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Ejection Seats and Low Altitudes

By Aaron Macks on August 31, 2010 10:12 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I for one am disappointed that they removed the EXIF data from the photos

Pilot Capt. Brian Bews ejects as his a CF-18 fighter jet plummets to the ground during a practice flight at the Lethbridge County Airport on Friday, July 23 for the weekend airshow in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. "He is alive and we believe right now that his injuries are non-life-threatening," Canadian Forces Capt. Nicole Meszaros told CBC News.

It's worth seeing the rest of the pictures...

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Night Spiders

By Aaron Macks on July 29, 2010 8:39 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Last night I did some experimenting with off-camera flash and a spiderweb

And a closer shot in BW

More are available

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Lightning

By Aaron Macks on July 28, 2010 8:52 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

From Tom Warner and ZT Research comes some video of Lightning at approx 9000 frames per second. That works out to .4 second in the 90 second clip

Besides high-speed work, they also have some excellent time-lapse video.

From a different source comes the night illumination photographed by An-My Lê in "29 Palms: Night Operations III"

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In this photograph of night artillery practice in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA each line is the path of a shell in flight.

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'cause the BP spill is somewhat under control

By Aaron Macks on July 22, 2010 1:35 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

An oil pipeline in Dalian China, near the Yellow Sea, exploded and burned for about 15 hours before firefighters could get it under control.

Before it was brought under control someone managed to snap this photo of workers approaching the blaze. More pictures available from the Boston Globe's Big Picture feature. Who'd have thunk that they would figure out a way to be relevant int he 20th century.

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