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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: Peter McLennan on April 19, 2012, 06:44:20 pm
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This article (and others) demonstrates why, IMHO, Luminous Landscape is the best photography site on the Internet.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I agree. This is a terrific article.
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Mind-blowingly fantastic! Or should I say - out of this world!
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Great article - lots of fun!
This ought to be hard to beat for a location report!
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Great article. WOW :o
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It didn't take much convincing to get my friend, Alan, to write the article for LL. We have spoken about it quite a bit over the last couple of years, but never got around to getting the article done.
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Wonderful article ... thx.
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Thanks, Andy, for encouraging him to write the article!
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Yes, we are in your debt Andy. A marvellous account of "extreme photography"
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Fantastic article.
Much more interesting than discussing photographic equipment :)
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Just in case it isn't clear to anyone reading this - I just wanted add and repeat what everyone else have said.
Just Amazing and yes, out of this world. Thanks forsharing this with us
Henrik
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Maybe Michael can organize a trip up there in addition to Antarctica:)
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This article (and others) demonstrates why, IMHO, Luminous Landscape is the best photography site on the Internet.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
+1 as they say. I was surprised to see this article. The images are wonderfully atmospheric, especially considering there was not much atmosphere around. ;D
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Wow -- awesome article!! really cool this is on luminious landscape :-)
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One of the absolute finest articles ever presented on LL!!! I'm going to spend more time carefully reading and looking at this article! Thanks!!! Eleanor
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Andy and Michael,
Thank you! These photographs by Captain Poindexter are just magnificent. And of course very timely as well. I was at the Udder-Hazy center yesterday for the ceremony transferring the Discovery to the Smithsonian. The appreciative crowd was huge, and I hoped that meant something to the astronauts who were there participating in the ceremony. I wonder if Captain Poindexter or any of his crew in any of these photos? http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n561/billh96007/Discovery/
It was exciting to see the Discovery flying on the 747, and again up close, nose to nose with the Enterprise, but it was also very sad to see the end of our manned space exploration. Hopefully that will change in the future.
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What a great article! I especially like the shot of the Milky Way over India. Thanks Alan -- and Andy for asking him to write this.
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I especially like the shot of the Milky Way over India.
That one is truly incredible. "Let's see... I'll keep the entire universe absolutely still while ripping around the planet at thousands of kilometers per hour...."
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It didn't take much convincing to get my friend, Alan, to write the article for LL.
Glad you did Andy...
It was really interesting to see not only the great space shots but also the candids that NASA prolly wouldn't make a big deal of. It's actually a bit of a melancholy time for NASA and the people who gave so much to the Space Shuttle over the years. I saw a 60-Minutes segment about what's happened to the areas in Florida near the space center...really sad to see. But it was also interesting to see the shuttle put on a 747 plane to fly to Washington. Ironically, I saw a Jeopardy episode there Final Jeopardy question was: what has been the most visited museum for 2010/2011? Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (http://www.nasm.si.edu/). I hope NASA still has some legs in the future...
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Me too...
Erik
I hope NASA still has some legs in the future...
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Before Dex left NASA, he invited Leslie and I to go behind the scenes and check out some really cool things that most people never see. I was able to spend time in the shuttle simulator, which blew my mind. Here are some photos from my experience:
http://www.theglobalphotographer.com/the-global-photographer/2011/2/10/nasa-a-behind-the-scenes-tour.html
Andy
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http://s1140.photobucket.com/albums/n561/billh96007/Discovery/?action=view¤t=Discovery-Astronauts4-19-12-1556.jpg&mediafilter=noflash#!oZZ11QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1140.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fn561%2Fbillh96007%2FDiscovery%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DDiscovery-Astronauts4-19-12-1559.jpg
Bill, Alan is the tall guy in the middle.
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Andy,
Thanks for the excellent supplements to Alan's piece.
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The image I found most haunting was taken of Israel, Syria, the Sinai...it looked so beautiful and peaceful from afar but knowing of all the pain, hatred and bloodshed in those regions throughout history gave me chills. Powerful. Eleanor
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The images are wonderfully atmospheric, especially considering there was not much atmosphere around. ;D
Tee hee.
Great article.
Jeremy
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I hope NASA still has some legs in the future...
Amen
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This article blows my mind.
I have always been fascinated by space and space travel (hard core Star Trek fan). However I never thought about photographing in space until I read this article. Now I want to go up there more than ever and bring my camera!
These photos are just amazing. They are really inspiring. I have to say, they make me think, "are my images really that compelling? Is there a unique subject matter or environment I haven't captured that I would like to?"
Now someone needs to hurry up and invent warp drive so we can photograph in other solar systems!
Once again, blows my mind.
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Yesterday we lost our good friend Captain Alan Poindexter in a tragic jet ski accident. My thoughts are with Lisa and their two sons. More information can be found here:
http://www.space.com/16386-astronaut-alan-poindexter-dies-jet-ski-accident.html
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Heavens. Sitting here across the other side of the world in New Zealand I saw the the headline in our local paper and didn't make the connection.
Condolences to his family and friends and his sons are in our prayers.