JCC Awesome Photographs/Pictures (Cite your Sources as per OP)

A photo I took of the san Rafael Glacier in Chile last Feb, half a dozen shots stitched together, click on it for more detail.

 

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The last ET

 

Sorry, it's a big one.

 

^ Central Park?

 

Yes, the caption where I snagged it said 7500 feet above NY.

 

A small object hits of one Saturn's rings

 

From Twitter:

 

F-15's intercepting Mig 29's in 1989

 

^ Way cool. Any idea where it was taken? Or which pair is which?

 

Yeah, that's a really good photograph. It almost looks like something out of a movie. I wonder how it was taken.

 

The explanation

two U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles out of Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska intercepting a pair of Soviet MiG-29s over the Bering Sea back in the day.
The shot, taken in 1989, shows the wingman crossing over the lead jet’s contrail in order to position himself behind the MiGs should he need to open fire on them with the lead fighter zooms up parallel the MiGs to get a visual ID of the Soviet planes. The wingman, now trailing both the formation leader and the Soviet planes, can monitor all the jets in the air while positioning himself to fire. The pic was taken from the gun camera of one of two other F-15s that were right behind the jets shown.

 

That's a crystal clear image for a gun camera. But I suppose when I think of gun camera footage, it's usually the old WW2 grainy black & white film clips.

 

The South Pole... of Jupiter

 

San Vicente, El Salvador

 

Dunnottar Castle in Scotland

 

Scroll up and you'll see this from the north looking south. This is the same but south looking north.

 

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An article concerning this photo

 

I thought this was a painting at first. Devil’s Punchbowl Falls, New Zealand

 

Wow, that is beautiful. I can understand why you thought that might be a painting at first.