Phil missed his true calling

So the space shuttle launched today, and my buddy Phil Sandlin was there to take some pictures. (See the post below.) He took some pretty good ones, like this one:



and this one:



But I think that, secretly, Phil really was hoping that the launch would be delayed a bit longer, just so he could file pictures like this one:

A dragonfly sits on a weed near the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, July 14. NASA officials are trying to determine when they attempt a launch of the STS-114 mission. The launch was scrubbed on Wednesday after a fuel gauge read full when it should have read empty.

AP Photo/Phil Sandlin

Yes, I think Phil is just waiting for the call from National Geographic.