Pete Tillman
Trinity Test Fireball, NM, 0.016 second after explosion, July 16, 1945.
The viewed hemisphere's highest point in this image is about 200 meters high. If you look closely (full size), those are pine trees outlined against the advancing dust cloud, not long for this world.
This is my one-and-only Featured Picture at Wikipedia, from 2008. From my nomination:
An icon of the Atomic Age. The New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe has a print of this photo on permanent display, and I've spent a long time studying it there (and here). The WW I German helmet shape; the One-Eye Monster; Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.... An amazing photograph, taken under extraordinary conditions. Berlyn Brixner was the photographer, and some details are on his page. Blown up from a single 16-mm movie frame.
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Trinity Test Fireball, NM, 0.016 second after explosion, July 16, 1945.
The viewed hemisphere's highest point in this image is about 200 meters high. If you look closely (full size), those are pine trees outlined against the advancing dust cloud, not long for this world.
This is my one-and-only Featured Picture at Wikipedia, from 2008. From my nomination:
An icon of the Atomic Age. The New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe has a print of this photo on permanent display, and I've spent a long time studying it there (and here). The WW I German helmet shape; the One-Eye Monster; Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.... An amazing photograph, taken under extraordinary conditions. Berlyn Brixner was the photographer, and some details are on his page. Blown up from a single 16-mm movie frame.
More details:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidat...