This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
In 1993, a local Chicago reporter covering the St. Patrick's Day parade spotted Tommy Lee Jones filming a movie amidst the festivities and stopped him for a quick interview. The movie was THE FUGITIVE 🔥
@DOB23@abaselineview@IHSA_IL Joey Range was incredible, played against him in a Rock island tournament that year when I was a junior, I had never played against a HS player that good in my life. Kevin Frey and Lucas Johnson were in my conference and they seemed average compared to Range
Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham join Ari and Ben to debate which historic figures deserve to be on the Mount Rushmore of U.S. Non-Presidents.
Legacies examined. Impact measured. History debated. But only 4 will be etched in Rushmore history.
HOW'D WE DO?
Do you know the story of the Titleist logo?
The company was looking for a word that was synonymous with excellence. 'Titleist' was unanimously chosen as the name of the golf ball and brand.
An company exec suggested the handwriting of an office secretary, named Helen Robinson, who he said had "beautiful penmanship".
Helen was given a sheet of paper and asked to write the word ‘Titleist.’ The way she wrote the word on the page that day is exactly how one of the world’s most recognised marks continues to appear today, gracing every piece of Titleist since that day in 1935.
Rare home video footage of Eilleen Twain, playing for friends and family at Christmas time in 1991, just before signing a record contract, she changed her first name to Shania.
Cool historical photos: https://t.co/Pgcn2bknZu