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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

Think you look cool with a camera in hand? Nobody’s as cool as this NASA photographer riding in an F-18 jet!

Photographer takes aerial picture of Washington, D.C from backseat of fighter jet aircraft. .

No matter how long you or I dedicate ourselves to photography, nor how many amazing pictures we take or state-of-the-art cameras we own, none of us will ever come remotely close to being as cool as NASA career photographer Jim Ross.

On July 04, to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA (in 1776), Ross took to the skies in an F-18 fighter jet, snapping bird's-eye pictures of Washington, DC. Taking part in the Freedom 250 Flyover, Ross, with a Nikon Z9 in hand, also captured frames of an accompanying F-15 fighter.

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