Souls Fly High by ShadowWind

Mixed Medium • Space • posted on Feb 10, 2003

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Dedicated to the crew of the Shuttle Columbia, who's crew gave their lives in the exploration of space. The seven stars represent the seven brave souls. May their souls fly high. I felt bad that I had not done a true tribute picture, but instead just included a blurb in Misfortune Teller's description. I hope this is a much more appropriate tribute. Vue/Painter/Photoshop The nebula was created by hand (without plugins) in Painter. The shuttle and earth were rendered in Vue and the two were composited in Photoshop. The image was then taken back into Painter where the stars and flames were added... Comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking. Credits: Image by ShadowWind Shuttle/Earth from 3DCafe

Comments (27)

lordcrusan

1:03PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Very nice, A great tribute.

miyu

1:05PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Beautiful! Very nice dedication!

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SophiaDeer

1:22PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Beautiful and a wonderful tribute!

groush2

1:39PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Beautifully done and Said !!!

jaideep

2:05PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

A wonderful tribute.

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Zargent

3:42PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Great idea and wonderful gesture. Picture aint bad either :) heh.

ChadAustin

8:23PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Excellent image. Love the colors and composition.

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estevez

9:36PM | Mon, 10 February 2003

Very impressive art work ! Excellent composition as ever ! Congratulations !

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Dragonsbld

12:33PM | Tue, 11 February 2003

Wonderful job shadow, its a fine tribute to those who died on the Columbia

Mikeangelo

3:15PM | Tue, 11 February 2003

Excellent image, and a great tribute. Dave

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che18530

11:13PM | Tue, 11 February 2003

In this day of posturing, it is so very nice to see such a wonderful tribute to the Astronauts of Columbia and to the future of Space Exploration. Much of my teenage years were spent talking with my Dad on the efforts that were being made for the US and for the World. My Dad worked at the Kennedy Space Center as a supervisor of the telemetry department. I love that you placed a star in the Heavens for each Astronaut because they were shining stars. The Heavens (space) have a wonderful etheral feel and your choice of colors are perfect. Excellent detail and I think you have done a masterful job of bring the shuttle into your work on the nebula. It looks very natural there. So many times here, outside images are placed in an existing image being worked on, but there is no blending to make it completely and inexplicably a part of the image...as if it just had to be there. You have done a wonderful work artistically and in Tribute to these 7 men and women.

Kageboshi

4:29PM | Wed, 12 February 2003

I don't think I could put it any better than che...

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lemonjim

6:25PM | Wed, 12 February 2003

fantastic - a great tribute. in my career i have worked with NASA (Intelsat 603 reboost in 1992), and they were excellent. i have great confidence in them and they are very brave, but sometimes your number's up. they need our support all the time but especially now. i think the folks on the ISS would appreciate this pic.

HobbyHopper

3:18AM | Thu, 13 February 2003

Astounding work which dedicated to the crew of the Shuttle Columbia. The space is magnificent! Bravo! Really enjoy your work. :O)

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Infra5

6:32AM | Thu, 13 February 2003

very good job and touching to boot man thisis very cool nice job!!!

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danob

7:09PM | Thu, 13 February 2003

I am in so much agreement with all these comments and share you sentiments my friend!!

dragonmagic59

6:40AM | Fri, 14 February 2003

Oh wow oh wow! What a beautiful tribute to the brave souls who seek to push the limits of mankind. This is stunning Shadow! I think NASA should see this. It would make a great commerative poster or even stamp! I'm sure the ones lost in the tragedy would be honored by your picture!!!!!

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