Last Sunday evening everything came together for the assignment with The 75th Anniversary "Lone Star" F-16. Jeremy, Chandler and I worked for 8 hours getting the images that we had in our collective heads accomplished. Chili and I got home eat 2 am, but it was worth all the effort and planning. We just kept looking at each other all night, laughing at the fact that we had unfettered access to our subject aircraft and a half dozen other Vipers sitting in the hangar. Getting our lighting technique dialed in took us an hour or so and then we were able to rock and roll. Boydo had been up for 36 hours or something and had an 8am departure back to Louisville. I had a 6 am shoot Monday morning, Chandler got to sleep in. Dialing in the lighting was really challenging and fun, especially as we saw our canvas go from ho-hum to Holy Cow! The end product took everything all three of use could muster but it was a great team effort, and based upon early reaction to the untweaked image, we think that other opportunities will be in the offing.
Everyone's schedule is pretty insane this week, and we're bouncing imagery back and forth between us before we roll out the finished product, so more to come........................
I am discovering that the R5 does not play well with my Camranger2, not well at all. I have also found that I don’t really care much for the evf when I’m shooting interiors, it’s not as informative as the optical viewfinder. Well, they are all just different kinds of hammers........
Today I got a glimpse of just how insane the Texas housing market is. My builder clients can't get lumber to build the houses they have contracts on. Lumber is in such short supply that thieves are going around in the middle of the night with big trucks stealing any lumber they can get their hands on. The price of the home I'm shooting currently has gone up 100 grand in the last 90 days. Just one of the negative by products of the mass migration to Texas.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Today I got a glimpse of just how insane the Texas housing market is. My builder clients can't get lumber to build the houses they have contracts on. Lumber is in such short supply that thieves are going around in the middle of the night with big trucks stealing any lumber they can get their hands on. The price of the home I'm shooting currently has gone up 100 grand in the last 90 days. Just one of the negative by products of the mass migration to Texas.
Jim, I read from somewhere few days ago that the lumber cost has gone up $25000 per house on average nationwide. I hope the folks who are escaping from wherever are not bringing the bad stuff that they are escaping from into the great state of Texas!
Douglas L wrote:
Jim, I read from somewhere few days ago that the lumber cost has gone up $25000 per house on average nationwide. I hope the folks who are escaping from wherever are not bringing the bad stuff that they are escaping from into the great state of Texas!
I just bought a 4x8 sheet of 3/4" treated plywood at $70 a sheet from Home Depot!!!! The prices are totally outrageous!
It's a "mad, mad world"!!!
Dan
So, I'm on the 10th floor balcony of our Condo unit, I hear this ROAR overhead. AHA, how good is the rental R6 I have? Or better, how incompetent am I as an aviation photog. I'm at 163' GPS altitude. Any of you all know what these Marines are doing? What the equipment is that is attached beneath the hatchway on the port side? (Sadly, a quick grab and I was in A+ mode. Grrrrrr. In any case, they are probably 500' vertical and 300 yards horizontally and easterly from the Philly Art Museum (based on my Laser rangefinder distance - don't ask me why I have that metric ).
We have determined that it isn't a great time to hang one's hat on being able to build homes, so our strategy on the acreage has changed to selling it to an eager buyer and doubling our investment. A little disappointing.......but then again not too......
My son and three of his fellow aviators just bought an age-old barn, a cotton pickin’ BARN. Brought in a crane of some sort, “back hoe”?, and tore it down for the lumber. They are now investing in a planar (?). He’s mute on what it’s all about. Perhaps I know now.
He likely bought a "planer", (unless he bought a Hasselblad lens My guess is they will resurface the antique barn wood with the planer and sell it for a wonderful profit. Most likely it will end up in someone's family room creating a gorgeous atmosphere. Don't you just love Capitalism?!
Chandler and I just got back from a couple of hours of Cub flying into the evening and then dinner. The landscape is was green as The Emerald Isle and the light was incredible. Chandler has flight in his soul, he "gets it".
Jim, speaking of "flight in his soul," my very dearest colleague in arms, a now retired State Trooper after 22 years of service, and a USMC Vietnam combat veteran, sent this documentary film to me. I thought it of service in honor of all those who have served, so many of whom never came home again, to share the link here. "S/F, Mustangs... first one's on me when I get through the Gates."
Wonderful Tony! Thank you for sharing it!! Chris Woods work is incredible. I've been blessed to spend a little time with "February"........................
I like that yeah happy Birthday Erich
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