December 7 marked the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualized our planet forever. [Read More]
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Last Saturday marked 4/20, an international celebration of all things weed, and to mark it Dmitri Tcherbadji of Analog Cafe processed a roll of photo film using cannabis flower in a developer he calls Sativa Cannanol. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-04-22 16:52
Lead image: 'The 'Blue Marble', the first human-taken photograph of the Earth fully illuminated, December 7-19, 1972, Harrison Schmitt [Apollo 17]. Estimate: Christie's has placed up for auction a massive collection of images, many of which document the American space program from the 1940s through the 1970s. dpreview.com »
2020-11-13 00:15
The Capitol was still under construction on March 4th, 1857, when photographer John Wood set up his wet plate collodion camera and captured the first known photograph of a US Presidential inauguration. petapixel.com »
2017-01-20 20:48