Couple in a wheelchair embracing on a wet tarmac

By @beastxyz · May 31, 2026

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(No Caption). For this challenge, I tried to keep it clean and simple by having an astronaut son saying goodbye to his mother in front of the majestic space shuttle, under the golden hour. I tried to keep the humans smaller and the space shuttle larger to tell the story that his outer space mission is larger than kinship. I had expected the decision to keep the departure more subtle to lose votes against the ones that were heavily focused on showing it Hence the eventual outcome of ranking 51 out of 88 entries was within expectation.

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Entry in the Spaceport Departure challenge.

About this image

A tender moment at a spaceport where a couple in a wheelchair shares a hug near a towering rocket on the launch pad at sunset. The image combines aerospace engineering with emotion, featuring dramatic orange-pink skies, reflective wet ground, and illuminated scaffolding around the rocket for a cinematic, heroic mood.

Comments (2)

@DavidP · Jun 6, 2026
Appreciate how thoughtful you are, and more original/creative than most. Of course, more creative generally means less succesful in the rankings
@TTRPG_Player · Jun 7, 2026
Well done, emotional image!