One thing about ORBITER is that there are many add-ons, including some changes in the scenery. Compare the earlier shot of the launch past the Vehicle Assembly Building to this shot of a "new" version of the VAB that was created and added on by a user:
Here is an image of the docking of the delta-winged spacecraft "The Delta Glider" to Atlantis over eastern Africa. The Delta Glider is a hypothetical "single-stage to orbit" spacecraft which comes with ORBITER. It is a useful way to "get your feet wet" in the program, as it is a lot easier to fly and has a lot more capability in terms of where it can fly (you can fly it to the moon if you so desire).
This is an image of Atlantis docked with the International Space Station and using its robotic arm to remove the "Leonardo" module from the payload bay for installation on ISS:
One nice thing about ORBITER is that you can put a ground camera where you want and have it track the shuttle during ascent. Here, I have a camera with a telephoto lens (10 degree FOV) which is on the ground to the northeast of the pad watching the ascending shuttle pass the crescent moon. I hit this combination by accident while just watching the roll maneuver and suddenly noticing the moon go by in the picture.
Here is a long-lens view from orbit of Atlantis carrying HST over the central Atlantic Ocean (the eastern tip of South America is visible below the orbiter).
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