closeUP: Supermoon

May 12th, 2012 by Allison Gibson Posted in Reader Photos

Supermoon
© Makbet666

closeUP: ATREX Rocket Launch

March 29th, 2012 by Allison Gibson Posted in Reader Photos

ATREX Rocket Launch Chemical Tracers from Wallops Flight Facility
© Jeff Berkes Photography

Martian View of 9/11

September 12th, 2011 by Debbi K. Swanson Patrick Posted in Blog, Politics in Photography

Mars Rover arm made from steel in Twin Towers

This tribute certainly gets the long distance award. A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

The memorial, made from aluminum recovered from the site of the twin towers in weeks following the attacks, serves as a cable guard on a tool on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and bears an image of the American flag.

The view combining exposures from two cameras on the rover is online at: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14750 .

The memorial is on the rover’s rock abrasion tool, which was being made in September 2001 by workers at Honeybee Robotics in lower Manhattan, less than a mile from the World Trade Center.

Opportunity’s panoramic camera and navigation camera photographed the tool on Sept. 11, 2011, during the 2,713th Martian day of the rover’s work on Mars. Opportunity completed its three-month prime mission on Mars in April 2004 and has worked for more than seven years since then in bonus extended missions.

(via NASA)

closeUP: super moon

March 27th, 2011 by Allison Gibson Posted in Blog, Reader Photos

Super Moon
© Mike Bennett.

Midweek Photo News Roundup- 10/14

October 14th, 2009 by Allison Gibson Posted in Blog, News

photo © Jim Marshall

It’s Wednesday afternoon and all that most people can think about is how many days, hours, minutes remain until the weekend. But not you, you’re a photographer! You’re never bored, but are always plotting your next photo shoot or researching the new D-SLR you’ve had your eye on. We’re right there with you, friend. To keep the wild world of photography on your mind midweek, here’s our roundup of what’s been happening in it lately.

- Rock & Roll Photographer Jim Marshall has published a new book, “Trust,” which contains some of his most famous images, including those of the great Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc.

- Nikon blew a lot of peoples’ minds with the six-digit expanded ISO setting in the brand new DS3 D-SLR.

- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is celebrating the one year anniversary of the Chris Burden installation, “Urban Light,” with a stunning online photography exhibition of shots of the Burden piece from contributors around the world.

- Wired.com recently posted a brilliant slideshow of photographs of glaciers from space.