Monday morning after only a couple hours of sleep thanks to a late night at Yankee Stadium, I boarded a plane from LaGuardia Airport to Palm Beach to visit my parents. It was just another too early Monday morning flight, I settled into my seat and soon fell asleep. Somewhere over North Florida I woke up, found out we’d be able to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor, I moved over to the window seat and with my iPhone (airplane mode on) in my hand, took a few pictures that over the next 48+ hours, would make their way around the world.
After landing and while waiting for my suitcase at baggage claim I checked into the airport on Foursquare and then I tweeted “Three things about my flight: I can lay down across 3 seats just fine, it was freezing & I got to see this.” I included the following photo:
Space Shuttle Endeavor from Delta flight 2285
Next thing I knew I had to turn off my Echofon mentions on my phone because my phone wouldn’t stop vibrating. Turns out the picture above and the photo below had gone viral!
What has happened over the last few days has been, for lack of better words, crazy and overwhelming. My picture has been tweeted by @BreakingNews, @NASA, @WeatherChannel and @JimCantore (of the weather channel), just to mention a few and now my 2 tweeted photos have been viewed almost 800,000 times!
I have been interviewed by (please forgive me if I missed one):
MSNBC
AP
CBS (New York, West Palm Beach and National)
ABC (Miami, West Palm Beach and National)
Star Ledger
MJ Morning Show (Syndicated)
NPR
Palm Beach Post
St Petersburg Times
Washington Post (the photo immediately above, ran in the Tuesday print edition)
Time
Mashable
And possibly the coolest thing…Brian Williams from NBC blogged about me!!
I know there are other blog posts and articles about the photos and me, but I can’t list them all. I suggest you just Google my name if you really care that much. A cousin of mine posted on my Facebook page that she had and suggested I do the same. All I did was type in “Stefanie” and my last name was the first name to pop up! I was above Stefanie Powers (I spell my name with an F because of her, my Dad liked the spelling).
I’m not going to go into anymore details because, well…you’ve probably already read them in any of the above pieces or saw the interviews on TV or read my tweets.
If you didn’t know all of this, you must have been living under a rock!
Suddenly my Twitter following has gone from just about 1,800 on Monday morning to over 5,400 as I type this on Wednesday night. I had intended to write this blog post Tuesday morning but because of interviews all day Monday and Tuesday and then spending the day with my mom for her birthday today, I find myself finally getting around to finishing my side of the story.
This whole viral situation has completely caught me off guard. I never thought anything of the magnitude my photo would have when I sent an innocent tweet moments after I landed in West Palm Beach. I am still in shock about it all. Will this lead to bigger and better things? Well as someone who is currently seeking full time employment….I hope so. As a matter of fact my Twitter friend @Metsgrrl suggested I tweet that I’m looking for a new job and to post my Linkedin profile. So that’s exactly what I did!
So far nothing solid has come though, but there are a few possibilities out there.
If you have found my blog because you clicked on a link in an article about me, or on my twitter page, HI! Thanks for reading. I tweet mainly about sports, and only once in a while about Space Shuttle launches. I take pictures of everything from Yankees games, to crazy clothes I see in stores, to random amazing things I see while walking around cities such as Manhattan. Photography is a hobby. I blog mainly about my experiences in life, sporting events I attend, or sports in general. I don’t blog just to blog. I blog because I have something to say and I think one or two people might want to read about it.
Monday morning I boarded a plane for a week of relaxing, sending out resumes and most importantly, to celebrate my mom’s birthday in Florida. Monday afternoon I became an instant “15 minute celebrity” for a few pictures I took with my phone.
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Nice post and great photos. Will continue to follow you and look forward to more blog posts in the coming weeks and months.
Happy Birthday to your Mum, hope you had a great celebration with her.
Good luck with the job search.
I wonder if anyone on the shuttle took a picture of your plane.
hahahahaha…i don’t know why, i just thought that was funny. 🙂
Haha! That would be funny.
Wonderful picture, congratulations.
