Ron Rigdon

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

Passion of The Christ🇻🇦🩸 “Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel that playing the character of Christ was going to be very difficult and that if he accepted, he most likely would be marginalized by Hollywood. Caviezel asked for a day to think about it and his response to Mel who was funding and directing the movie was: "I think we have to make it, even if it is difficult." And something else, my initials are J.C., and I am 33 years old. "I didn't realize that until now." Mel responded with “You're really scaring me you know.” During filming, Jim Caviezel who plays the part of Jesus lost 45 pounds, he was struck by lightning, he was accidentally struck twice during the scourging scene leaving a deep 14-inch scar, he dislocated his shoulder when the cross was dropped into the hole with him on the cross. He then suffered pneumonia and hypothermia from being nearly naked with only a loin cloth on the cross for endless hours. The crucifixion scene alone took 5 weeks of the 2 months of shooting. His body was so stressed and exhausted from playing the role that he had to undergo two open heart surgeries after the filming production. Jim explained, “I didn’t want people to see me. I just want them to see Jesus. Conversions will happen through that.” Almost like a clairvoyant prediction many amazing things happened. Pedro Sarubbi, who played Barabbas, felt that it was not Caviezel who was looking at him, but Jesus Christ himself, as he played that role he said of Caviezel, “His eyes had no hatred or resentment towards me, only mercy and love." Luca Lionello, the artist who played Judas, was an avowed atheist before shooting began. He eventually converted, and baptized his children. One of the main technicians working on the film was a Muslim converted to Christianity. Some producers said they saw actors dressed in white they didn’t recognize during one of the filming sessions, and when they reviewed the recordings they realized they couldn’t see them in that footage. The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing US religious as well as the highest R-rated film of all time, with $370.8 million! Worldwide, it grossed $611 million. More importantly, it has reached 100’s of millions of people around the world. Mel Gibson paid $30 million out of his own pocket for the production of the film because no studio would take on the project. Today Jim Caviezel simply and boldly proclaims his faith in Christ, and the miracle it was for him to represent Christ as an actor and a greater believer of Christ because of this experience.

@TammiMinoski @TheHistoryList Very cool! HAPPY BIRTHDAY from St. Louis!

Okay, so I purchased a 1/9 replica of the Liberty Bell from @TheHistoryList. Made for the Bicentennial in 1976 by the foundry that made the original Liberty Bell. This photograph doesn’t even remotely capture the beauty of this piece. This bell is gorgeous! Happy Birthday to me!

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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I wouldn't normally repost profanity, but I've watched this video with @MrsRigdon way too many times to count now! I look at a different person every time! Simply priceless reactions!

Drunken elephants really do exist, and their chaotic behavior is hilarious. Thanks to fermented marula fruit (which has an alcohol content similar to that of beer), these gentle giants end up getting drunk.

📍St. Louis, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸

St. Louis, Missouri

@adamhousley We used to get the signal of KMOX fm STL at night while we were in port (Jacksonville, FL) serving on the USS Saratoga CV60. The guys from STL would grab lawn chairs and sit on the flight deck and listen. No beers though, just Jack Buck & Mike Shannon’s voices across the deck 🙂

Completely agree. As @SFGiants fans, we've got some of the best and have. @SFnewsnow

@adamhousley You’re not wrong

The NCAA is a disaster

Skip Schumaker told Rule 5 pick Carter Baumler that he made the Rangers Opening Day roster during a mound visit 🥹

Today is World Bear Day.

In 2016, some young people saved a dog that had fallen into a reservoir by forming a human chain. Ten years later, the mayor erected a statue in their honor. Their collective souls and humanity definitely left their mark on this place. 🙏❤️

JJ Wetherholt will start the season in St. Louis after just 138 career MiLB games! 👏

I wish more were excited for #America250! For the US Bicentennial, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in England was commissioned to make reproduction Liberty Bells. This is the same foundry that made our nation's #LibertyBell. I just purchased a Whitechapel Liberty Bell replica 1976.

We are heartbroken and join the State of Hockey in mourning the tragic loss of Jessi and her children. May they rest in peace 💔.

Demolition is well underway on the old Millennium Hotel in downtown St. Louis! 🏗️

If this doesn’t make you smile, nothing will? What a call!!!

official statement from the st. louis battlehawks 33% off home opener tickets 👀 🎟️: bit.ly/4rsPpgL