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Wayne Miller, who died on May 22 at age 94 in Orinda, Calif., captured iconic images of such a wide range of subjects that it's almost hard to believe that a single person even saw all these moments, let alone photographed them.

It was visible for just five seconds or so, gliding between the buildings on L Street here in Washington, D.C., but I still managed to raise my camera and snap one last shot of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it headed toward its final home at Dulles International Airport this morning.

Warner Brothers invited me to the Smithsonian Institution ceremony last night at which Clint Eastwood was presented with the museum's James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, and I must say it was a bittersweet moment for me.