Posted in Aerial Photography on Mar 5th, 2010 6 Comments »
NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night
Jason Hawkes shows images of New York City and Las Vegas at night shot with a Nikon D3S from a helicopter. Fantastic.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Martian Landscapes
An absolutely incredible collection of images from Mars. I thought the first shot was a woman’s skin with tattoos (okay, I’m drinking a beer).
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Photojournalism, Slide Show on Oct 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it.
The [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers on Sep 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Aerial Photography of Jason Hawkes
A nice collection of image shot from above.
[via Jon Moss]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Landscape, Places on Aug 7th, 2009 No Comments »
The Frame has a great set on The 31st Britol International Balloon Fiesta.
Some of the best ballooning shots I’ve seen in a long time.
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Photojournalism on Jul 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
The Frame: Endeavour’s visit to the space station
Wonderful collection of images, some from the space shuttle Endeavor, some from the STS-127 space station.
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, People, Photography on Jul 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Photo Journal: Apollo’s Historic Lunar Landing
This is an unusual and excellent collection of images of the entire event, including a candid of the now late Walter Cronkite.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Recent scenes from the ISS.
An incredible collection of aerial images of earth from the International Space Station. My fav is #24, the tidal channels near Iran’s Qeshm Island. Wow.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Jun 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Airship Ventures
This is the way to do aerial photography in the Bay Area. If it were just a tad cheaper…
[via Longboard]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photography, Places on Jun 8th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Mercury and MESSENGER
An incredible photo essay on the MESSENGER probe and Mercury. The surface shots of the planet are incredible, like you’re there.
Posted in Aerial Photography, People, Places, Travel on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture is back from vacation with a great set on Hubble’s final servicing mission.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places, Social Software on May 17th, 2009 No Comments »
View Larger Map
I was just listening to an NPR Marketplace piece on retiring in Sun City. I wasn’t quite sure where it was so looked it up with google maps. Wow. Not sure I’m going to retire here. Nice patterns though but do they work for human beings? I’m not sure.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Places, Social Software on Apr 29th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture has a fantastic set of images from photographer Jason Hawkes: Human landscapes from above.
Note and click on the “google maps” links on the bottom of many of the images. Wonderful to be able to see where they were taken and browse around those areas.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Tools on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Scenes from 30,000 meters above
On February 28th, a team of four Spanish teenage students and their instructor from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia launched a weather probe they designed and built themselves. Their helium-filled balloon carried a payload of electronics and a camera to take atmospheric measurements and photographs throughout the trip. After getting [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Creativity, Ideas, Photographers on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Students tie £56 camera to balloon; send it to edge of space
Wow, a point and shoot camera in space. Fantastic.
[via Digg]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Landscape, Photographers on Feb 1st, 2009 3 Comments »
Alexander Heilner’s Aerial Landscapes.
Check out his other sets: Landscapes by Day, Landscapes by night, Microbes, and more. Excellent photographic work.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Jan 29th, 2009 11 Comments »
The Big Picture has a great new collection: More of London from above, at night with photographs by Jason Hawkes.
I love this stuff, can’t get enough of it. Incredibly well done and makes me want to get to London pronto.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Photojournalism, Politics on Jan 21st, 2009 3 Comments »
As expected, The Big Picture has the best set of images of The Inauguration of President Barack Obama
Wonderful collection and these pictures really do capture the spirit of the day.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Events on Jan 21st, 2009 3 Comments »
The inauguration from above
This is the best version of this shot. Scrolls more easily then others.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Sites on Jan 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Big Picture has a great set of aerials: Earth, observed.
Amazing. #22, Las Vegas is killer but so are all the rest of them. Alan Taylor is a terrific photo editor.
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