Via Ian O’Neill and Richard Drumm I have one more set of shots of the explosive plume from the Russian volcano Saraychev Peak… but oh, is this so worth it. It’s an animation made up of single images taken by astronauts aboard the ISS.
Whoa. You really get a sense of how the plume is changing minute by minute, and the view of the lahars (mud and pyrioclastic flows) is truly fantastic. A good way to see this is to let the video load, then use the controller to scroll back and forth in time along the footage.
As I look at it, I realize just how amazing this sequence is… the ISS is always up there, so it’s bound to see just about any explosive volcanic event on Earth. But it just so happens that it flew very close to being directly over this one, so we’re looking straight ...
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A look back over the last 12 months
If you look at any of the “best” photogs out there – whether they work for USA Today, Sports Illustrated , Reuters, or The New York Times , you’ll find that no matter how “famous” they are: what makes them the best is that they work harder than you do to this day. Period. There is really no special ingredient out there that I know of. They’re at work (either mentally or physically – or both) whe...
As 2009 comes to a close, the Lens of Truth stops and takes a look back at the games that got us through the year. Those of you who've been there from the beginning can vouch for our growth. Some things we did well, sometimes our voice cracked from "website puberty", but rest assured, we came out with more hair on our chest.
Every week I look at roughly 15,000 sports pictures to produce this blog. They come in from all over the world, from events large and small, from countries with famous sporting reputations, and from countries that I might struggle to find on a map. My calculator tells me that's over three quarters of a million sports pictures annually. Have I really looked at that many pictures this year? My c...