The Beauty of Night Rockets

The long exposure presents all kinds of interesting visuals, from simple Estes propellant grains showering down...

...to the errant path of an unstable rocket:

Here's another example of an unstable flight followed by the fiery forward spray of a motor closure failure under pressure:

And different propellant grains provide wonderful lighting:

And of course, all kinds of high jinks come out at night in the deep desert, like the washing machine tub full of scrap propellant:

Pyro bliss.