Congrats on your new found fame and on being Freshly Pressed and thanks for sharing that amazing photo with the world!
cool!
It’s really great article keep posting, nice article
Caught your pic on twitter – fabulous should be tweet of the year:-))
I would like to see more of your photos in your blog
Good luck on the job thing
Namaste
I am so proud of you for capturing the amazing image and the attention you are getting from this. Being an avid Yankee fan (former NY’er now trapped in Fla) I am also following you on Twitter too. I love watching this picture attention snowball for you. Congrats!!!
Oh…I am also committing the sin of envy!
Really cool pictures,I think I’m going to buy a i-phone
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Very cool! Great picture. =)
great photos for sure!!
Great to hear the back-story behind an overnight sensation. Hope you get your dream job and continue to tell your story via blogging and photography. And, cool pictures!
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Nice post!!!
Now that you have been Fresh Pressed, you will get even more followers! Congrats on all of it (unless I should be sending sympathies… it is probably a bit overwhelming!). In any case, great photos! You were definitely in the right place at the right time!
~Chrystal
I think i just dropped my jaw on this one! Amazing is an understatement! Great grrrreat shots!
Very nice. 🙂
Mozel tov on the photo! It’s great. Love it when good things happen to good people. All the best to you!
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Wow! I wish I could someday take a picture of an alien. Love the photos. And great to know the story behind ’em 🙂 I’ll be back!
Very cool pics! Enjoy the moment and the buzz these pics created….you never know it could lead to something down the road 😀
Congrats on making Freshly Pressed too!
So cool! It was meant to be! Congrats.
Hey Stefanie
Awesome pics and story. Good Luck with finding a job, should be easy now. I see your a Yankee fan, you should check out mine and my friends blog/podcasts on our site simplysports-talk.com. We live in NY and always have good sports stories up on our site.
Thanks and Good Luck,
Brendan Kelly
@simplysportstlk
Those are some of the coolest photos I have ever seen, and I am a photographer
you are having a good week! Now your blog followers will be up too! Too bad my flight to Florida this AM won’t be as exciting!
Wonderful pictures. Its great that you were prepared for these great shots with your iPhone:)
Great pictures, talk about the right place at the right time!! Just shows that looking out the window isn’t always just clouds!! Hope this fame helps with the job hunt, good luck and thanks for posting the pictures.
I wonder if your plane flew passing into Space Shuttle launch dangerous zone. It seemed that if anything were went wrong the Endeavour could have went your way. However your picture really great. Warm regard from Indonesia.
We were 30 miles away.
Now there’s one hell of an iPhone ad. I see a marketing deal with Apple in your future!
@Dan, LOL… I totally agree….rili cool pics
What a wonderful story. You got a great shot, but what’s more you seized on an opportunity. I bet others on the plane saw that and didn’t snap it. I hope more opportunities come your way.
wow, what an incredible experience! love the power of social media. good luck with a job. even if one doesn’t come from this, you still have the coolest experience ever to talk about for ages!
alyson — http://www.theaveragegirlsguide.com (I live near WPB, saw your pic in our PB Post!)
hi – i’m one of those few people who want to read what you have to say. cool pics. good blog. 🙂
Had a good trip!
Very cool, congrats on snapping these awesome photos and the ensuing chaos that followed! I found you via freshly pressed, but am wading through all the coverage now =)
Also (just a head’s up) the links in the post the go to the tweets don’t work. You don’t have to publish this comment, just wanted to let you know!
I agree with Dan! I bet Steve Jobs is going to come knocking!
Cool! It doesn’t happen everyday, that’s for sure. 😀
How lucky for you to get to take the pictures and for the rest of the world to see them. Coming up through a cloud cover is an amazing photo. Super!
I am living under a rock. Apparently. Yikes, way to point that out for me! 🙂 Great shots though. Bet you haven’t heard that before!!
I just found you on Freshly Pressed at WordPress. Congratulations! May your amazing photos and ’15 minutes’ lead to glorious job offers and more great adventures!
