Compare the above image with this one, in which no strobe was used.
The following were shot using a strobe either on or off the camera, but certainly with the settings at something other than my onboard camera's full blast white-out.
Interesting lighting, too bad about the thumb (thanks Mari!)
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
—Carl Sagan