After American U-2 Spy plane nicknamed “Dragon Lady” was shot down by the Soviet Union during its reconnaissance mission in 1960, the CIA intended to improve a reconnaissance aircraft and make it really fast.
So, this story is about the Lockheed D-21 a.k.a. “Project Tagboard.”

What was the mission of the D-21? It was a spy plane with the capability of speeds over Mach 3. Equally impressive, considering that development began in 1962, the D-21 is not piloted…it’s a drone.

The concept was to carry a single high-resolution photographic camera over a preprogrammed path, then release the camera module into the air for retrieval, after which the drone would self-destruct.

The D-21 was launched from a variant of the SR-71 Blackbird called the “M-12” (D- for “daughter” and M- for “mother”).

Four operational missions with the D-21B took place under the codename of “Senior Bowl”. These were conducted over the People’s Republic of China from November of 1969 to March of 1971, to spy on the “Lop Nor” nuclear test site.

The Chinese never spotted the D-21B. The first mission failed to turn around and continued straight on, crashing somewhere in the Soviet Union.

Another test flight was conducted on February 20, 1970 in a successful attempt to correct any problems. The second operational mission, however, was not until December 16, 1970. The D-21B reached Lop Nor and back to the recovery point, but the hatch had a partial parachute failure and was lost at sea with its photographs.

Following the fatal accident when launched from the M-21 Blackbird, the D-21 was modified to be launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.

During the third operational mission, on March 4th 1971, the D-21B flew to Lop Nor and returned. This time its parachute deployed but the mid-air recovery team failed to reach the photos before they sank again.

The fourth, and last, operational flight of the D-21B was on 20 March 1971. It was lost over China on the final segment of the route over China’s Yunnan province.

Unfortunately the wreckage was found by China’s local authorities. In 2010, after being in the junkyard of China Aviation Museum for years, the wreckage was moved to the exhibition area.

On July 23, 1971 the D-21B program was canceled due to its poor success rate.
That’s what was attached to the SR-71 Blackbird.

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Their dedication to the project is impressive and inspiring – Morrow took the photos of Beard just a few weeks before her gastric bypass surgery. After the surgery, it took her 2 years to lose the weight. Once she reached her goal, she was able to step back into the photos and interact with her old self thanks to Photoshop.

Thought digital editing was necessary to combine the new photos with the old, Morrow insists that he didn’t alter her body at all. Her weight loss does the talking for her!

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Simply and compellingly explain health and illness in terms that anyone can understand. Most importantly, they give you a visual map to plan your own optimal Health!

“Always moving, occasionally disquieting, Tsiaras’s visual explorations of the human body are beautiful, compelling, visual stories that show what an amazing thing the body is. He displays them on Oprah, the Discovery Channel, in books and museum exhibits, on the Web – hoping to change how people think about health, and about their bodies.”

“Striking anatomical images…Their purpose: To wow and inform.”

“I am giving Alexander’s book to everyone I know for Christmas.”

“These images capture life and in their association with illness show it at its most mysterious and most vulnerable…A magical anatomy tour.”

“[Tsiaras] reworks data to dazzling effects.”

“A step into medicine’s future.”

“[Alexander Tsiaras] developed this incredible new motion picture of the human body.”

“Stunning, Stunning”

“If there is to be an Audubon of the human form, Tsiaras can make rightful claim to the title.”

“Always moving, occasionally disquieting, Tsiaras’s visual explorations of the human body are beautiful, compelling, visual stories that show what an amazing thing the body is. He displays them on Oprah, the Discovery Channel, in books and museum exhibits, on the Web – hoping to change how people think about health, and about their bodies.”

“Striking anatomical images…Their purpose: To wow and inform.”

“A step into medicine’s future.”

“These images capture life and in their association with illness show it at its most mysterious and most vulnerable…A magical anatomy tour.”

“[Tsiaras] reworks data to dazzling effects.”

“I am giving Alexander’s book to everyone I know for Christmas.”

“[Alexander Tsiaras] developed this incredible new motion picture of the human body.”

“Stunning, Stunning”

“If there is to be an Audubon of the human form, Tsiaras can make rightful claim to the title.”

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Portrait of a Lady by Rogier van der Weyden

Nicole Friedersdorf,a German costume designer aka DarkDirndl – specializes on the reconstruction of historic gowns and dresses – exactly as seen on paintings, sketches or for real in museums or exhibitions. In cooperation with Markus Gath, a quite talented and smart photographer, she started the Resurrection Project: reproducing gowns from paintings as they might have been looked for real

Maria Magdalena (Church of divine Mary, Leipzig)

In cooperation with Markus Gath, a quite talented and smart photographer, Nicole started the Resurrection Project: reproducing gowns from paintings as they might have been looked for real (color, fabric, details, etc.), finding models quite alike to those in the painting and setting them in scene like on the painting.
Young Elizabeth I by unknown artist

Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Melancholia by Lucas Cranach

Lodovico Capponi by Agnolo Bronzino

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American photographer Justin Bettmann is changing the lives of the homeless with his new project. He calls it The Bagel Project and he gives them bagels in exchange for pictures. He then sits with them and listens to their stories and keeps them company. He says the point of his project is to give a voice to the voiceless.

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The only way these girls could get any hotter is if they were wearing nothing at all.

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Build it yourself floating picnic table.

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One Ocean One Breath is a beautiful underwater photo project.

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Interesting photo project.

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Photos from the “Follow Me” project.

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Do you remember Happy Meal Project? 979 days later hamburger and french fries still look almost the same.

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