If you think that Anton Shkaplerov And Anatoly Ivanishin do just artistic and news photograpy, you are wrong. They take photographs as part of an experient ‘Uragan’ (to monitor and forecast natural and anthropogenic disasters), ‘Seiner’ (to spot and develop fishing areas of the oceans) and ‘Econ’ (to analyse the impact different industries have on environment).

Сelebrating Catholic Christmas.

Anton Shkaplerov. Experiment ‘Structure’.

Daniel Burbank. Experiment VO2MAX (testing a human’s capacity of work doing physical exercises under microgravitation).

Experiment ‘Kulonovsky kristall’.

The Soyuz TMA-03M approaching the international space station.

Answering questions of pupils of a Japanese school.

Anatoly Ivanishin is weighing himself.

A sandstorm in Mexico.

Cutting hair.

The Soyuz TMA-03M is about to begin docking.

A view from Anton Shkaplerov’s cabin.

Balaklava is Anton Shkaplerov’s homeland.

Daniel Burbank together with the 7th crew member Robonaut.

Playing the guitar in free time.

Anatoly Ivanishin is checking equipment operability.

Patagonia’s glaciers, Chile.

Experiment ‘Plasmida’.

Changing the water tank.

And here’s how they make wonderful space photos.

via roscosmos.ru