One of my favorites from L2 for the beautiful model, lighting, pose, portrait, capture, people, female, human, expression. And L2 has answered some questions for me before, thank you for your help L2.
Sure beats photos of Cars and Bikes! Engineering standards of humanity? Maybe, maybe not, but this is a rare shot you can only get large files of on NASA.com.
3 miles is the closest you can get to this baby and Alan did a good job here.
mk... I looked at your stuff last week and I missed this one. This is a really nice, a pure, unaffected shot and we don't see many of those. With so many images, photographers tend to leave their finger prints all over the place (in terms of PP or whatever, myself included) this image speaks for itself.
I feel an Ursula Phase II, stirring in my bones. No gimmicks. No Glycerine. The real thing. Don't think I can negotiate the precipice at the moment...too busy. Maybe when I get back from vacation. I'll need the rest and a right frame of mind.
alanfreed
dsidwell-This shot makes me want to burst into the nearest Church and start begging for forgiveness.
Thanks, Anthony! I must say I still get goosebumps when watching the launches, like the one on Friday (especially since it was Atlantis).
On the press tour the day prior to the launch, we were allowed to walk literally within a couple hundred feet of the launch platform. That was pre-9/11, so I'm curious as to what they allow photographers to do nowadays. It was an incredible experience!
This is the vantage point where I was able to take that shot:
Originally posted by RulerZigzag:
Sure beats photos of Cars and Bikes! Engineering standards of humanity? Maybe, maybe not, but this is a rare shot you can only get large files of on NASA.com.
3 miles is the closest you can get to this baby and Alan did a good job here.
I must geto down to florida before they retire these shuttles in 2010. It would be great to capture the ISS and Atlantis docking with my telescope today, I'll try to get the coordinates.
Alan do you know why the Russian Soyuz craft launches without all this smoke? We use the same propellant.
I'd also like to give a shout out to former SC... with sincere thanks to Kiwiness, Heida, EddyG, Gordon, timj351, jmsetzler, blemt, Magnetic9999, KarenB and any other early volunteers who helped make DPC what it is today! :-)
Thanks Shannon! A big hats off to you guys who are taking this further and staying with this site. Respect for sticking to an unthankful job!
I always thought those people with funny avatars were the complaint department. Speaking of complaining I think this thread should be locked. It is discriminatory against those of us who add nothing to the site and still never get any recognition.
Appreciating Frisca...
...a peacekeeper who looks for the beauty in everything,
focuses on the important things,
lets the rest fade into shades of bokeh,
sees the unity in nature
and the nature in humans...
For a while, I was just going to post one or two "thank yous" a day in appreciation to the Site Council. But hey, maybe more is better - so, many thanks gang, for all you do!
mk adjudicator extroadinaire.. manic who proves you can do anything with a S40... ClubJuggle who does nice things for the site and for charity sher...thanks,Sher for everything you do... Konador who was once just a bright kid in Iceland-I-mean-England (well, he could be Icelandic, he's that good!)... alanfreed the well known wildlife photographer
Ursula who is everywhere, especially when you need her [thumb]150113[/thumb]
frisca Just like Ursula, nice lady scalvertanother one of those reliable folk
And finally, I started with a SC member I've met (Kirbic) so I'll end with another Site Council member I've met - and if the rest are as good as GeneralE, and I think they are, this is one terrific group of people. The title of this one is "Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed"
