Amateur photographer's shuttle pic goes viral

[bloodhound31]

Pretty cool! Right place, right place.

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/16/...-goes-viral/#1

[renormalised (Carl)]

Brilliant and very iconic

[midnight (Darrin)]

That's a memorable photo. Makes you wish you were on that flight.

Darrin...

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

How cool!

I hope she got paid by the BBC for using her pic. Probably not as it is all over the net anyway

ho-hum, she is still unemployed No money in fame

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Cool !!

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

Awesome image!

[Ric]

What a fantastic shot.

I always thought it would be a larger exclusion zone for the shuttle liftoff. The distance in the image may be deceptive but it doesn't seem that far.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Love that shot! What's great about all those pictures taken at high altitude is when there's a feature that you can use as a point of reference and gives you an idea of the scale, in this case the smoke column and its shadow on the cloud top layer. Btw, these guys don't look like they're going in a straight line. Who's driving?

[Octane (Humayun)]

It's a common occurrence. YouTube's littered with videos. One of which has been taken by someone who's skydiving. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv5J5cBwwFc

I think that one has been re-uploaded and had the commentary removed. Bugger, because, it was full of "holy ****, look how fast it's going!"

H

[Piers]

Great timing. What a memorable shot!