{"id":12741,"date":"2008-04-30T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/earth-from-on-high.html"},"modified":"2008-04-30T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:03:32","slug":"earth_from_on_high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/earth_from_on_high\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth from on high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliza.de\/\">Michael Poliza<\/a>* has produced a stunning collection of aerial photos, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eyes-over-Africa-Michael-Poliza\/dp\/3832792090\">Eyes Over Africa<\/a>.&#160; <\/em>He says, &quot;The images came mostly from an<br \/>\n8-week helicopter expedition from Hamburg to Cape Town. &#160;Lots of<br \/>\nzickzacking over this amazing continent.&#160; The Lightroom beta &amp; LR 1.0 was the tool to work my way thru the 30,000 images.&quot;&#160; You can browse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyes-over-africa.com\/\">more than 200 of the images<\/a> on his site via Flash (also available in smaller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliza.de\/webs\/EOAXXL\/content\/index.html\">HTML form<\/a>, both uploaded from LR).&#160; Beautiful<br \/>\nzickzacking indeed. <\/p>\n<p>A few months ago Michael dropped by Adobe to visit with Tom Hogarty and me.&#160; He brought with him his &quot;newest baby,&quot; <em>Eyes Over Africa XXL<\/em>.&#160; He&#8217;s not kidding about that suffix:&#160; &quot;It will be the largest coffee table book ever that was purely shot digitally. Almost 50 (!) lbs and definitely huge.&quot;&#160; Just for fun, he used his iPhone to call up a satellite image of the same coordinates displayed on one of the pages, then laid the phone on the book.&#160; For further weirdness points, I then snapped a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/mp1a.jpg\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/mp2a.jpg\">shots<\/a> of the layout using <em>my<\/em> iPhone.&#160; (At this point there was a great disturbance in the Force.) <\/p>\n<p>For more Earth from above: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Geographic rounds up some great stuff in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/books\/condor\/photos.html\">Through the Eyes of the Condor<\/a>. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>In honor of Earth Day, NASA offered their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/2300-11397_3-6237965-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg\">Top 10 Views of Earth<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* Coincidentally the elder brother of GoLive founder Andreas Poliza<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Michael Poliza* has produced a stunning collection of aerial photos, Eyes Over Africa.&#160; He says, &quot;The images came mostly from an 8-week helicopter expedition from Hamburg to Cape Town. &#160;Lots of zickzacking over this amazing continent.&#160; The Lightroom beta &amp; LR 1.0 was the tool to work my way thru the 30,000 images.&quot;&#160; You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}