As did I! Sounds like a whirlwind, best of luck to you & will continue to read!
Really cool. Thank you for sharing.
You know you got on WordPress’ “Freshly Pressed” today? Watch your hit count sky-rocket (no pun intended). I was on FP yesterday and its ridiculous.
GREAT shots. Happy to see that a “regular” person is getting good credit where credit is due. Enjoy!
Thank you!
Nice!! Right place at the right time, and viral was the just reward for a great image! Don’t think a $2,000.00 Nikon would have captured it better. Wishing you all things good.
So magical… congrats! Have fun riding the wave!
Wow, what a story! I was one of those people living under a rock and had no idea until I decided to click on your blog based on the post title and it appearing on the front page of wordpress. I was intrigued. What an exciting time for you! Great photos, and good thinking to take them!, and best of luck to you on the job search!
Wow that was a great picture! I don’t believe you were that close to it! Amazing! Your like a celebrity now 😉 hehe
Wow! Congrats! I do live under I rock!
I like under a rock, too! Well, not so much… I found your blog post at least! (from Freshly Pressed)
Congratulations on your 15 minutes. I think you have handled it well. Enjoyed your MSNBC interview.
Good luck on your job quest. You have a lot of new experience to add to you resume!
I will be looking for your future blogs..
Wow. If that doesn’t speak to the power of social media, I don’t know what does!
I wish you endless luck and prosperity in the job search. Now if only I could figure out Twitter, perhaps I could channel the power of social media as well!
Until then, I’ll just keep blogging about my crazy life, post-divorce…
Best of luck!
That second photo is fantastic. It looks like a needle pulling a string out of a sea of cotton.
Good imagery! (As an aspiring [to be published, other than on my blog] poet I like good imagery.)
It’s guite a lumpy string, perhaps one of those soft kinds.
Ooops, sorry, quite a lumpy string.
Wow. You’re shot was even luckier than you think! That flight was the second-to-last EVER space shuttle flight! After the Atlantis goes up in July they will glide into the hangars of history and be launched no more. Very sad. I was in Fla in March and I saw the Endeavor on the pad, exactly one month before you took your shot. I’m sorry, I just can’t fathom how unbelievably AWESOME this is! I am in tears of awesome!
Yes, this was really a once-in-a-lifetime event! REALLY! 🙂
Good blog how’s it feel to be famous ? I’m gonna add your blog to my link page at http://thor27.wordpress.com later gal !
And now, on top of all the rest… you’re also Freshly Pressed!!
Congrats! Here’s hoping that this DOES lead to bigger and better things 🙂
And now you’ve been Freshly Pressed! Man, got any stock tips or lottery numbers you’d like to throw out there? Congrats on your famousness!
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that is so wild! and exciting. viral power is crazy and i think its fun that you got caught up in it for a few days! that’s way more than 15 seconds of fame 🙂
those are some awesome shots, too.
for the job (just some honesty from a stranger here) i’d recommend making your post a little less “wanna hire me????” and more “i’m a sports business-something-or-other and am currently looking for a job” – try to fit in as much as possible in those god damn 140 characters. 🙂 just trying to help! good luck! P.S. LinkedIn works really well too.
Thank you. I went with interesting hashtags. As you know 140 characters when including a link isn’t much.
Woah, those pictures are amazing. Must have been incredible to see that (:
Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Great photos. Enjoy the ride….
yeah!
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Talk about being at the right place at the right time. Amazong shots!
Wow, awesome pics and story. If only I could get Brian Williams to blog about me! Great job.
wow….Kudos for the pictures… And now “Freshly Pressed” !!! Congrats.. Good luck 🙂
That is sooo cool! You go girl 🙂 Love, love, love the photo by the way.
Wow! So much more entertaining than In-Flight Magazine! Great shots. I hope you are milking this for all it’s worth! 🙂
i’m one of those people that live under a rock 🙂 i just saw this because your blog was on the homepage of wordpress and i thought your blog title was interesting: notyourtypicalgirl
but what a cool experience to kind of stumble upon seeing the space shuttle!! thanks so much for sharing!
