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Today is a pink or purple day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Smile on Saturday is mini figures. This is the perfect theme since Mr. Egg just made it into the aspiring astronaut team ! He is very proud and can’t stop smiling while wearing his astronaut helmet and standing in a row with other future astronauts. Of course, the training to become an actual astronaut is long and very difficult… And Mr. Egg will have to train very hard and maybe even lose some weight before going to space (but this is secondary since we all know that weight don't matter in a zero gravity situation)… However, right now, all Mr. Egg can think about is how happy he is, standing among all those mini figures. I hope this « first day » at astronaut school picture will make you smile !
Those mini Lego figures are from my husband’s collection. Now, my sons play with them… and sometimes I do too, especially if it is for a Flickr challenge.
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Astronauts call the suit they wear during the launch and the return to Earth the 'pumpkin suit' because it's bright orange. This suit protects the astronauts during launch and landing in emergencies.
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Astronauten noemen het pak dat ze dragen tijdens de lancering en de terugkeer naar de aarde het 'pompoenpak'. omdat het feloranje is. Dit pak beschermt de astronauten tijdens de lanceren en de landing in noodgevallen.
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Lily was baffled. And she was a little annoyed because one of these strange tiny persons kept stomping around on her (empty!) tummy, not to mention the red cord that tied her to the wooden stretcher they had used to carry her to that beach. "Big Sands" it was called, she had picked up from the conversation the guy in yellow had barked into his walkie-talkie. What was she doing here, anyway? When Lily had decided to follow her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Lemuel's footsteps and set off to explore the universe she had expected to find her own adventures and not relive his. This wasn't even Lilliput but a strange Central Peuroean shore with a sea that didn't even have a tide. Something with Blatic. Or was it Batlic Sea? She couldn't remember. It was hot, she was hungry, and her shades were out of reach. She had to get out of there. ASAP. So she turned her head to one of the guys who all looked like construction workers and said: "I come in peace. Take me to your leader!"
"Have you ever seen someone so huge, John? I thought giants were myths." "Well, here she is, and she is a giant. A very pretty giant, I should add. So much for that myth", John said. James, wrapped up in thought, finally joined their conversation: "Do you guys think she's one of the Engineers who made us? One of the Preisers?" "Oh, come on, James, you watch too many movies!" Jim said. "Let's continue with our job and tie her up properly so she can't trample our sand castle before we win the sand sculpture competition. I know we'll win this year." "That's what you say every year", James said. At this moment, Lily turned her head and said: ...
This fun theme allowed me to not only use one of my Playmobil astronaut figurines (it's perfectly normal to have Playmobil figurines as a grown-up, isn't it?) I stumbled upon at a toy store while looking for something for an MM theme (I can't remember which) but also to bring back John, Jim, and James (please see my album if you like). Since John, Jim, and James are adventures of sorts, too, something tells me that this story will have a happy ending. After J, J, and J won the sand sculpture competition, of course ;)
The photography part was very straightforward and fast this time. The fiddly part was the setup, especially tying Lily to the wooden cutting board. At first, I tried to use pins to fixate the thread but the wood was too hard (or the pins too long and soft ̵– or both). So I fetched the thumbtacks, and that worked. But the tiny Preiser figures kept falling as it was difficult to place them on the cutting board because modeling clay didn't stick to the wood very well.
Sizewise the frame is almost maxed out. A regular Playmobil figure is exactly 7,5 cm/2.95 inches tall, and I arranged the scene so that not the entire Playmobil figure is visible in the frame. It's a single photo, processed in DXO, LR, PS (my signature), and Analog Efex (the frame).
HMM, Everyone!
P.S. I'm busy today and hope to catch up with you tonight!
He should be careful pretending to be an astronaut; a drop of 1mm and a twist clockwise and he would have been a smoothie.
From a private collection of vintage pinball and flipper game backglass. Lit by two Einstein 640s in the standard 45° configuration for capturing flat artwork.
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque
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This photo was taken in the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany. It shows an astronaut. Olympus OMD EM 10 was used with an Olympus M. 9-18 wide-angle lens.
Houston we have a problem...
Elsa managed to find an astronaut outfit, but she has too much brains for this little helmet, also the space ship she could get is not big enough. Sorry alien friends, another time it will be...
Blythe a Day. May 2025 Day 06
Female Astronaut
Created with Midjourney AI engine. PP work in Luminar Neo AI Sparkles and Glow filters.
Prompt: wide angle establishing shot of a female astronaut outside of the International Space Station. The Station is in orbit of an alien planet. The astronauts suit is black and gold. There is a burning galactic thunderstrom raining on the Station. calm, serene, peaceful --ar 16:9 --v 6.0 --s 750 --style raw
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A real astronauts suit (waterproof and machine washable!). This one used to belong to a good friend of mine. NOTETOSELF: I need a new nametag.
When astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti received her first assignment — to spend a record 200 days aboard the International Space Station — she knew she wanted to document the opportunity of a lifetime through photography. The resulting images are breathtaking.
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Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, at the age of 87 from complications of pneumonia. Young began his impressive career at NASA in 1962, when he was selected from among hundreds of young pilots to join NASA's second astronaut class, known as the "New Nine." Young is the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times.
In this image, John Young, astronaut and Navy veteran, salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, jumps up from the lunar surface as astronaut and Air Force veteran, Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture.
Image credit: NASA
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“At one point on Agena, near the docking cone and extended antenna, Scott will open a small, spring-loaded door to expose a micro-meteorite impact plate. On a subsequent Gemini mission—probably Gemini 9—it is tentatively planned to approach the dead Gemini 8 target craft, and another space-walking astronaut will retrieve the plate for earth study of meteorite impacts during the interim between flights."
By Russell Arasmith. Masterful. Striking: