Philip Grossman Productions

Philip Grossman Productions Philip Grossman specializes in professional photography and video. / www.philipgrossman.com / Contac Cinematographer. Director of Photography. Camera Geek.

Computer Geek. Engineer. Documentarian. Television Host.

Coming soon, MediaReconISR, a truly affordable AutoQC tool for media professionals
08/12/2026

Coming soon, MediaReconISR, a truly affordable AutoQC tool for media professionals

Had a great weekend helping my friend Ryan on his documentary "Mouth of the Monster" about the Northern Snakehead fish....
08/03/2026

Had a great weekend helping my friend Ryan on his documentary "Mouth of the Monster" about the Northern Snakehead fish. Had a fun time on the set. And always powered by Blueshape Energy insidÆŽ

A United States Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle from the Louisiana Air National Guard (tail code JZ) flies low in...
07/23/2026

A United States Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle from the Louisiana Air National Guard (tail code JZ) flies low in the midground as it climbs after takeoff. In the foreground, multiple General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons belonging to the USAF Thunderbirds demonstration team sit parked on the tarmac with open canopies and ground crew nearby. The background features a tree line under a partially cloudy blue sky during the Wings Over North Georgia airshow.

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Want to see what my TelemetryISR Lightroom Plug in can see in a photo? This is the description my app generated for the...
07/22/2026

Want to see what my TelemetryISR Lightroom Plug in can see in a photo? This is the description my app generated for the attached photo. This was a fully automated process and cost $0.03. I also show you the specific TelemetryISR custom meta data I add to lightroom

"An F-15 Eagle fighter jet climbs away from the runway with its twin afterburners brightly illuminated. In the foreground, two United States Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 Fighting Falcon jets are parked on the tarmac with their canopies open. Ground support equipment, including a yellow generator unit, is positioned near the aircraft. The scene is captured under an overcast sky during the Wings Over North Georgia airshow in Rome, Georgia."

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’m excited to announce that TelemetryISR is now available on the Mac App Store. Built through ISRForge and shaped by my ...
07/06/2026

’m excited to announce that TelemetryISR is now available on the Mac App Store. Built through ISRForge and shaped by my own work in photography, field production, and post workflows, TelemetryISR helps photographers review, organize, and enrich image metadata with a practical, Lightroom-first approach. It’s designed for people who need clearer captions, keywords, GPS context, and AI-assisted review without losing control of their files or workflow. This is the first public release, and I’m proud to finally share it.

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Its Official!!!My app was accepted after review. I am amazed that they did not require any changes. I have to finish s...
06/26/2026

Its Official!!!

My app was accepted after review. I am amazed that they did not require any changes. I have to finish some marketing stuff then make it live on the Apple Store.

The containment of the Chernobyl disaster relied heavily on the mobilization of Soviet rotary-wing assets. The operation...
04/27/2026

The containment of the Chernobyl disaster relied heavily on the mobilization of Soviet rotary-wing assets. The operation utilized Mi-6, Mi-8, and heavy-lift Mi-26 helicopters to execute precision drops over the destroyed Unit 4 reactor.

The engineering objective was to halt the graphite fire and suppress the release of fission products. Crews dropped over 5,000 tonnes of boron, lead, sand, clay, and dolomite into the exposed core.

The operational environment was exceptionally severe. At 200 meters above the reactor, extreme thermal heat altered helicopter aerodynamics, making target acquisition difficult. Dose rates in the updraft exceeded 1,000 roentgens per hour. Initial operations required hovering directly over the shaft, but due to lethal exposure rates, flight patterns were altered to drop payloads during forward flight or via a continuous "carousel" formation.

These helicopters were also repurposed for large-scale decontamination, spraying polymer adhesives over the facility to lock down radioactive particulates.

The structural surfaces and engines of these aircraft became heavily irradiated. They were subsequently decommissioned and deposited at the Rassokha vehicle graveyard.
The images below were captured during my documentation of the zone in 2011. Due to ongoing remediation and unauthorized metal salvaging, these airframes were entirely removed and destroyed by 2013. The physical history of the airborne response no longer exists.

04/27/2026

To conclude this 40th-anniversary documentation, we must look at the macroscopic result of the disaster. This continuous drone flight, captured in 2015, traverses the entire abandoned city of Pripyat from west to east.

Below the dense forest canopy sits the brutalist infrastructure of a city built to house 50,000 nuclear personnel and their families. It was emptied in a matter of hours on April 27, 1986. The visual data here demonstrates the rapid reclamation of the urban environment by the biosphere. The concrete is failing.

In the distance, the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant remains visible on the horizon—a permanent monument to the cost of operational and systemic engineering failure. Archiving this scale is essential before the infrastructure fully collapses.

History degrades if it is not archived. Over the last decade, I have spent more than 180 days on the ground inside the C...
04/26/2026

History degrades if it is not archived. Over the last decade, I have spent more than 180 days on the ground inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The objective has been to build a comprehensive, high-resolution database of the engineering, architecture, and human toll of the 1986 disaster.

The documentation process is heavily constrained by the environment. Capturing data requires navigating structurally unstable facilities and managing acute radiological exposure. The work involves operating heavy cinema equipment in direct proximity to the reactor, analyzing original schematics in abandoned facilities, and physically documenting the massive scale of the RBMK-1000 reactor blocks.

This footprint of the abandoned city of Pripyat and the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant is slowly collapsing. Archiving the physical evidence and the primary accounts of the liquidators and engineers is critical to our understanding of systemic failure. The data must outlast the concrete.

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