Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission.
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This was just too juicy not to share.
While doing set photography on a buddy’s shoot, I found an angle I liked and just started banging away. The actor would stand in that position between takes, but was hardly still. I must’ve taken 30 tries at this shot, but this was one of the first ones I got. Luck is as much a part of photography as anything else.
As a kid, my father once mentioned something called a “reverend fold.” Without asking I knew immediately what he meant.
Hours of fun can be had ranking, discussing, then re-ranking modern British crime films. Pictured in no particular order: Snatch, Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, The Bank Job. Not pictured, but part of any discussion on the topic: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and RocknRolla. Have I missed any titles?
RR 2009 desktop background available here. 36 birds straight to the dome.
When people ask me what it was like in the press section, I tell them it was cold. But if cold can be glorious, it was that too.