From the Boostervision tubular HD cam.
I’ll annotate some cool details in the mouse-over notes above, and show the climb sequence below.
10 responses to “Looking Down the Rocket back at us”
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Back to the climb:
In the upper right corner, you can see our SUV and my shadow on foot just across the trail (taking the ground photos)Climbing, with a slight amount of roll:
and leaving a shadow
A nice view of the lakes and foothills to the Sierras:
Zooming back for 5 seconds before the chutes unfurl:
Bam! Bouncing up quite a bit after first impact:
The strap-on-camera falls off (ripping through four strips of Gorilla tape) upon landing, but it kept on ticking.These frame grabs are from the compilation video (or HD version).
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What a great sequence of images.
And really like the notes on the main image too – thanks
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I love your images and your videos. Reminds me of when my father used to buy me model rocket kits, though nothing of the size or caliber of what you play with.
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thanks y’all.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/phillybits] – it has gotten so much better. Revisit it as an adult… (some pointers on ScienceBlogs or photo-sequence of the early days in my TED talk)
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