Thank you Douglas, we are very proud of Hunter, he's as solid as they come. I think the company is Crowe-Horwath. They must be a great company to work for, they send him a gift package every couple of months, with a note telling him how excited they are that he's joining them. Hunter has a bright future in business, but he has a tremendous heart for youth ministry and has been very involved in that since early high school. He formed a special needs youth ministry at A&M that has been a big success.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thank you Douglas, we are very proud of Hunter, he's as solid as they come. I think the company is Crow-Horwath. They must be a great company to work for, they send him a gift package every couple of months, with a note telling him how excited they are that he's joining them. Hunter has a bright future in business, but he has a tremendous heart for youth ministry and has been very involved in that since early high school. He formed a special needs youth ministry at A&M that has been a big success.
Very nice, Jim. My daughter works for Grant Thornton LLP in its Arlington, Virginia office. Grant Thornton is headquartered in Chicago too. She said she is a fan of AOC, I didn't raise her right.
His "h.u.d" shows a bullseye Jim!!! Fast and he overshoots target....Lead and fire!
Any UFO's sighted in Texas?
Texas A&M eh
Had a CO that was a grad of the "Corps". Fine officer and gentleman!
Agri-Business eh?...Fine field to work in! I come from Iowa,.....dirt is black and dirty!
Hope all is well!
RD
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Just got a wonderful new project and five clients in one fell swoop.......................
Jim, Just curious, I assume that was shot with a drone. When using a drone for documenting a construction site, do you have the ability to program (and save) a flight pattern using GPS waypoints, and a set altitude. That would allow all of the "documentary" footage to be consistantly shot from the same locations & altitude. Or, do you just have to review the previous footage, and try to get as close as possible to what was shot before.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Remember, the only cure for "climate change", based on "their" political science, is to eliminate humans, all humans.
Sarcasm aside, I'll take a moment to note that I'm a fierce capitalist and also a strong environmentalist. There is no inherent conflict between safeguarding our environment, realizing that mankind's dirty habits have harmed our planet, and living with freedom. We can have everything we want... we just need to be cleaner about it.
Human-caused climate change is an absolute fact. The fallacy lies in thinking that, to save our ecosystems, we must destroy society. That leads to fear of change and rejection of science and truth, neither of which is a good thing.
We need cleaner energy? Harness the ferocious American spirit of innovation, develop it, make it better, sell it to the world. We get richer AND things get cleaner. Solar and wind are now sometimes cheaper than coal or gas, and electric cars already are. My Tesla's fuel cost is $0.04/mile while my wife's efficient V6 costs $0.20/mile, so I save literally $2,000 in fuel costs for every 10,000 miles driven. Build it, sell it, don't fear it.
We need to generate less trash? Using recycled aluminum to make a soda can requires _one-twentieth_ the energy needed to mine and smelt virgin aluminum. Doing things cleaner can be better, cheaper, and create jobs.
We're all smart people. Let's not fall into the "environmental responsibility is the enemy of a capitalist society" propaganda trap. It's not OR. It's not even AND. It's BETTER if we do both.
kwbarnes wrote:
Jim, Just curious, I assume that was shot with a drone. When using a drone for documenting a construction site, do you have the ability to program (and save) a flight pattern using GPS waypoints, and a set altitude. That would allow all of the "documentary" footage to be consistantly shot from the same locations & altitude. Or, do you just have to review the previous footage, and try to get as close as possible to what was shot before.
Ken, I use a program called Litchi to fly totally autonomous missions repeating all moves including gimbal tilt based on GPS points. I am currently using it on a 14 story 5 star hotel project that just broke ground. The struggle is in the initial setup setup visualizing so your capture will be relevant from start to finish. I’m not big on automated flying but this will provide a solid product a good client. It is a work in progress.
Mike Brewington could answer that question better than I, but here goes. Yes, there are programs that you can use to store and fly exact waypoints. I haven't used any of those up to this point. That would certainly be useful if one wanted to recreate a time-lapse of sorts.
I bought Litchi many moons ago, but I'm with Mike, sending my drone off to fly a mission and hoping all goes well is still a bit of a spooky thing for me, maybe it's just my inexperience with the system. I'm guessing that the next generation of drones will most likely have a bunch of that technology built in, along with ADSB In/Out. I don't think it will be too difficult to replicate the vantage points on that project, but one changes the perspectives each flight because of the different construction phases and what you want to highlight.
Got great news from Cardiologist 2 of 3 yesterday. After extensive repeat monitoring and testing, he suggested I see him in about 18 months for a routine follow up. The monitor I wore for a week last month showed my heart to be perfect and my BP was 129/70 yesterday at his office. I asked him about my upcoming scuba trip to Florida next month and he saw no problem with it. As I was leaving he quipped, "72 huh? Not like any 72 year old I've run across lately........" I'll take that, gratefully.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Got great news from Cardiologist 2 of 3 yesterday. After extensive repeat monitoring and testing, he suggested I see him in about 18 months for a routine follow up. The monitor I wore for a week last month showed my heart to be perfect and my BP was 129/70 yesterday at his office. I asked him about my upcoming scuba trip to Florida next month and he saw no problem with it. As I was leaving he quipped, "72 huh? Not like any 72 year old I've run across lately........" I'll take that, gratefully.
Just had my annual echocardiogram and looks like I might make it to Alliance again this year.
Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
Sarcasm aside, I'll take a moment to note that I'm a fierce capitalist and also a strong environmentalist. There is no inherent conflict between safeguarding our environment, realizing that mankind's dirty habits have harmed our planet, and living with freedom. We can have everything we want... we just need to be cleaner about it.
Human-caused climate change is an absolute fact. The fallacy lies in thinking that, to save our ecosystems, we must destroy society. That leads to fear of change and rejection of science and truth, neither of which is a good thing.
We need cleaner energy? Harness the ferocious American spirit of innovation, develop it, make it better, sell it to the world. We get richer AND things get cleaner. Solar and wind are now sometimes cheaper than coal or gas, and electric cars already are. My Tesla's fuel cost is $0.04/mile while my wife's efficient V6 costs $0.20/mile, so I save literally $2,000 in fuel costs for every 10,000 miles driven. Build it, sell it, don't fear it.
We need to generate less trash? Using recycled aluminum to make a soda can requires _one-twentieth_ the energy needed to mine and smelt virgin aluminum. Doing things cleaner can be better, cheaper, and create jobs.
We're all smart people. Let's not fall into the "environmental responsibility is the enemy of a capitalist society" propaganda trap. It's not OR. It's not even AND. It's BETTER if we do both....Show more →
Did I really read that on this forum? Egads!. Bravo to you.
We are blessed with B-17 "Sentimental Journey" at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona. I am always amazed by the amount of plywood flooring that is in those planes.
