Although I work in a downtown L.A. high-rise, I rolled the dice and decided to watch the Endeavour's flyover from the San Gabriel Mountain foothills above NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
I thought I might be able to get a little closer and I was hoping to get a photo of the shuttle with downtown L.A. and the Santa Monica Mountains in the distance. Unfortunately, there was mostly smog in the distance.
But the shuttle had a nice flyover and I grabbed a few shots with my crap-o 70 to 200 mm Nikon lens, which somehow manages to kind of work despite being dropped in the ocean and caught in a Mojave Desert sandstorm.
The light kind of sucked, so I ran the above photo (which was heavily cropped) through the Snapseed app on my iPad and gave it a vintage feel. Suddenly not so bad. The effects help make up for lack of perspective -- let's face it, this photo could have been taken anywhere along the shuttle's voyage from Florida to L.A.
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--S.H.
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