Photo-frenzy

A photo-frenzy in the room of windows; Gardener keeps a selection of cameras ready to go each with a different lens. When an interesting place comes into view, there might be three of us squeezed elbow-to-elbow snapping away; a target on Earth goes by incredibly fast.
A photo-frenzy in the room of windows; Gardener keeps a selection of cameras ready to go each with a different lens. When an interesting place comes into view, there might be three of us squeezed elbow-to-elbow snapping away; a target on Earth goes by incredibly fast.

From orbit, we cover the 25,000 mile circumference of Earth in 90 minutes. Earth moves by at such a speed that any single location remains set in the “perfect photo” composition for about 10 seconds. If you need to change a lens or mess with the camera settings, you will miss the shot. That is why Gardener keeps a good selection of cameras all set up and ready to go in the room of windows. For an interesting location, there might be three of us in there all clicking away; a photo-frenzy he calls it.

Data mining the Space Station image database in unusual ways; starting with a completely blank map of the Earth, a friend of Gardener’s plotted a small dot at the location of our spacecraft for every photo that has been taken on Space Station (1,129,117 photographs as of March 2013). There is no information about what the photo was taken of, simply the fact that some one did. Surprising details emerge where the outline of all the major continents are visible. There are nearly blank areas such as the Amazon basin and the Congo; these regions are always cloudy so we do not tend to take many photographs there (data presentation by Nathan Bergay, Portland State University).
Data mining the Space Station image database in unusual ways; starting with a completely blank map of the Earth, a friend of Gardener’s plotted a small dot at the location of our spacecraft for every photo that has been taken on Space Station (1,129,117 photographs as of March 2013). There is no information about what the photo was taken of, simply the fact that some one did. Surprising details emerge where the outline of all the major continents are visible. There are nearly blank areas such as the Amazon basin and the Congo; these regions are always cloudy so we do not tend to take many photographs there (data presentation by Nathan Bergay, Portland State University).