The space station

Something like every 17 minutes the International Space Station flies around the earth. You can plug your location into this webpage https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/home.cfm and look to the horizon and see it fly across the sky. You can also watch the live feed on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86YLFOog4GM

I unfortunately where I live there are too many trees and I can’t really see the space station when I look for it, but I sometimes spend time watching the live feed. I sometimes try to recognize land and see where it flies over but usually I can’t. I sometimes watch electrical storms, the night turn to daylight and day turn to nighttime as the space station flies at about 17,000 miles per hour.

I made a small cyanotype book recently. Gold and blue pages, land and sea. I recognize some of the landforms as I look out the space station window, and see the rising tide. I see land being covered by water, on the coasts and along rivers. I keep looking as the world spins and the station zooms by.

cyanotype book
the space stotion as it glides through space

he far east
the far east

Author: jnanian

I am a Freelance Photographer in Rhode Island. I make photographs using a variety of methods with and without a camera. I make photo emulsions from scratch, I coat my own photo paper and make cyanotypes too. I am a huge fan of Caffenol, and instead of instant coffee, I roast my own beans and sell them. I also sell silver recovery products.