Thanks for some of the thoughts here. I suspect it's easy to give the finger to someone from a speeding car or from orbit in cyberspace. For the record: I didn't solicit anything. I was surprised as hell to get a call from the Smithsonian. And I was honored and blown away by their request. I put those snapshots of mine up there trying to give something back to the community that made room for me. I will not accept money for them. They are there for anyone who wants to use them as illustrations in books, articles, as CD graphics, bathroom decorations, ground cover, wallpaper, or whatever. ------- Yes, I edited them using Photoshop. They now look better than the originals. Those original photographic positive images ---SLIDES--- where what you see is what you get, are what I will eventually be sending to the Smithsonian.

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