[Leica] Photographing the Pluto Scientists with a Leica

[Howard Ritter]

Excellent “in situ” portraits, Kyle, but they’re by you, and that’s your forte (or one of them), so no surprise there. I was particularly impressed, and pleased, that you were invited to photograph them, as astronomy has been my principal hobby for over 50 years.

I was even more pleased to see that one of your subjects (in 3D yet!) was (Dr) Brian May. Call me crazy, but somehow the world just seems a slightly better place because one of the founding and enduring members of one of the all-time great rock groups is also an actual PhD astrophysicist.

—howard


> On Jul 20, 2015, at 11:33 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This past Friday & Saturday I set up a studio at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins and photographed the principle scientists from the New Horizons mission with a Leica M9.
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> Slate magazine published the photo essay here:
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> http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/07/20/kyle_cassidy_photographs_the_new_horizons_science_team.html
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> I have a behind the scenes with Leica geekery here:
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> http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/816443.html
> 
> a tumblr post I made about it on friday has almost a quarter of a million notes on it now (and I did that one with my phone). 
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