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Very cool! I saw this photo in my local paper, but had no clue it was you who took it! 🙂
That’s an amazing story.
You have great timing. We’ll have to send you as an embedded reporter soon. Navicus delivers best-in-suite Employment Screening I am glad to have stubledupon this article.
So do you know where you were (like what state) when the picture was taken?
North Florida. We were about 30 miles west of Cape Canaveral
Very cool! I live in FL so I see the shuttle take off all the time!
going to space would be so weird. cool pic!!
that is incredible. you are super lucky!
Congrats on going viral…and on being Freshly Pressed! I appreciate your comments about blogging: blog because you have something to say, and if the world reads it, so be it. Good luck on the job search!
I’m going to start taking pictures of EVERYTHING. You know, just in case. Conrats on all of it!!!
Thats amazing! And insane…. So have you gotten your job yet? 😉 Yeah… I googled you. Haha.
Hey, you people should look at my blog! Because… you know you want to. =)
Haha, that is so awesome! I have to agree that you were definitely in the right place at the right time. Put aside how awesome it is that you’ve been interviewed that many times, but it is even more awesome that you got to see something like that! You are one in a few!
very cool pics, what an opportunity and you got the pic!
awesome. congrats!
Don’t you just love being in the right place at exactly the right time.. 😉 Nice write up!
These photos are amazing, and you wholly deserve the attention! I recently experienced a little web fame of my own thanks to the launch. My blog hits went from 5 a day to 3000 in a matter of hours. 🙂 Not as exciting as being interviewed by every news agency in the US, but still pretty neat! -Best Wishes Jamie
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Can anyone tell me what a hashtag is and how to use it?
you’re very very lucky to stumple upon this unique space shuttle trip, but first of all you were very ready and smart to understand what it was and to take a pic about it. So good luck for your future!!
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Wow … What an exciting few days, and now you can add Freshly Pressed to your list of accomplishments. Must have been a whirlwind. They are great photos though, and I cannot wait to show them to my 6-yr old son who is fascinated by spaceships and astronauts.
Very cool. Congrats!
Congrats! It’s a dizzying ride from anonymous civilian to Famous Person. Sounds like you’ve enjoyed it.
What is “airplane mode”??
Airplane mode is when you turn off the radio transmission to your phone. So I can’t make a call, but I can listen to my ipod, play games and use the wifi if the flight offers it.
That’s stunning!
I guess I live under a rock. I’ve not read or watched any of those interviews – but then I rarely watch TV and even more rarely those programs/stations you’ve noted.
I saw your photo online through a political website – it was clear that the photo had gone “viral”. Amazing photos to be sure.
Pretty cool though. One of those, ‘right time, right place’ kind of things. Cool beans for you. And, if you can leverage that 15 minutes into something positive and productive, so much more so the better.
Awesome photos…I know some of the places that used your picture didn’t give the credit to you, but we know it’s you. Congrats on your 15 min!
Saw this pic on MSNBC.com I think. Stunning! I’m surprised aircraft were allowed so close.
wow! this is awesome! i would have loved to see something like that! I do live under a rock not knowing about this. Good luck on the job search!
Great photo and blog, I work at NASA and posted to my FB…a view of shuttle rarely seen! Good luck job hunting!
Thank you! And thanks to NASA for RTing my picture!
that’s incredible!
Thats thirty miles? Wow, you can see forever!
That’s awesome! Congratulations!
Glad I knew you before you became famous! lol
Now I can tell people: “Oh Stef? Yeah, her and I go back since the 6th grade” haha
Really great stuff! I’m happy for you.
Oh so you’re mr comedian now huh? haha
Nice job of citizen journalism. Bravo!
Very cool! Clicked over from the WordPress dashboard and glad I did, that photo is amazing!
Thank you so much
That’s awesome – what a great opportunity and amazing photo’s!
And now you’re FP and getting even more exposure! WAY TO GO, GIRL!
