The amazing and cool photo thread

[GregTheStig]

The Endeavour cockpit photo is awesome, especially when you consider the fact that that thing is older than many cars on the road today (at least in Atlanta).


Another awesome shot: "24 hours worth of day and night snaps merged into one panoramic frame."

 

[Solo]

Those panoramic aerial shots look amazing 👍

(Heikki Kovalainen congratulates Kimi Raikkonen)

 

[Dennisch]

Let me be the one to spoil that picture. Language in the bottom right corner!

 

[Ross]

Basically all of mattythedog's Iceland thread

 

[Solo]

Let me be the one to spoil that picture. Language in the bottom right corner!

Can't believe I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out Dennisch, removed it now.

 

[SPhilli911]

The Endeavour cockpit photo is awesome, especially when you consider the fact that that thing is older than many cars on the road today (at least in Atlanta).


Another awesome shot: "24 hours worth of day and night snaps merged into one panoramic frame."

No matter how disconnected from the actual programs, I am proud to work for the company that made both the engines on the Discovery, and the engines on that 747 it's riding on.

Also that picture is amazing. I've always wanted to try that sort of picture.

 

[Schwartz]

No matter how disconnected from the actual programs, I am proud to work for the company that made both the engines on the Discovery, and the engines on that 747 it's riding on.

Rolls Royce?

Edit: Oh wait, Rolls Royce didn't make the engines for the 747. Besides, I would assume the 747 used to carry the space shuttle would probably use more powerful engines.

 

[Dennisch]

General Electrics? Pratt & Whitney did the engines.

By the way, this is the shuttle mounting point on the 747 Shuttle Carrier.

 

[Blitz187]

^

Black side down! Not the white side!!

 

[axletramp]

It is 'Merica, so perhaps not a joke afterall.

 

[Jay]

Rolls Royce?

Edit: Oh wait, Rolls Royce didn't make the engines for the 747. Besides, I would assume the 747 used to carry the space shuttle would probably use more powerful engines.

They did but only 747-400 had RR RB211 engine options, the old 747-100 has P&W JT9D's (as mentioned).

 

[Akira GT]

Pretty.

 

[terminator363]

It is 'Merica, so perhaps not a joke afterall.

Yep.

 

[SPhilli911]

Rolls Royce?

Edit: Oh wait, Rolls Royce didn't make the engines for the 747. Besides, I would assume the 747 used to carry the space shuttle would probably use more powerful engines.

Pratt and Whitney. It's based here in Connecticut, although the actual 747 engine program I have nothing to do with. As for the shuttle engines, that's handled by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne in California.

Check this link out. I could post all day about NASA pictures....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/

 

[RocZX]

Edit:

 

[Carlos]

God's diabolo!

 

[GregTheStig]

Just... wow

 

[Ibonibo]

 

[Madertus]

Russia is not a country, it's a state of mind.

 

[Peterram430]

The aurora over the Giant's Causeway last night. It's rare for the lights to come this far south.

 

[Moglet]

 

[Simple Matt]

@ moglet. Something about that photo is amazing! I don't know what, but it has a way stronger meaning to me

 

[Keef]

Protesting against an Abercrombie & Fitch store on Savile Row, like sirs.

 

[Brett]

A few pictures from twenty-two years of the Hubble telescope:

Link

Hubble's launch aboard Discovery:

 

[Dennisch]

That is so cool. So cool. 👍

 

[Neal]

Meteor Over Crater Lake

After breaking my back on a motorbike covering the 2010 Cape Epic, I have a bit of leverage with the organisers. So much so that they willingly provide a helicopter for all eight days of racing, for me to play the photographic version of Apocalypse Now. Minutes prior to this I had been shooting above the singletrack in the trees, struggling to get a definitive shot of singletrack & riders due to the dense foliage. Then I remembered we were coming up on some open trails - knowledge I had from riding at Oak Valley a while back. So we waited for about two minutes in the air above the track for Christoph Sauser and Burry Stander to come into shot. The shot with just the two of them on the singletrack was good - but when the TV helicopter came into the bottom of the frame I knew it was just going to get better. Hanging out of the helicopter - there are no doors for better shooting – and looking through the viewfinder trying to direct the pilot - up, down, backwards forwards, left right, nose back, spin round etc. - gets a bit tricky compared to just shuffling your GoreTex boots in the mud of a World Cup ... but I think you’ll agree the end result is worth it. Photo by Gary Perkin.

 

[ParkourVeyron]

Synchronizing...
*Leaps forward*
*Eagle call is heard*

For those who don't get it...

 

[Alex p.]

Russia is not a country, it's a state of mind.

Damned right! Russians are definatly some tough badasses!

 

[Solo]

Synchronizing...
*Leaps forward*
*Eagle call is heard*

For those who don't get it...

Thought you were going for the Lord Of The Rings reference there with Gandalf and the giant Eagles.
Just looking at that picture makes me a bit queasy, not good with heights at all!

 

[Neal]

Morning, Moon, and Mercury

Sequoia Tree, Yosemite National Park