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heng44
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posted 07-21-2007 03:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

An intrepid photographer can be seen on the lakebed at Edwards AFB as Challenger returns from the STS-7 mission in June 1983.

Ed Hengeveld

gliderpilotuk
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posted 07-21-2007 03:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for gliderpilotuk   Click Here to Email gliderpilotuk     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Health and Safety" Regs wouldn't allow that these days! He's not even wearing a helmet!

Paul

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posted 07-21-2007 07:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for East-Frisian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That looks really great. Dangerous, of course, but I would also guess, windy and loud. That would not have been a job for me.

The East-Frisian

medaris
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posted 07-21-2007 07:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for medaris   Click Here to Email medaris     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Would a helmet do you much good if a Space Shuttle landed on you? Good photo, 'though!

mdmyer
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posted 07-21-2007 08:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mdmyer   Click Here to Email mdmyer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am sure the OSHA inspector would have said that the helmet would have made all of the difference, it would have saved the guy's life.

Mike

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posted 07-21-2007 09:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lunar rock nut   Click Here to Email Lunar rock nut     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by mdmyer:
I am sure the OSHA inspector would have said that the helmet would have made all of the difference, it would have saved the guy's life.
And do not forget the required steel toe shoes plus safety glasses! Great shot.

Terry

mjanovec
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posted 07-21-2007 01:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mjanovec   Click Here to Email mjanovec     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I suspect the photographer is not quite as close to the shuttle as he appears in this photo. If this photo was taken at some distance, the telephoto lens will compress the apparent distances, leading to the illusion that this man is pretty darn close to the landing shuttle. (Note that a similar effect is seen with the launch photo of Apollo 7 that makes it appear it is flying right over the VAB).

Having said that, it is clear this photographer is much closer than the person who took this photo!

art540
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posted 07-21-2007 02:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for art540   Click Here to Email art540     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Perhaps a mild telephoto as the depth of fiield is quite deep from the foreground to the mountains. It is too early in the day for the heat waves to make their appearance. A longer telephoto image is possible if the photographer applies the hyperfocal focusing method. I have an image of a Russian photoographer seemingly only several hundred feet away from an ascending Soyuz launch.

Cliff Lentz
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posted 07-22-2007 08:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cliff Lentz   Click Here to Email Cliff Lentz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It reminds me of the days before telephoto lenses, not that I was there! Newspaper photographers would actualy stand on the field of professional baseball games for those amazing shots we now see in the history books and none of them wore helmets.

ejectr
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posted 07-22-2007 01:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ejectr   Click Here to Email ejectr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Heh....baseball game! You should have seen what they did in Vietnam to get some of their pictures!

Cliff Lentz
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posted 07-22-2007 05:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cliff Lentz   Click Here to Email Cliff Lentz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ejectr,

I have to give you that one! I'm sure they wore helmets, but I'm sure that won't matter all that much.

Cliff

joe bruce
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posted 07-22-2007 06:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for joe bruce   Click Here to Email joe bruce     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What an opportunity to stand where that fellow was and to see and hear the shuttle land, hard hat or not hard hat.

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