The shuttle just flew over my house at 35,000 feet. Double sonic booms.
Ran into the living room and watched it land. Pictures perfect landing.

Paul Lamar
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Stitched images of the landing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafleurfamily/3073695166/sizes/l/


Matt-

Wow!  A whole HERD of space shuttles! Didn't know we built that
many...lookit them tax dollars...

Must have a lot of confidence in their landing abilities to follow that
closely...oh, that's right, no go rounds... they HAVE to land...

Harley


I don't know how they did that picture. Really great lens.

Paul Lamar

I'll say...in the "original" size view you can see the eyelashes on that
fly sitting on the runway!
>>I don't know how they did that picture<<

He said it was a stitched picture.  I've done a few like that myself
(not of the space shuttle landing, though...here on the east coast I
have to settle for 360s from the top of a historic hill <G>!)

If that was the case, it looks like they took 11 photos from the
mounted, but rotating camera, then used software (I've used Photoshop
Elements, which did an excellent job, and even my old Ulead's Image Pals
did it, but with a lot more manual work) to combine the pictures along
common items in the picture.

Photoshop elements was automatic.  Just tell it which photos to merge,
and it sorted them, found common parts of the picture to align, and
merged them... adjusting the color, contrast, brightness, skew and
panorama as it went.

Matt probably used a bit more sophisticated software, as the break
between the images is not at all noticeable.

Harley