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Took a tour of the Kenndy Space station yesterday with Mark Lee as our tour Guide. Mark was a Space Shuttle Astronaut that flew on 4 space shuttle missions and participated in space walks. Meeting Mark was awesome and it was a great experience to get to ask someone who is such an expert in an area that I am interested in so many questions. We didn’t get to see much that you don’t normally see on a regular visit to the space station, but we did get to see it with Mark.
Our day ended here with the Space Shuttle Atlantis, I have seen this many times before and I am still impressed with the way that it is presented. If you have the chance I highly recommend it.
Please take a look at paradox (my first attempt at this trick).
So I finally got a around to trying it again and I'm fairly happy with the results. Hopefully there will be more to come as I have a bunch of other ideas I haven't tried yet.
(8-7-08)
This is funny. Apparently my photo was posted somewhere and then link to from reddit yesterday which is apparently why I'm getting more hits again. I'm curious how this happened. Anyway, my favorite comment so far is from rlee0001:
"That's actually the notorious, and highly feared, East Los Angeles photoshop gang. Made up of primarily Asian/Pacific immigrants, they are thought responsible for countless hate related murders and other violent crimes.
The ELAPG is also one of the nations most wealthy gangs. The gang has profited greatly from sales of Heroin and Crack Cocaine, and also from their fairly well known professional 'cleaning' services. Their wealth is one of the most significant factors preventing their capture.
Members of the ELAPG are often spotted on basketball courts with high-end photography equipment. Another dead give-away is the ELAPG dress code: black leather jackets (usually) over red sweaters, and stone washed blue jeans.
Be very careful when within camera shot of any ELAPG members. Any non-member captured by an gang camera will be added to the hit list. When new members are recruited, part of the initiation ritual is to shoot to death, at point-blank range, three randomly selected people from the hit list, and put the picture on their body.
From this picture you can see one non-member (wearing a green jacket in inner picture). You can almost see the fear in his eyes. Don't be surprised when he turns up dead, with that picture on his body."
That's hot! :)
And again:
"Do you know how many ELAPG members there are in that picture? More than thirty. Seven are on the camera crew, and the rest are all ninjas.
That's just how Asians roll."
He cracks my s*** up!
Iconic solar gas station: "Helios House" designed by Office dA in Boston and Johnston Marklee Architects in Los Angeles
I took this shot on a recent business trip to Phoenix. I had a free day and drove up to Prescott hoping to get in some hiking and take advantage of early light. Unfortunately, I was a little late...
The processing: This is a 5 image HDR. First thing I did was open the source images in Adobe Camera Raw and corrected the Chromatic Aberration. I saved the corrected images as TIFF's, then I loaded them into CS5 and applied a noise reduction filter on each of the five images, individually. Re-saved as TIFF's and ran the corrected images in Photomatix.
I loaded the tone map and 5 source images back into Photoshop to make any tweaks with the original files. I merged all layers and then started selectively masking and processing the image. I separated the processing into four groups in CS5: Global Adjustments, Sky, Rocks and Foreground. Then I masked different sections of the image so I could apply selective adjustments...Once I was satisfied with the overall, I made some final tweaks and noticed I needed to run it back through imagenomics noise ware to clean up a little noise, and that was it...I'd love to hear any feedback!
I had a crazy idea last night and decided to run with it. Here's the result. In case you're wondering I didn't superimpose the photograph into this picture. First I composed the inner photograph and actually printed it out on photopaper and held it there for the big shot. (I then later snapped a picture of the printed photograph to help sharpen some of the inside image.)
I guess my original source of inspiration would have to be ocellnuri's Task Force.
Chris, I'm dedicating this one to you.
Architects: Office dA / Johnston Marklee (2007)
Location: Beverly Hills, CA (Corner of Robertson & Olympic)
A "Green" gas station? Yup. This one uses recycled aluminum panels and solar panels on the roof which supply most of its power. The pavement is also ground glass.
STS064-114-027: Astronauts Carl J. Meade and Mark C. Lee (red stripe on suit) test the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system some 130 nautical miles from Earth. The pair were actually performing an in-space rehearsal or demonstration of a contingency rescue using the never- before flown hardware. Meade, who here wears the small back-pack unit with its complementary chest-mounted control unit, and Lee, anchored to Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robot arm, took turns using the SAFER hardware during their shared space walk of September 16, 1994.
Credit: NASA
Image Number:STS064-114-028
Date: September 16, 1994
“STS-30 --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis glides toward a landing on the Mojave Desert after spending just over four full days in space. Aboard the spacecraft were Astronauts David M. Walker, Ronald J. Crabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee. Moments later, the spacecraft’s landing gear came to a stop at 12:44:33 p.m. (PDT), 8 May 19890. It landed on Runway 22, a concrete facility, like a number of other NASA flights. Still others have landed on unpaved dry lake bed strips.”
