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Getting High Over Maui With Insane Panorama Image

by steve casimiro on March 28, 2009 · 0 comments

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For the last year or so, I’ve been experimenting with making spherical panorama images (360 degrees in all directions), which are super-hard to do well, and every once in awhile I come across one that’s so good it’s both inspiring and totally discouraging. That’s the case with this sick aerial pano of Peahi reef, a.k.a., Jaws, on the north shore of Maui.

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Skier Shane McConkey Killed BASE-Jumping in Italy

by steve casimiro on March 26, 2009 · 20 comments

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It’s a sad, tragic day for skiing: Shane McConkey, one of the sport’s brightest stars of the last 20 years, was killed today in a ski-BASE jumping accident in Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.

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Fractal Rock: The Stunning, Crenelated Marshlands of Spain

by steve casimiro on March 12, 2009 · 2 comments

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The salt marshes of southern Spain’s Coto Donana National Park seem alive, breathing, organic, brainlike, capillary. Photographer Hector Garrido has been flying over the Andalusian reserve for the last few years, documenting what he calls the earth’s “fractal harmony”

Transcontinental Aerial Luminescence Is Pretty

by steve casimiro on February 16, 2009 · 0 comments

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Treat yourself to 54 magical seconds of nighttime visual poetry. Returning from Amsterdam to San Francisco, James Leng was struck by the beauty of lights from Midwestern cities glowing through the clouds. He pulled out his Nikon D300, rigged a mound of blankets to stabilize the camera, and spent the next three hours snapping the still photos that became this wonderful video.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: The Aerial Art of George Steinmetz

by steve casimiro on January 15, 2009 · 4 comments

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Most of us dream of flying. Some of us dream of shooting for National Geographic. Only George Steinmetz has achieved both–and at the same time. Steinmetz, 51, has spent much of the last 12 years motoring above the African landscape in a gas-powered paraglider, engine and propeller strapped to his back, camera in both hands. His aerial images are deeply saturated with color, richly detailed, and…