A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, flight 4820 en route from Washington, D.C., to Chicago Midway Airport, flies in front of the full moon over East Chicago, Ind., Tuesday, August 20, 2013. (The full burst of images shot in the camera are presented here as a sequence.)

I have a mounting debt of gratitude towards digital image capture. While I learned and shot primarily on the more romantic 35mm film format throughout my teenage years, digital photography took the steep learning curve of the photography art form and squashed it. Immediate feedback on the camera’s LCD screen with what I was doing right – and wrong – made me a much better photographer, and more quickly than waiting on film at the lab.

For all she’s given me, however, I must also fault digital photography for making me impatient and