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Please click through to the photographer's web site. He's captured some really nice images. My three favorites: - "January 7th, 2018: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
by js2 9y ago
Please click through to the photographer's web site. He's captured some really nice images. My three favorites:
- "January 7th, 2018: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches the classified Zuma payload for Northrup Grumman, and lands the first stage of the Falcon 9 back at Cape Canaveral eight minutes after launch"
- "June 11th, 2016: United Launch Alliance's massive Delta IV Heavy rocket launches a top-secret satellite, designated NROL-37, on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office"
- "November 19th, 2016: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket launches NASA and NOAA's GOES-R satellite"
There doesn't seem to be a way to link directly to the images. They are hosted on a CDN with an auth hash which I think will expire, so search for the date here:
http://johnkrausphotos.com http://johnkrausphotos.com
He's 18 BTW. At first I misread that he'd been a photographer for 18 years. Bravo.
- Analemma_ 9y agoThat long-exposure photo of the Zuma launch is incredible! I've never had an intuitive sense of what the first- and second-stage trajectories look like, but that photo nails it.
- mikeash 9y agoI’ve been following his career on the SpaceX subreddit. He’d talk about getting out of school to photograph a launch, or occasionally being unable to do so. For a while he was unable to take close-up pictures because they decided not to accredit minors. He’s quite a guy!
- andrewwharton 9y agoThere's another photographer as well (Brady Kenniston) who got some magnificent shots of the Falcon Heavy launch. This is my favourite: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradykenniston/26259934188/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradykenniston/26259934188/
- vvanders 9y agoIndeed, that's incredible work. Colors are well processed without being over saturated. The technical side is spot on while also maintaining fantastic composition.