That is AWESOME! What a cool picture and whirlwind experience!! Best of luck on the job hunt!
Your photo just made this overcast and rainy day in Austin much better. It reminded me of the amazing activities currently occuring above these clouds.
What a fun story! Glad I found it on “Freshly Pressed”. Good for you…and good luck in the job search. (As for me…I was visiting Florida from TX, and as the shuttle launched I was UNDER that blanket of clouds seen in your photo…driving from Tampa to Ft. Myers to catch MY plane…and couldn’t see a darn thing b/c of the clouds!)
Congrats on your 15 minutes – what a lucky shot!!
That must have been a truly awesome thing to witness. Thanks a bunch for being able to snap a picture so you could share with the world!
Oh wow so it was yours! I was wondering who was the lucky person who took a video/snapped photos of this. I was on the ground in Florida, watching the shuttle live, and was wondering at the moment if there was anyone in the an airplane who could see it, and boy I really wanted to get that perspective. A day or two later, I found a video of it on the Telegraph newspaper! Congratulations! Thank you for the wonderful, mind-blowing perspective! It is by far the most amazing thing I have ever seen!
Wow, that’s cool!
Right place, right time, great shot – and thanks for bringing me out from under the rock that is the twilight zone of travelling!
Good luck with follow-ups, carpe diem!
Absolutely awesome photos, well done you. I have just spent ages reading your previous post and the discussion that followed – keep up the good work! Really great blog and congrats on being freshly pressed!
Talk about being at the right place at the right time–with a camera in hand no less. What serendipity there is in life! Keep having fun, congrats on being FPed as part of this step into fame, and good luck with the job search.
I live right by Yankee Stadium and I probably saw your plane fly over my house. I should have taken a picture and Tweeted it.
Congratulations on your photo opportunity-of-a-lifetime and the well-deserved press you’ve gotten as a result! I saw the image come through my Twitter feed and posted about it on my FB as well. Lucky you were on that side of the plane!!
Nice photos. I wish I had been in the air at that time :-). Here is the best we can get from where we live!
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wow, this is the first I have heard of this. I was in at the Kennedy Space center for the launch but this is def a cool new perspective on the shuttle! I cant believe the program only has one more lunch and then the shuttle program is gone forever 😦 anyway, I am writing a book, check out my blog if you get a chance 🙂
Incredible. Amazing.
I have seen most of the shuttle flights from my perch here in Orlando. But your perspective was the best. Thanks for posting this amazing pic. Best of luck in your job search.
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very neat =)
Interesting post, isn’t it?
The Best to you dear! You got two amazing shots!!! enjoy all of it, no matter how long it all lasts…everything that happens leads tosomething new! Congrats!
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This is an awesome story. Best of luck with your job search!
Great post and photos…congratulations!!! I will surely keep my iPhone turned ON (in Airplane Mode) when in flights from now on.
Wow – what fabulous photos, congratulations! I’ve just had them up on my screen at work here in Oz, and before I knew it, I was surrounded by people hustling for a better look!
Cool pictures,take pictures is a great fun,and iphone is also a good camera,hope for having more photos.
Those pictures are pretty amazing, so I can see how they went viral…I can only imagine the shock when you realized what was happening! Hopefully it works out in your favor for finding a job! Congrats and good luck!
Well I have been living under a rock! This is the first time I’ve seen those photographs, and can certainly understand why they’ve made you an instant hit! They are astonishing!
I watched a space shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral in the summer of 1984, from a very long distance of course. The shuttle was just barely visible–I had to use binoculars to see it well. But the roar and the vibration under my feet I will never forget!
Obviously you got a much better view–congratulations, and thank you for sharing those with us!
