Enduring the Hard Life
This gallery was inspired by a challenge on DP review.com to photograph people whose lives are tough every day & in every way. People who are able to survive without having their spirits crushed. The shots are derived from my collection of scanned images during my world travels as a part of my NASA environmental work. Some appear in other galleries here in this collection/
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Scientia-Photos
on November 17, 2013EXUBERANCE ! In 1999 we finally began the installation of a satellite receiving station in Yakutsk ... very far North and very far East. This young man was a friend of my primary collaborator, Yevgeny. The day we brought the computers up, we had a grand celbratory dinner at Yevgeny's and his friend was showing off for us. The setting is the area around the Hydromet office (the equivalent of the US Weather Bureau). The average January daytime high temperature in Yakutsk is -31 degrees F (-35 C) and houses slowly sink into the permafrost over the years.