a Monteverdes Cloud Forest, Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Heavy greenery in Monteverde Costa Rica cloud forest.

February 2019 — Armadillo found in a Monteverde cloud forest in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — A beautiful sunset from the Hidden Canopy Treehouses.

February 2019 — Inside Hidden Canopy Treehouses in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Monteverde Costa Rica Sunset from Hidden Canopy treehouses.

February 2019 — Hidden Canopy Treehouses in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — A Costa Rican road below the Arenal Volcano.

February 2019 — Sloth and baby sloth in a tree in Costa Rica.

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February 2019 — Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica with shadows from the clouds.

February 2019 — The sun sets behind the Arenal Volcano from La Fortuna in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — A woman swimming at the base of the La Fortuna Waterfall in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — A baby sloth with her mom in a Costa Rican tree.

February 2019 — Sunset from the Arenal Observatory Lodge. Looking out at the Arenal Volcano.

February 2019 — A woman hiking on the lava trails below the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Lava Trails around Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica

February 2019 — Arenal 1968 lava field hike in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Arenal 1968 lava flow trails near Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Arenal 1968 lava flow trails near Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Sunset from the Arenal Observatory Lodge in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Hanging bridge in the clouds near the Arenal Observatory in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Clouds covering the top of Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica

February 2019 — Arenal Volcano, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica

February 2019 — Arenal Volcano as seen from Royal Corin Thermal Water and Spa Resort in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Rocks on the shore of Jobo Bay in Costa Rica. Such a beautiful area that's so easy to photograph.

February 2019 — The rocky shore of Jobo Bay near El Jobo in Guanacaste Costa Rica.

February 2019 — The shore of Jobo Bay in Costa Rica on a beautiful sunny morning.

February 2019 — A wild capuchin monkey found along the shore in Jobo Bay. Northwest Costa Rica.

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February 2019 — Jobo Bay near El Jobo in Costa Rica

February 2019 — Sun shining over Jobo Bay in Guantacaste Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Costa Rican cow in Alajuela province, Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Windmills found deep in Costa Rica Guanacaste province.

February 2019 — Mirador Junquillal in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Playa Escondida in Costa Rica

February 2019 — A slighly paved back road in Alejuela province Costa Rica.

February 2019 — Windmills seen near Volcan Cacao in Costa Rica.

February 2019 — All-Inclusive Dreams resort near La Cruz Costa Rica.

February 2019 — What seemed to be an abandoned resort found in El Jobo, Costa Rica.

January 2019 — A -20F day during the Polar Vortex. Looking out under the Third Avenue Bridge near downtown Minneapolis.

January 2019 — The skyway connecting Soo Line Apartments to the Fifth Street Towers.

January 2019 — Located at 120 South 6th St, the 28 story Canadian Pacific Plaza was the tallest building in Minneapolis built in the 1960s.

January 2019 — Fifth Street Towers in Downtown Minneapolis. On the skyway level.

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December 2018 — The Walnut Street bridge over the Fox River near Downtown Green Bay in Wisconsin,.

December 2018 — The Mason Street bridge lit up red and blue in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. The bridge is over the Fox River.

December 2018 — Lombardi Middle School in Green Bay, WI. The school on the city's far west side is named after legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

December 2018 — Tailgate Village, outside of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI.

December 2018 — Downtown Minneapolis from St. Anthony Main.

November 2018 — Some say the Minneapolis City Hall Clock Tower is the largest in the world... There is some conflicting information. But what is known is it is in fact the largest four facing chiming clock in the world.

November 2018 — 625 in Minneapolis

November 2018 — AT&T Tower in downtown Minneapolis from a parking garage.

November 2018 — Target Headquarters in downtown Minneapolis in November 2018.

November 2018 — Headquarters of Target Stores in downtown Minneapolis.

November 2018 — A cute King Charles Cavalier dog sitting on the couch.

November 2018 — Construction on Interstate 35W near Downtown Minneapolis.

November 2018 — Cute King Charles Cavalier dog looking at the camera.

November 2018 — Northeast Minneapolis with US Bank Stadium across the Mississippi River.

