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Dirk Fletcher: Shooting Skyward October 6,2013

Lenscratch is a contemporary daily photography blog. It was created by Aline Smithson in 2007. Since 2007 Lenscratch has featured the work of over 2,000 photographers. Lenscratch is organized by a side bar that features recent posts. The blog is visually appealing and extremely informative due to high number of posts.

 The article is about photographer and Harrington College of Design professor, Dirk Fletcher. Dirk directed the students in his class through and experiment that would send four plastic Holga lenses into space. There were many factors that Dirk and his students took into consideration before sending the camera into space, including how to protected the camera, how to attach a GPS, and how to protect the cooler which the camera would be traveling in. Eventually the weather balloon was attached to the cooler and the image was taken over twenty miles into the air. I thought the article was extremely interesting. I had actually already heard about this from the YouTube video that Dirk published, but it was interesting to read what all was taken into consideration for this experiment to happen.

 

http://lenscratch.com/2013/10/dirk-fletcher-shooting-skyward/