The Mark D Phillips Collection
Face in the smoke of World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 just seconds after the second plane struck the south tower. MANDATORY CREDIT: ©2001,markdphillips.com/Mark D. Phillips NOT TO BE PRINTED OR RETRANSMITTED WITHOUT EXPRESSED WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. Contact mark (at) markdphillips.com for licensing contracts.
A Caracal snarls at Hai Bar, Israel, a 3,000-acre (12 km2) breeding and reacclimation center administered by the Israel Nature Reserves & National Parks Authority. With their sleek, streamlined body, short, reddish gold coat, and dramatic markings on the face, caracals are among the most beautiful of cats. Also called the desert lynx, Caracals are the heaviest and also the fastest of the small cats and are the largest of the small cats in Africa.
Space Shuttle Discovery on Pad 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida the night before launch with a blazing sunset. STS-29 was the 28th Space Shuttle flight and the 8th by Discovery. It took off from Launch Pad 39-B on March 13, 1989 at 9:57:00 a.m. EST. It landed at Edwards AFB on March 18, 1989 at 6:35:51 a.m. PST. The main payload carried and placed into orbit was the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.
Lilly's Bar gate and the Todd Shipyard building in Red Hook. In 1916, William H. Todd purchased the Red Hook Graving Docks, first built in 1886 to repair large ships in its dry docks. Todd Shipyard Corporation was a quintessential part of the neighborhood fabric, employing 20,000 workers at its height. A vital piece of Red Hooks’ history as a sea-faring haven was demolished over- night to become New York City’s first IKEA superstore, which some have called “a billion-dollar boondoggle.”