even awesomer ( for those that have only awesome, cool and humungous in their arsenal of adjectives ) …..
From Ken Rockwell about John Glenn in 1962, in the era of film …
“Glenn was the first American to see a sunrise and sunset from space, and was the first photographer in orbit, having taken along a 35millimeter Minolta purchased from a Cocoa Beach, Florida drugstore.”
“A view of both coasts of Florida taken by Glenn during his space flight using a modified Ansco Autoset 35mm camera with RCN film. NASA photograph”
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.