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Capturing the moment while looking for the meaning.
Digital and 35mm from all over the world.
There are not that many things I can watch over and over again. One of it - openeing and closing of 747 nose-door. That’s the moment when Queen of the skies is getting hungry or smiles at you (depending on the viewing angle). Nurdy fact - thanks to the nose door, loading and offloading of the main-deck cargo can be done faster and it also allows to load and offload extremly long pieces: technically a cargo can be as long as the main deck - 50 meter and as wide as 3.8m.
I’ve been to many US states; however, I never happened to visit DC. Why not hop on a mid-winter weekend trip to the north? For the sake of price, I went for Spirit as Delta charged 5 times more for pretty much the same flights. Our airplane landed in BWI airport the same time first snowflakes landed on the ground. If you are heading to Washington, get ready for a shuttle bus to the BWI railway station first and then take a train. Depending on the time of the day, the entire journey from the airport to the downtown will take you more or less one hour. Most of the trains in the US are noisy and smelly, both from inside and outside.
Texas is special.
They call Houston the energy capital of the world. Might be.
For most people, Houston equals NASA, so the title image will be from the Space Center.
I believe Houston itself has a problem (as most big cities nowadays).
Spending weeks and weeks there, I had enough of I-45, Katy, Beltway 8, and Hardy. These words still give me goosebumps.
Below are a few 35mm film photographs.
Space Center was a nice experience, however, very touristic and kid-oriented. It was exceptionally interesting to see the Historic Mission Control center and Training facilities (to be pre-booked).
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