using a weather balloon for photography
is sort of like the crossroads between
science and art because you’re using a
scientific instrument really to achieve
an artistic end this freaks me out these
zip ties came loose there goes the
balloon it’s probably the closest I’ll
ever come through touching space after
consulting the satellite imagery online
I’ll look at a lot of road atlases and
national park maps for service maps but
what I’m interested in doing is
capturing scenes of familiar landmarks
but from a unique perspective the Grand
Canyon is a good example of that this
camera is getting a heat pack directly
under it because last time it did not
like the cold when I build the payload
box I’ll try to cover every angle that I
can with cameras
basically you set the wheels in motion
but after you let it go from your hands
it’s out of your control and so it’s
operating on a bit of luck and planning
nothing
it’s come to the point these days where
technically and financially an average
person can actually send a weather
balloon almost to the edge of space
Mount Everest is about 29,000 feet high
roughly and the balloon will fly over
three times as high as Everest and
you’re actually above 99 percent of the
mass of the atmosphere sound doesn’t
carry very well your blood would boil
and you die rather quickly at that
altitude the atmospheric pressure keeps
the helium from expanding so the higher
it goes in the atmosphere the larger the
balloon grows at some point the helium
wins and the balloon will explode into
fragments and the helium will keep going
into space the payload will plummet very
very fast toward the ground
it’s about a third of a mile so
Mississippi’s has to walk toward it Oh
almost on top of it there is holy cow
look your dad everything is intact I
like it because it’s unique and very
very few people are doing it purely for
photographic interest it combines
interest in photography interests in
space and interest in adventure I mean
the Grand Canyon is a spectacular place
you could spend your lifetime just
photographing it in all its various
moods and different weather and to get
it from the unique perspective from the
edge of space I think is special
you
you
is sort of like the crossroads between
science and art because you’re using a
scientific instrument really to achieve
an artistic end this freaks me out these
zip ties came loose there goes the
balloon it’s probably the closest I’ll
ever come through touching space after
consulting the satellite imagery online
I’ll look at a lot of road atlases and
national park maps for service maps but
what I’m interested in doing is
capturing scenes of familiar landmarks
but from a unique perspective the Grand
Canyon is a good example of that this
camera is getting a heat pack directly
under it because last time it did not
like the cold when I build the payload
box I’ll try to cover every angle that I
can with cameras
basically you set the wheels in motion
but after you let it go from your hands
it’s out of your control and so it’s
operating on a bit of luck and planning
nothing
it’s come to the point these days where
technically and financially an average
person can actually send a weather
balloon almost to the edge of space
Mount Everest is about 29,000 feet high
roughly and the balloon will fly over
three times as high as Everest and
you’re actually above 99 percent of the
mass of the atmosphere sound doesn’t
carry very well your blood would boil
and you die rather quickly at that
altitude the atmospheric pressure keeps
the helium from expanding so the higher
it goes in the atmosphere the larger the
balloon grows at some point the helium
wins and the balloon will explode into
fragments and the helium will keep going
into space the payload will plummet very
very fast toward the ground
it’s about a third of a mile so
Mississippi’s has to walk toward it Oh
almost on top of it there is holy cow
look your dad everything is intact I
like it because it’s unique and very
very few people are doing it purely for
photographic interest it combines
interest in photography interests in
space and interest in adventure I mean
the Grand Canyon is a spectacular place
you could spend your lifetime just
photographing it in all its various
moods and different weather and to get
it from the unique perspective from the
edge of space I think is special
you
you
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