You were correct to be bemused. Similar shots have been taken throughout the years of the space-transportation-system, aka shuttle, and of other launch vehicles. Any illustrated book about the space program is likely to include one. But despite this fact, it is still uncommon enough for an ordinary passenger jet (rather than a supervising NASA jet) to be at the appropriate flight level and map location, and in the appropriate time slot (and before the vapour trail clears), to enable a live view of a spacecraft on its way out there. Congratulations on being one of the few lucky ones to see this great sight in reality. Well done for taking the picture. And thank-you for letting us less-lucky people see it.
what an awesome image. talk about being in the right place, at the right time 🙂 congrats!
Love the photo is was seen here in Australia too.
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You deserve the best Ms. Stephanie.
Amazing when life happens just right isn’t it? Awesome that you had the moment and could share that forever changed dimension of yourself with so many!
I read this because it was the only blog to catch my eye on the wordpress homepage today. Awesome pics.
I’m so proud of you! You captured 2 great photos… and both of them are AMAZING PHOTOS. Wow, what an amazing experience!
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That is AWESOME! What a cool picture and whirlwind experience!! Best of luck on the job hunt!
Wow that’s really cool. Your pictures were instant hits! anyway, they’re real amazing though! 🙂
nice post… ! great pictures!
Cool pics you are uploaded wonderful…!!
keep it up….!!
Such an awesome thing.
Congrats on everything!
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Nice post! And nice snap BTW. Great thing you had a great timing in capturing this cool pic! Good job!
I am pretty sure that I have been there before.
Isn’t technology great? Congrats, hoping you find employment soon.
carpe diem…I would say you are poised for opportunity and in a position to seize it. Thank you for these amazing pictures! And, Congratulations on your lucky week! btw I wonder what your horoscope reads.
What an awesome picture! And I totally agree with your statement: “I blog because I have something to say and I think one or two people might want to read about it.”
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Instafame from an iphone? Make the most of it while it lasts 😉
Wonderful snapshot! Congratulations! 🙂
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Definitely cool! I find it fantastic that you were at the right place at the right time holding your phone. Good luck on your viral adventure – I hope the crazies stay at bay. 🙂
There is some nice body surfing down there right?
Wow, talk about being at the right place at the right time!
Must feel great to have your picture and story heard around the world.
I’d love to hear what comes of this “instant stardom” for you. Good luck with your job search:)
Hey, wonderful photos!
It just goes to show there is such a thing as “being in the right place at the right time”
Well done!
Hi there…I work at CBS News in NY…we saw your photos right after you posted. In a word: spectacular! I once saw the launch from I-75…and it was majestic…but your pix are beyond that. Way to go Stefanie! 🙂
Thank you. I had once seen a launch from Tampa. This was amazing.
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Soooooo cool!!! love your pics!
Cool picture… that is crazy that it got so much attention though?!? Good job!
To have seen that moment while in the air yourself? Spectacular!
To have (and not fumble) the technology available to capture the moment & share it with all? Unbelieveable…!
Thank you for sharing with us .. Cheers, MJ
sounds exciting. and the pictures really are something!!! :)0
sounds exciting. and the pictures really are something!!! 🙂
Awesome photographs! Wow you are really lucky to have seen such an amazing sight! And god bless the iPhone .x
Really really great shot! The right place at the right time, and THERE YA GO! Good luck with the job search — seems like a turning point in your life.
Wow congrats on becoming famous 😀
WOW these photos are absolutely amazing, I saw these photographs via facebook and only stumbled across this blog post because you “very rightly so” achieved FP on wordpress, well done you for everything, its a great achievement that you can tell to your children, grandchildren etc ect never forget 🙂
Wow! It’s funny b/c I have a pic from the beach below…but your pic kicks my pic’s ass out of the water…Or out of this Earth
We were down by Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, so we only got a brief view before it went into the cloud deck. I think that same cloud deck the Space Shuttle is punching through is what makes your photographs so beautiful.
Thanks for taking the photos and sharing them! OUTSTANDING!
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Well. That’s freakin’ awesome. I live in Florida and we see this pretty often. But you have the BEST. Ever. You’re never allowed to be sad again.
