Last night, I took the last daily photo for 2008. The project was harder than I thought it would be, but very rewarding. Here’s a slideshow of 2008:
Category: Photography
Time Looks Back on Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the first manned space mission to leave Earth’s gravitational pull and enter that of another body- the moon. It was the the first manned mission to use the still impressive Saturn V rocket, and was the first time humans saw the dark side of the moon. Circling the moon 10 times, the mission hosted several television specials from space and took the first photo of the whole Earth from space. Time named the three men aboard (Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders) “Men of the Year” in 1968.
On a Dying City
Time magazine has published a photo essay of truly heartbreaking photographs taken around Detroit, which has been plagued by urban decay as the American automobile industry has shrunk over the yeas..
The Michigan Theatre Built in 1926, this glorious building functioned as a performance space until 1976, when it was converted into a parking garage.
If the Big 3 fail, only God knows what the city would look like in another 20 years.
Photos of the International Space Station
Way back when, the Space Age was essentially a series of sprints in a feverish competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The first satellite in orbit. The first man in space. The first landing on the moon. But starting more than a decade ago, the space race gave way to cooperation between the onetime Cold War foes, along with partners from other nations, in what has become an endurance event: the construction, maintenance, occupation, and operation of the International Space Station.
iBook Insides
I took apart an iBook G4 today. I do that most days, but today I documented it:
Color Classic Goodness
I took some pictures of my Color Classic today:
Project 365 Update
Today is day 321 of my Project 365. As the year winds down, it is becoming harder to find photographs that capture the day. But today was not one of those days. I had to go to campus and take some photos for class and came back with one I am very happy with:
