My name is Oliver - Retro among friends - and from my point of view the world started existing on November 9th 1971, I have the honor of being a citizen in the Kingdom of Denmark and I've lived most of my life in the royal capital of Copenhagen. I've had many jobs over the years; from serving in the King's Own Artillery Regiment at the end of the Cold War to dance club security at the beginning of the 21st century, but 5-years apprenticeship in the late 90's means that I can call myself photographer. I've never really liked labels, but I needed something to put on my business card so today I call myself "Independent Photographer/3D Artist/Freelance Writer" but the truth is that I see myself more as an observer who use photography, 3D art and short stories to present the rest of the world to my vision of it. FAVORITE QUOTES: A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn, that was fun!!!" I reject your reality and substitute my own Adam Mythbuster Never have so few been commanded by so many Major-General Maxwell Taylor, 82nd Airborne Division Normandy, June 6th 1944 If those primates we come from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool they would have stayed up in the trees and written off evolution as a bad idea Captain John Sheridan Commanding Babylon 5
"It has been said that science-fiction and fantasy are two different things: science-fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable."
-Rod Serling - The Twilight Zone
" Now, if this was a science fiction movie, this is the part where the brilliant boy genius that everybody has been ignoring up to this point, pipes up and tells the balding Captain that by cross linking the Warp Core, the Impulse engine and a reverse framistat, then dividing the warp field lattice by the square root of last Tuesday, he can get them all home."
"Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it."
Comments (6)
Briney
You know what they say about Omelettes... ;-) This actually IS ROCKET SCIENCE....! I don't suppose anyone succeeded in actually catching an Me163 in the viewfinder very often. Did they have gun-cameras I wonder? Would make quite a rollercoaster ride!
Palaemon
Excellent work !
preeder
Nicely done once again.
steelrazer
I always had the impression that flying the comet was a gamble...like, it got shot up into the air by rocket power...attained and sustained stable flight precariously...tried to do it's mission in maybe one pass, and then attempted to get back on the ground in something short of a fiery ball of flame. Not for the weak kneed! Nice render!!
London224
I had a friend who served in WWII and one day looking thru his unit scrapbook I saw a cartoon from the period of two pilots looking at each other in their twin boom aircraft... I think it was a lightening.. just as a 163 flew up between the double fuselage. This was back in the late 60s and I thought it was amusing how they looked at this strange craft.
neiwil
Funny how today we can see this as comical, quirky and strange...in 1944 it must have been bloody terrifying....thanks for this, a great image..