Really cool 🙂 I envy you being able to see something so powerful and symbolic like that. I live in Ireland so we never see any shuttle launches pass over as such, something did last year though, I remember seeing it and it was all over the news, some rocket or something launched from the US with a satelite onboard, either way it wasn’t half as awe inspiring or up close as this!
I think you’ve just inspired me to make an attempt at photography again 🙂
Fantastic post
Did you land a job?
Not yet. But a few possibilities have come from this.
I’m afraid to say this, but I have been living under a rock I think. A big rock. So sorry 😦 But I congratulate you on being Freshly Pressed, being famous in less than a day too. That’s wonderful. Must have been a long week for you. Good luck on job search. Now, on that topic, I can definitely join you.. we are on the same boat. Maybe that’s why I have been living under a rock. I need to get to the top of the rock then. 🙂
How amazing! It’s crazy how quickly information travels 🙂 I’m happy that it’s been such a positive experience for you, and good luck on the job hunt! Beautiful pics.
Yet another random commenter, asking if you’ve found a job yet. I certainly hope you do. Fantastic photos, which I saw on a couple of different astronomy sites.
Keep writing! So many people care about your story now, which in many ways is the most important thing of all!
Hey.
I just was looking around when I stumbled upon your post. I’ve seen these pictures earlier while reading the news. And now, the fact that I bumped into the photographer herself, feels nice.
Congrats on your new fame. And really beautiful pics.
You truly deserve all the attention that you are getting.. Congratulations!!
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Hi Stefanie!
I write you from Spain, I find the news about your photos on this site
http://www.quesabesde.com/noticias/flashazos-acampada-puerta-sol-democracia-real-ya-manu-brabo-liberado-Frans-Lanting,1_7617
Greats pics and OLE!!!!!!!!
wow nice to be noticed and get freshly pressed too. Congrats.
I came by WordPress to sign up and found your post on their front page! Utterly amazing photos – congrats on going viral. Wave from Australia!! \o/
Hey, good for you! I’m glad you’re having your 15 minutes. Isn’t life strange sometimes the way it can take some unexpected turns from the smallest things? And? Even though I’m an avid (ok, crazy) Red Sox fan, I can appreciate that you stayed up late to hang in there with your Yankees. 🙂
I have no problems w/ Red Sox fans, or any other teams fans as long as they respect the game and the players on the other teams. I am a baseball fan before I’m a Yankees fan….an avid and rabid Yankees fan. Thanks for reason! 🙂
It really is amazing what twitter can do!
Oh wow. From the thumnail I thought you taking pictures of a cracked window. The right place at the right time…
Too late now, but you could have cleaned these up and probably sold them for a lot of money. …oh wait …Brian Williams!!! Ha.
Congratulations – you just got the shot that would make most fifteen thousand dollar camera carrying pro photographers jealous. Great work.
John
Awesome. To most people getting freshly pressed is a big thing, but after all the other stuff you got it probably doesn’t even make icing on the cake, just a mere decoration. Way to take advantage of being in the right place at the right time, congrats.
You were at the right place on the right plane !!!
I thought that it was a cracked window at first too, but upon closer inspection I saw that it was actually a beautiful picture.
My sincere congratulations… but from pro photographer’s point of view I think you should have sold that photo instead of giving it away to all those big guys… not only you would have earned money but also would have helped pro photographer’s industry… too many photos are floating around for free these days… if you did sell it, then congrats again! 🙂
Well done on not-a-typical blog, ur original, which is refreshing. I share ur passion for photography, especially taking out of the ordinary pictures (tho nothing as of yet as extra-ordinary as your latest offering). Check out my blog if u want, my attempt at writing 😉
XOXO
WOW! pretty impressive! and such an amazing picture too! 🙂 can’t believe you were able to snap such a great shot! and from an airplane window too!
yeah ive been seeing this picture everywhere! very nice picture good luck with the job.
Fabulous, the newspaper was right to snatch those pics up! Did they pay you for them? Or at least cook you dinner?
FYI, I just heard about this five minutes ago…no, I am not living under a rock; I’m living in sub-arctic Chile 😛 Close enough….haha
Congrats, and I hope you get a job! It’s amazing how the Internet can change our lives so suddenly!
