The COVID-19 pandemic just couldn’t keep the loyal runners, walkers and fans of the 2021 Olmsted Spirit 5K Race away for the second year in-a-row. …
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2021 Olmsted Spirit 5K Race Leaves COVID-19 in the DUST! Read More »
April 1st marks the 44th anniversary of the day I captured a “flying cup-and-saucer” hovering over a local fast-food restaurant in the sleepy town of Du Bois, PA.
Although I've lived in Cleveland since 1980, I was born and raised in Du Bois. During my senior year in high school, there were several reported UFO sightings in the area. On the evening of April 1st, 1977 – I was cruising down “The Boulevard” when the flying cup-and-saucer caught my eye as it swooped in from the east. I and the four teenagers in this photo were the only eye-witnesses of this amazing event. Fortunately I had my camera loaded with high speed film – ready to document this once-in-a-lifetime moment …
👽 44th anniversary of incredible flying saucer sightingRead More »
👽 44th anniversary of incredible flying saucer sighting Read More »
Recently, Gail and Ron Deemer from Ashtabula, Ohio contacted me to restore a large and badly deteriorating photo. It was in a closet for many years and had been folded causing multiple cracks. …
A Photo Restoration Miracle? The Gail and Ron Deemer StoryRead More »
A Photo Restoration Miracle? The Gail and Ron Deemer Story Read More »
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is helping small businesses that are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic with an opportunity to be featured on their show! They are calling this initiative “Colbert's Small Biz Bump. …
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the #ColbertSmallBizBump Read More »
Trumpler 14 is a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy. It was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2017.
I used this photo for the sky in the 360° interactive panorama photo I created of the Martian surface by NASA’s Rover – the Perseverance. See that photo here. …
360° Interactive PHOTO of Mars
You can interact with this photo by clicking anywhere on it and sliding your mouse (or finger if you're on a mobile device) in any direction!
This panorama of the Martian surface was taken with the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Rover – the Perseverance on Feb. 20, 2021. It was “stitched” together by NASA from several individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
I added the sky using a photo of Trumpler 14 – a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy. It was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. See the original photo here.
Although NASA made the original Mars image available for all to see on their website – it is not viewable in the 360° interactive format I created here. …
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I've always loved anything dealing with outer space going all the way back to my childhood. I was thrilled to watch the Gemini missions 🚀 in the 1960s when teachers brought TVs into the classroom so we could see lift-offs and splashdowns as they happened!
I always wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up – 👨🚀. My dad used to call me an astro-NUT because I was such a space geek. I am still fascinated by the U.S. space program and recently watched the NASA “Perseverance” rover land on Mars via live TV. It was exciting to see the mission unfold and I actually got emotional seeing the amazing technicians and scientists at mission control high-fiving each other and whooping it up when they got word that the spacecraft had landed safely. …
My Visit to Udvar-Hazy Center – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ✈️Read More »
My Visit to Udvar-Hazy Center – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ✈️ Read More »
It was a birthday present to myself… a visit to Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center's 🚀- 75 Year Anniversary Open House on May 22, 2016. When I read that the sprawling facility was going to be open to the public with many areas previously unseen – I just HAD to “get onboard!”
The facilities have contributed to some of the nation’s greatest innovations over the last 75 years (now 80 years).
Visitors were guided through world-class facilities where we saw technologies that contribute to the future of NASA in aeronautics and our journey to Mars. We saw a research plane, rocket, a couple of wind tunnels, the Zero-Gravity facility, GRUVE Lab, Propulsion System Lab, Engine Research Building, Glenn Extreme Environment Rig (GEER), the COMPASS Lab and so much more! …
Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center 🚀- 75 Year AnniversaryRead More »
Cleveland’s NASA Glenn Research Center 🚀- 75 Year Anniversary Read More »
A couple years ago, Jim Morabito called to see if I could save an old photo from the 1920s or 1930s that was deteriorating and fading badly. He found it in his attic and realized it had been passed around in his family for several years.
The photo is of the first house that his grandparents lived in on West 65th Street when they immigrated to Cleveland from Italy in the early 1900s. Jim's grandmother had a grocery store and his grandfather had a barber shop downstairs. His grandparents lived in the back of the building and Jim's family lived upstairs. …
Photo Restoration Saves Special Memories for Jim MorabitoRead More »
Photo Restoration Saves Special Memories for Jim Morabito Read More »
This video shows before-and-after photos that were blurry and then fixed with Topaz Sharpen AI. It does not show how to fix them with the software but only the final results.
It only takes a couple of clicks to fix an out-of-focus or blurry photo within the software so that’s why it isn’t demonstrated here.
If you want to try it before you buy it, click here: Topaz Labs “Sharpen” software …