Not a mention of the mission, the deployment of the Magellan/Venus radar mapper spacecraft - THE FIRST U.S. PLANETARY MISSION IN ELEVEN - 11 - IIIII IIIII I years! But by golly, now we know that, like a number of other orbiters, it landed on a concrete runway! The pièce de résistance: 'still others' landed on unpaved dry lake beds!!! No!?! Really?!? That being the key takeaway from this photograph. O - M - G. The bar being exceedingly low, at least it didn’t reference the pretty clouds in the bright blue sky.
This is the photograph I used in paradox v2.0 so you can see what the rest of it looks like. This is the angle I originally intended on using as the main picture, but I failed to realize that pointing towards the sun was a poor decision. So even though the overall quality of this one isn't as good, I think the composition is much better. Please let me know what you think.
To see my original attempt go here.
Night shot of the upper and lower decks. Taken from I-35 and 38th 1/2
Been wanting to take this shot for a while now. This is a five image HDR. -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, processed in Photomatix Pro and then CS5. I've been following a fellow flickr member's tutorials/advice and used some of the techniques he posted to process this. After initially processing the 5 images, I processed a single image with the best light trails using similar settings. Then masked the light trails in to get rid of the ghosting. It worked out well...I think. I think I need more practice, but overall, I'm happy with it. Oh! and my levitation skills are sick!...Check out Neil's tutorials here, if you're interested.
There are several Monk Parakeet colonies around Austin and I'm lucky enough to have one close by. No one knows for sure how they came to be in Austin. There are several urban legends about them and they've been reported to be in Austin as early as the 1970's. It was also reported that a local woman named Janet Gilles released 19 of them in the 1990's after they wore out their welcome as pets. Although they're not the flashiest as far as parrots go I still dig 'em. These are part of the Hyde Park Colony...
Single image HDR, Photmatix Pro, CS5, Aperture 3
Launch: May 4, 1989
Landing: May 8, 1989 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.
Astronauts: David M. Walker, Ronald J. Grabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
The primary payload, a Magellan/Venus radar mapper spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), was deployed six hours, 14 minutes into flight. One of five General Purpose Computers (GPC) failed and had to be replaced with a sixth on board hardware spare. This is the first time a GPC was switched on orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S89-20025
Date: February 17, 1989
Another shot from my ridiculously early drive/hike to Inks Lake. It's about an hour drive from Austin and I had to be in the area for a work meeting, so I decided to head out REALLY early in hopes of getting a shot like this. Note to all...check your EV settings before you start shooting. I forgot to reset my EV setting from an earlier shoot and the 5 exposures were actually shot at -2 EV compensation. It made for some interesting processing to salvage the shot. This would have likely been a much better image if I would have had my settings correct. Ugh!
This wide-angle shot of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Space Shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay, backdropped against Australia, was taken during the fifth extravehicular activity (EVA) added to complete servicing of the orbiting observatory. Steven L. Smith (center frame) and Mark C. Lee (on the Remote Manipulator System, or RMS, arm) conducted a survey of the hand rails on Hubble. In the foreground is the hatchway of the airlock that connects the airless payload bay to the shirt-sleeve environment of Discovery’s crew cabin.
Credit: NASA
I took this shot at Devil's Thumb Ranch in Tabernash, Colorado. The night sky was incredible. So many stars and very little light pollution. The clouds are being lit by lightning over the continental Divide.
In Kennedy Space Center's Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the STS-82 crew members familiarize themselves with some of the hardware that they plan to be handling on the second servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which took place in 1997. Looking over the Flight Support System (FSS) Berthing and Positioning System (BAPS) ring are astronauts Joseph R. Tanner (far left), Mark C. Lee (third from left), and Gregory J. Harbaugh (fourth from left), along with several HST processing team members. Tanner, Lee, and Harbaugh, along with Steven L. Smith, performed spacewalks to service HST. The telescope was deployed in 1990 and was initially serviced in 1993.
Credit: NASA
Launch: September 9, 1994
Landing: September 20, 1994, Edwards Air Force Base, CA
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Crew: Richard N. Richards, L. Blaine Hammond Jr., Jerry M. Linenger, Susan J. Helms, Carl J. Meade and Mark C. Lee
LITE instrument operated for 53 hours, yielding more than 43 hours of high-rate data. Unprecedented views were obtained of cloud structures, storm systems, dust clouds, pollutants, forest burning and surface reflectance.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts064-s-001
Date: July 1995
Gearing up with tools for the first extravehicular activity (EVA) to service the Hubble Space Telescope are astronauts Steven L. Smith (left) and Mark C. Lee. They were among four STS-82 crew members who shared several alternating two-member spacewalking sessions during the mission.
