Epcot - Spaceship Earth

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  1. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    Here's a thread for the inevitable Spaceship Earth photos that we all love to take.
     
  2. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    I used to work in a place like this, except that the room was filled with the computer and its associated peripherals (the 512k of memory required one refrigerator-sized cabinet) and the women were relegated to data entry jobs.

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    Think
     
  3. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    And here she is again, this time from the front. I got lucky and the ride slowed down a bit at this point.

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    Ready for the disco
     
  4. zackiedawg

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  5. Scottwdw

    Scottwdw Member

    Saw this composition browsing through flickr and wanted to give my take on it. Used the Tokina 16-28mm lens at 16mm, tripod and did a three photo HDR image using Photomatix Pro.

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    Water Planet
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  6. zackiedawg

    zackiedawg Member Staff Member

    This was a particular challenge to photograph - aside from being a little too close for my 35mm lens on a crop body, it's a bit on the dark side!:
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  7. Scottwdw

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    My first car was a red Chevy Vega but it was a hatchback.
     
  8. RedOctober25

    RedOctober25 Member

    Just the outside typical photo at night...

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  9. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    How many times has this happened to you? You're slaving away copying a manuscript on a tight deadline, but you can't concentrate because of the snoring coming from the next cubicle.

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    Some Things Never Change
     
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  10. RedOctober25

    RedOctober25 Member

    As per the first PixelMania... I'm usually the guy snoring in that next cubicle over...
     
  11. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    @Scottwdw posted his "failed" experiment from Test Track yesterday. Today, it's my turn. Coming down the back side of Spaceship Earth, I glimpsed a long row of video monitors spewing forth someone's vision of the future. The next time I rode, I tried to capture that. Unfortunately there are only one or two spots where the curve is just right, and you have to find something for the camera to focus on, etc. Needless to say, I'm going to try a few more times until I get this right.

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    Future Experiment
     
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  12. zackiedawg

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  13. zackiedawg

    zackiedawg Member Staff Member

    I found that communication in the days of early man was sometimes far more advanced than we ever thought. This caveman had drawn a very advanced message - using Phoenician alphabet AND modern English language, and even referencing modern technology, as he proudly points out:
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    He spent the entire day pointing out his message to the thousands of people passing by in strange plastic cars, but no one seemed to be helping him out.
     
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  14. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    That's hilarious! And bad show.
     
  15. zackiedawg

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  16. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    Forty seven years ago, this is what almost everyone in the world was doing: Watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon. Interestingly, the TV in this scene is playing the same CBS coverage of Apollo 11 with Walter Cronkite that I watched at the time.

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    Moongazing
     
  17. RedOctober25

    RedOctober25 Member

    It was such an achievement to bad later in life they stripped him of his cycling titles...


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  18. ddindy

    ddindy Member Staff Member

    That was Lance, you ninny, not Neil. :D
     
  19. RedOctober25

    RedOctober25 Member

    My bad, I'm always getting those two mixed up. One a great cyclist and the other an awesome jazz musician.


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  20. zackiedawg

    zackiedawg Member Staff Member

    You know everytime I pass these two, I just feel like they're so familiar to me. I just can't place where I've seen them before!:
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    Just something about them is so familiar...
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