A Stratospheric Photo

American Albert W. Stevens, born in 1886, was not only a pioneer of aviation and high-altitude ballooning, but also an accomplished aerial photographer.

Albert William Stevens (Belfast Historical Society and Museum). I colorized the image, of course 😉.

Stevens graduated from the University of Maine in 1907 with a degree in electrical engineering, and soon after enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service. The year was 1918, the end of World War I. It was then that he began to apply his passion for photography to aerial…