Credit: NASA
I was driving through Phoenix one evening hoping for a decent sunset shot and it didn't look like it was going to happen. Not sure if the sun would come out behind the storm cloud, I drove to Papago park to get some shots of this beautiful oasis. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, the sun set below the storm and there it was...sunset over the oasis.
This is a 5 exposure HDR. Plenty of post processing with Photomatix, Photoshop CS5, lot's of masking with Topaz Labs re-mask (note to self, rethink masking palm fronds next time), and some final touches in Aperture 3.
Launched: September 12, 1992
Landing: September 20, 1992 Kennedy Space Center, Fl.
Astronauts: Robert L. Gibson, Curtis L. Brown Jr., Mark C. Lee, N. Jan Davis, Jay Apt, Mae C. Jemison and Mamoru Mohri
Space Shuttle: Endeavor
The international crew, consisting of the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the shuttle, the first African-American woman to fly in space and the first married couple to fly on the same space mission, was divided into red and blue teams for around the clock operations. Spacelab-J included 24 materials science and 20 life sciences experiments, of which 35 were sponsored by NASDA, 7 by NASA and two collaborative efforts.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts047-s-001
Date: June 1992
In Kennedy Space Center's Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the STS-82 crew members have the opportunity for a "hands-on" preview of some of the flight hardware that they would be utilizing on the second servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Mark C. Lee (facing camera at center frame), has his gloved hand on the latch for the Multipurpose ORU Protective Enclosure (MOPE). Observing with their payload commander are Joseph R. Tanner and Gregory J. Harbaugh (second from right), as well as several HST engineers and technicians. Four astronauts performed spacewalks to service HST. The telescope was deployed in 1990 and was initially serviced in 1993.
Credit: NASA
Architects: Office dA / Johnston Marklee (2007)
Location: Beverly Hills, CA (Corner of Robertson & Olympic)
Green gas station used recycled aluminum panels and solar panels on the roof which supply most of its power. The pavement is also made of ground glass.
Performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) during STS-82, Steven L. Smith is in the foreground and Mark C. Lee is on the remote manipulator system (RMS) arm.
Credit: NASA
Mark C. Lee, STS-82 payload commander, training for extravehicular activity (EVA) involved with servicing the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), prepares to enter the Neutral Bouyancy Laboratory (NBL) water tank at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Moments later, Lee was neutrally buoyant, rehearsing some of the HST servicing tasks with a crewmate.
Credit: NASA
From Agra to Jaipur, it was a six hour drive on, what I learned from our guide was, a military highway that was built and has been maintained for troop transport along a particularly strategic stretch of India. They really take their differences with Pakistan seriously from what I gathered. I also realized that this was one of the best roads we travelled on. It was divided, which made it all the better. In fact, as a westerner, I think India could save some money by not painting lines on their roads. They really are a waste. For anyone who hasn't been to India, the lines mean nothing to the average Indian motorist. There really are no rules for driving. A concrete divider, however, that seems to do the trick...
The time is 19:50PM on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 and my good friend Mark Lee brings the fairly new 70001 through Nuneatons' platform two, heading for Lawley Street.
Architects: Office dA / Johnston Marklee (2007)
Location: Beverly Hills, CA (corner of Robertson & Olympic)
I didn't set out to do a series on gas stations this trip - it just worked out that way. Anyway, BP built this station a few years ago as a model for future, "green" gas stations. It's taken a fair amount of flack for being a "green" gas station, but it was made with recycled glass (for the pavement) and metal panels. Also, the solar panels on the roof of the station provide more than enough electricity to power the station, most days.
Alas, BP has been distracted with larger problems of late, so they rebranded this station as an ARCO and halted all further development of these "designer" gas stations.
I know this shot is so overdone, both in terms of processing and how often people take this picture, but I couldn't resist.
Mark C. Lee, STS-82 payload commander assigned to three extravehicular activities (EVAs) to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), checks his communications system prior to being submerged in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) water tank at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Moments later, Lee was neutrally buoyant, rehearsing some of the HST servicing tasks with a crewmate.
Credit: NASA
Quick shot of a corn field in the middle of the desert. Not all that interesting, but the irrigation canal with it's feeders caught my attention. And, I was trying to catch the sun rays shooting out from behind the rain cloud. Unfortunately, as I'm sure all of us have experienced, it was one of those moments you see the shot, get out, get it composed and it's not there anymore...