November 2018 — The Stone Arch Bridge as seen from Gold Medal Park on November 5, 2018.

November 2018 — Gold Medal Flour in downtown Minneapolis on November 5, 2018.

November 2018 — Gold Medal Flour neon sign in downtown Minneapolis.

October 2018 — Full Moon rising over Minneapolis. As seen from the West Calhoun neighborhood.

October 2018 — The Daytons Project redevelopment project in downtown Minneapolis.

October 2018 — A chandelier and fireplace in the room of an abandoned downtown bank.

October 2018 — Hennepin County Government Center, construction was completed in 1977. While often looked at as a single building, it’s actually 2 different towers with glass in between them. When viewed from the northeast or southeast(such as this photo), the building gives the appearance of the letter H for Hennepin. The towers are accessible from each other via catwalks on each floor. Glass walls were added after multiple suicides.

October 2018 — Bail Bonds and City of Minneapolis Public Service Building banners on fencing around new development.

September 2018 — Winter Park in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, served as the long-time headquarters and training facility of the Minnesota Vikings from its opening in 1981 until the team’s move to the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center in 2018. The low-profile, bunker-like structure was designed to blend into the grassy landscape, housing offices, locker rooms, weight facilities, and the iconic indoor practice field under its distinctive inflated roof. The illuminated building and outdoor practice fields seen here reflect its primary role as a working athletic campus rather than a public venue. Even after operations shifted, the site remained symbolically tied to the team’s formative decades, including the Herschel Walker trade years, early indoor training innovations, and the development of multiple Pro Bowl players.

September 2018 — A walkway inside the Denver International Airport. Passengers wait below for the train to the B Gates as others roll luggage across elevated concourses. The scene captures the constant motion and layered architecture of one of the nation’s busiest air hubs.

September 2018 — Evening light falls over downtown Salt Lake City, with the Wasatch Mountains silhouetted beyond. The historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, built of red sandstone in the Gothic Revival style, stands alongside modern offices and newer brick buildings. The contrast highlights the city’s mix of frontier-era architecture and contemporary growth at the edge of Utah’s mountain corridor.

August 2018 — Inside the now demolished Hopkins Cold Storage facility in Hopkins, Minnesota.

August 2018 — Lake Harriet Park in Minneapolis.

August 2018 — Foggy evening in park near W Bde Maka Ska Blvd in Minneapolis.

August 2018 — The NASA logo illuminated on the side of the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. Established during World War II and later repurposed for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, the vast complex continues to play a central role in U.S. space manufacturing. Today, Michoud supports construction of major components for NASA’s Artemis missions, including the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

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August 2018 — Inside the Vertical Weld Center. The friction-stir-weld tool for wet and dry structures on the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage. It will weld barrel panels together to produce whole barrels for the two pressurized tanks, the intertank, the forward skirt and the aft engine section. More Info: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

August 2018 — Inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the Vertical Weld Center is shown — a precision friction-stir welding system used to join the massive aluminum alloy panels that form rocket fuel tanks and core stages for the Space Launch System. The bright blue and yellow structures are part of the tooling system that ensures millimeter-level accuracy during assembly, critical for the Artemis program’s deep space missions.

August 2018 — Inside the cavernous NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the green-painted structure of a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket component dominates the factory floor. Surrounded by yellow access platforms and intricate piping, this section is part of the massive tooling infrastructure used to assemble and test rocket core stages. Overhead cranes and precision systems support Boeing’s production of “America’s Rocket,” with each stage destined for integration into NASA’s Artemis program to return humans to the Moon.

August 2018 — The interior of the Space Launch System (SLS) fuel tank at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. NASA Core Stage Infographic: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/infographics/corestage101.html Space Launch System: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

August 2018 — The forward skirt section of NASA’s Space Launch System is shown shortly after its final assembly at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. This uppermost segment houses the rocket’s flight computers, avionics, and camera systems, forming the control center that guides the SLS during launch and ascent. Built for Artemis I (Exploration Mission-1), this structure would later be integrated into the core stage for its 2020 launch from Kennedy Space Center.

