JWilsonphoto wrote:
A client of mine manufactures the world's premiere examples of animatronic dinosaurs and creatures of all kinds. Their headquarters is being built right here in Allen, Texas. "The Dinosaur People" create and ship their products worldwide to museums, the BBC, film production companies and others. Great folks with a wonderful story of family ingenuity and an entreprenuering spirit leading to great success. This facility is going to be a beautiful architectural work that will be lots of fun to photograph once it's complete. From a personal standpoint this project has blessed me with multiple new clients, constructors, architects, sub-contractors and manufacturers....Show more →
Jim, do the architects ever give you renderings of video of the finished site? It'd be kinda cool to get as close as you can to those views with your drones and then blend between the two from in progress to finished.
Yes, sometimes they do, and that would be cool. They initially asked for a time lapse set up, but the quote for those, single camera, run around $14K, so they decided to have me do monthly aerials and some drone work. I'd rather do that because the time lapse requires about $7K out of my pocket from the get go and a slow ROI. Beside the fact that I have to make as much as I can with my drones before the Feds bat them out of they sky.....
I haven't gotten into it because it would just be a Black Hole time wise, but numerous clients turn my video over to guys who do 3D rendering of future projects. That's a pricey service, but can be pretty effective. I looked at it but I have to draw the line somewhere, beginning to realize that there isn't enough time to do it all.................wait........did I say that in my outside voice.......?
I had an interesting assignment this week. A good friend who is a very successful financial broker started a business a couple of years ago. He was looking at "Big Ass Fans" tm , for his hangar and barns. The models he wanted were $8K each and didn't move enough air to suite his needs, so he set out to design his own. Lo and behold, he built such a great fan that people started ordering them from him, no the makes a dozen different models, ceiling, floor models, replicas of western wind mills, and he can't make them fast enough. He bought 45 acres up in the area where Jennifer and the kids have their little ranch and barn and that's where he makes the fans and ships them from. Now he gets up in the morning and walks down a beautiful tree lined drive to his manufacturing facility, serenaded by horses whinnying, cattle mooing and birds chirping, not a bad way to go. He'll sell 4,000 fans this year from his little spot in the country.
He asked me up for a brainstorming session a week or so ago and I told him we'd just create a studio right where he builds his fans and shoot 'em up, so we did!
Did you hit the 100,000 post? If I count back 6 posts, (now 7 posts with this one) it would appear you get the prize! I think Jim Wilson was offering unlimited hops in the Cub for the 100K post.........
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I had an interesting assignment this week. A good friend who is a very successful financial broker started a business a couple of years ago. He was looking at "Big Ass Fans" tm , for his hangar and barns. The models he wanted were $8K each and didn't move enough air to suite his needs, so he set out to design his own. Lo and behold, he built such a great fan that people started ordering them from him, no the makes a dozen different models, ceiling, floor models, replicas of western wind mills, and he can't make them fast enough. He bought 45 acres up in the area where Jennifer and the kids have their little ranch and barn and that's where he makes the fans and ships them from. Now he gets up in the morning and walks down a beautiful tree lined drive to his manufacturing facility, serenaded by horses whinnying, cattle mooing and birds chirping, not a bad way to go. He'll sell 4,000 fans this year from his little spot in the country.
He asked me up for a brainstorming session a week or so ago and I told him we'd just create a studio right where he builds his fans and shoot 'em up, so we did!...Show more →
I am so disappointed ….. Because I have the attention span of an ant I just forgot about the text and went direct to the visuals. Got pumped to see one of the eight (?) lifters on your new drone. Oh yes I thought – Pops ain't messing about now – 8x10 view camera under a drone – cool! Now you tell me it’s a ventilation fan …. yes I’m disappointed.
alawadhi wrote:
Well you know the Corona virus everybody is going crazy around here clearing out the supermarket etc you aren't aloud to do anything but you can go to work Crazy world but as long as the good old internet keeps working. we will prevail.... Have a good weekend all.
I met this young gentleman last week during my assignment, Clay Biglow, the world's number 1 Bare Back rider. Every time I am around rodeo performers/fans, I'm reminded what quality people they are. Across the board they are the most respectful, hard working quality people one could ever hope to meet.
Jan-Arie wrote:
If we disappear from mother earth it was a pleasure knowing you all (Covid 19) looks like conus is going in tot lock down...
Be careful but not fearful, that's my motto for this virus thing.
I went to see the sunrise yesterday morning. Holy sh%t! The sun still rises! I knew it was highly unlikely I would see more than one person there. It turned out that the only living thing there besides me was my dog. I almost hit a deer on my way to the water front though. Then I went to the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC to see the magnolias and cherry blossoms. I knew even under normal circumstances the enormous Capitol Hill's ground is quiet on early weekend mornings. I did see a few souls, at least 10' from me. I will avoid going to places with crowds though.
