Comments on: Photograph the friendly skies

Photograph the friendly skies

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:11:36 -0800

Letchik Leha photography. Letchik Leha is a russian photographer and pilot ("letchik" means "the pilot" in russian, apparently). Two tastes that go great together.

By: furtive

furtive — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:08:28 -0800

For those wondering, the second link is definitely the most rewarding one.

By: tarantula

tarantula — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:12:07 -0800

unedited snapshots?

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:03:17 -0800

These are beautiful, thanks; I could look at aerial photos all day. And the photos of the frozen wave at Dark Roasted Blend are great, too. (I can't believe folks are snarking at this; what fucking assholes.)

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:58:48 -0800

(for posterity, some snark was just deleted)

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:35:04 -0800

Holy cow, I love these. I was particularly taken by the giant frozen wave, too.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:50:20 -0800

I've always wondered what those clumpy spaced clouds would look like from the top.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:41:07 -0800

In case anyone's curious, "letchik" is pronounced LYOT-chik (the first syllable being like the word lot as pronounced by a Brit, i.e. with a sound closer to aw than ah, but with the l strongly palatalized, as if immediately followed by a y, sort of l-yot). The yo sound is written e in Russian for tedious historical reasons.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:07:54 -0800

Thanks for finding and linking to the guy's livejournal – it annoys me too no end when links to sites like englishrussia.com (where they just scrape Russian forums/LJs and run them through babelfish, then slap google ads all over it) are posted all over the web with no clue as to their origin.

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:35:08 -0800

furtive, I'll disagree and venture that the last link contains the best photos. (Would that Kansas had sights like this.) Thanks, soundofsuburbia!

By: squalor

squalor — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:53:50 -0800

лЁХИН САЙТ??? YзS НЁ САЙ!!!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:19:31 -0800

soundofsuburbia , Wonderful post! Love flying and images of clouds. I enjoy the way Letchik Leha (thanks for the pronounciation tip languagehat) manages to depict the immensity of the sky from the plane and that coldly sensual chaos of clouds seen from a high altitude, which makes me want to swim in them somehow or wish I could fly without a plane or any paraphernalia, just fly in and out of those glories. ahhh. The man who did some of the frozen wave images is Dionys Moser. His photographs of iceberg and ice cave visuals are also astonishing. That ThrillingBlogSpot is always packed with visual goodies of all kinds and textures. But, yeah, blasdelf is right about englishrussia and other sites that collect gems from the web not giving credit where credit is due.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:43:03 -0800

mediareport, frozen waves are fantastic!

By: mr. strange

mr. strange — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:35:17 -0800

This one is awesome.