August 2018 — Inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, an advanced robotic welding system—developed by Genesis Systems Group and Boeing—assembles major components for the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage. Using friction stir welding, the robot precisely joins massive aluminum panels into the rocket’s fuel tanks and structural sections. The process ensures unmatched strength and reliability, critical for the launch vehicle that powers NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

August 2018 — Precision barrel tooling used in the assembly of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage stands on the production floor at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. These fixtures hold massive aluminum panels in place during the friction stir welding process, ensuring perfect alignment and uniform curvature for the rocket’s cylindrical sections. Behind the tooling, the metallic structure of a completed barrel segment can be seen, ready for the next stage of integration.

August 2018 — The inside of a Space Launch System (SLS) barrel used for the liquid hydrogen tank. It’s made of AI 2219, an aerospace aluminum alloy. More Info: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

August 2018 — A long corridor inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans showcases decades of spaceflight heritage through a display of mission patches and crew insignias. Each emblem represents a milestone in American aerospace history — from early shuttle missions to modern exploration programs. The polished concrete floors and fluorescent lighting emphasize the industrial precision of the facility, while the colorful insignias serve as a vivid reminder of the human stories behind the technology.

August 2018 — Looking down into the massive cleaning cell inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. The massive washing facility is used to wash the insides of the Space Launch System(SLS) fuel tanks. The SLS rocket will be the world’s largest rocket ever built.

August 2018 — The towering interior of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where major components for the Space Launch System rocket are fabricated and assembled. The multilevel platforms, access walkways, and heavy structural supports surround the massive Vertical Assembly Area—an environment designed for precision alignment of rocket stages that will power Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

August 2018 — A bright blue and yellow tooling structure dominates this section of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Built by Ascent Aerospace’s Global Tooling Systems division, this heavy-duty platform is part of the specialized infrastructure used to assemble components of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The steel frame supports massive cylindrical sections during alignment and welding, forming part of the precision manufacturing ecosystem that enables Artemis missions to take shape from the ground up.

August 2018 — A Liquid Oxygen tank being worked on inside Cell A at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. It’s part of the Space Launch System Core Stage. The tank will hold 195,000 gallons of liquid oxygen cooled to -297 degrees Fahrenheit.

August 2018 — Inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, this massive blue structure is the Vertical Weld Center, used to fabricate the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The machine employs friction-stir welding to join aluminum panels into large cylindrical sections that form the rocket’s fuel tanks. Operated by precision robotics, the weld center is one of the tallest of its kind in the world and plays a central role in preparing hardware for Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

August 2018 — A high-angle view inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans shows the enormous vertical welding and assembly bays used to build sections of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The towering circular structure on the left is part of the Vertical Weld Center, where cylindrical rocket segments are precisely joined using friction-stir welding. Catwalks and access platforms ring the interior, supporting technicians during construction of the world’s most powerful launch vehicle for the Artemis program.

August 2018 — An elevated view of the overhead gantry crane system inside NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. These yellow steel cranes are used to lift and maneuver rocket sections, including the massive Space Launch System core stages, within the cavernous production hall. The network of platforms, rails, and suspended hooks demonstrates the industrial scale of spacecraft manufacturing that has taken place here since the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.

August 2018 — Looking downward inside the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, this view shows the precision alignment and welding platform used to assemble rocket stages. The towering blue and yellow structure is part of the tooling for the Space Launch System core stage, where massive aluminum sections are friction-stir welded to form part of NASA’s Artemis launch vehicles.

August 2018 — A stairwell winds through the interior of NASA’s Vertical Assembly Center at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The industrial structure, with its orange and blue framework, provides access to various levels of the 170-foot-tall welding system used to assemble core stages of the Space Launch System. The facility supports precision manufacturing for the Artemis program’s heavy-lift rockets.

August 2018 — A view from the upper levels of the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The massive blue structure supports the assembly and welding of the Space Launch System’s core stage, the primary rocket used for Artemis missions. This 170-foot-tall tool precisely aligns and joins large rocket sections, a key part of NASA’s ongoing production of deep space launch vehicles.