Wishing you continued success…
-MN
That’s a cool story, good luck in your employment search and congrat’s on FP 🙂
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I snagged the pictures last week and thought they were *cool*–being a space buff myself.
That’s beautiful. Amazing sight you got to witness. I’m glad you got to capture it on your phone and share it with the rest of the world.
What kind of phone do you have? That’s a pretty sweet picture considering your plane and the shuttle were moving.
How cool is your story!? I’ve always wondered about those people who capture videos and pictures of newsworthy things and how they react to sudden “stardom!” Work it out girl! Start demanding bottled water fresh from mountain streams, name the designer you’re wearing during each interview, tell CNN you want straws in Diet Coke upon arival to the set, and require that American Woman play as you enter each interview. Hey, that’s what I would do. 15 minutes will come and go so have fun with it! Haha!
You haven’t said anything about this, but your iphone pictures will be forever entwined with this shuttles last mission (now and into the future). You are tied into the annuls of space history now.
I’ve seen this photo so now its nice to see the story behind it. I loved the photos and your writing is excellent. A great story to go along with these amazing pictures. Two Thumbs Up!
I’ve been living under a rock. Until just now. 🙂
Good Evening –
Amazing you were in the perfect place and at the perfect time. You also had no one sitting next to because you were able to lay down over 3 seats. Your shots are spectacular. Funny how non-monumental you thought your photos were at the time you shuttered them, huh. Most excellent post here. Happy Saturday evening to you. 🙂
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Once in a lifetime! WOW!
beware everybody, these photos are FAKE, they are nothing more than a piece of spaghetti being dangled over a bowl of porridge.
Only kidding 🙂 ….how lucky can you get!! Amazing snaps, right place, right time for sure, well done. Maybe yu should buy a lottery ticket!
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nice pictures ! no words enough to describe all things there
Even though it was just a matter of being there at the right moment and right time, i still commend you on your instinct to get a camera (digital camera or phone) and take the picture. Congratulations!
awesome pictures, interesting experience. thanks for sharing it!
This just goes to show that with a little luck and paying attention a lot can happen great post and good luck with the job search
WOW !!! THATS AMAZING !!
I enjoyed your account of how you came take the pictures. I can tell you it made the the six o clock news on the BBC here in the UK. all the best.
That is amazing.
I found your blog because it was in the featured section on WordPress.com
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Congratulations for grabbing such a photo opportunity, and for making the most of it in terms of online exposure!
(I arrived here after spotting your post at “WordPress Freshly Pressed” welcome page.)
It seems the folks at NASA were also flying above the clouds and snapped a few pics themselves 🙂
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/110521stalaunch/
This was a great moment indeed in the history of shuttle launches 🙂
(BTW, all the best of luck in your job search! 🙂
Best regards from Portugal!
that’s pretty amazing. It’s funny how something as small as two photos can set off a chain of events. Well I’m sure being a mini photo celebrity can’t hurt your chances in the job hunt
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Great pics! and congrats on being Freshly Pressed!; I’ll definitely follow your blog 🙂
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Bravo to your pictures, especially the Space Shuttle photo.
Haha, that is so awesome! I have to agree that you were definitely in the right place at the right time. Put aside how awesome it is that you’ve been interviewed that many times, but it is even more awesome that you got to see something like that! You are one in a few!
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that is seriously awesome.
Nice post! And nice snap BTW. Great thing you had a great timing in capturing this cool pic! Good job!
Sooooo Cool~~~~~Pic.. 🙂
Wow that’s really cool. Your pictures were instant hits! anyway, they’re real amazing though!
Let me join the chorus and congratulate you. Seen these photos all over the web. Nice going!
Awesome!! 🙂
Totally awesome pictures!!
CNN wants people to download shuttle launch pictures to them. Have you seen their note on their website? Try cnn.wordpress.com or cnn; breaking news.
Lol.
Thanks for sharing content to read.
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