
- ©Joel Kowsky/USGA
About a month back I traveled out to Bethesda, Maryland to be part of a team of photographers covering the US Open for the United States Golf Association. Until the US Open the only golf that I had shot was the few events that the University of Missouri hosted each year, nothing on the scale of the Open. It took me a few of the practice round days to get into the swing of things, but after that it was a blast.

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA

©Joel Kowsky/USGA
I had the opportunity to work with some great people over the course of the week I spent at Congressional, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. Maybe I’ll get to do it again next year…

I’ve spend the past week or so in Florida prepping for the final launch of the Space Shuttle Program. After bad weather earlier in the week and a forecast that we were sure wouldn’t allow for a launch, space shuttle Atlantis embarked on the 135th and final mission of Shuttle Program. I feel privileged to have been able be part of this chapter of American history and see the shuttle fly for the final time. Now onto landing!





I made the trek back to Florida for the final rollout of the space shuttle program and the landing of Endeavour. Atlantis started her journey out to the pad on evening of May 31 and finished in the early hours of June 1 just as Endeavour was landing a few miles away at the SLF.







Watch for a blog post of some polaroids from this trip and from the launch of STS-134. Keep an eye on spaceshuttlepolaroids.com in the coming weeks for some exciting things.