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 [...]
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.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Sites, Stories on Dec 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture has a wonderful photo essay on a complete cycle of the space shuttle Endeavor: Round trip with Endeavour.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Places on Nov 25th, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture: The International Space Station turns 10. I can’t get enough of shots like these. We’ve come so far in some areas and are so behind in others. International cooperation on projects like this give me hope.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers on Oct 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
Earth From Above comes to NYC Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States – to New York City for the first time in 2009. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 – [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
STS-116 Shuttle Mission Imagery Check the Hi Res version. Backdropped by New Zealand and Cook Strait in the Pacific Ocean, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction continues on [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Sites, Places on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
the Big Picture: London from above, at night. Wow, fantastic low aerial photography. A bit noisy* in places but so what, it works. *I’m overly sensitized to this by the current discussion of the Canon 5D and its upcoming replacement and Canon and Nikon’s war for high ISO, low noise sensors.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Aug 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
irrigation porn Images of center pivot irrigation. Very different from my aerials of similar fields. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Landscape on Jul 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Big Picture: Recent Volcanic Activity. The images from space are incredible. If I could go up there without throwing up or becoming claustrophobic these are the views I’d love to have. Absolutely amazing.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Sites, Places on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture strikes gold again with Man on the Moon, Future and Past. As someone who watched all of the Apollo moon landings on television and watched Apollo 13, the movie more times than I care to admit, I guess you could call me interested. These images are fantastic.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Jun 20th, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture does it again with Martian Skies Wow, Mars like you’ve never seen it before. Clouds, dust devils… the Phoenix Lander decending in front of an enormous crater. Dang, I am awed by these photographs.
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