Ran a test with the R5c yesterday, it will record 8K RAW@60P for 68 minutes on one LP battery. Pretty amazing. I'm waiting for the Small Rig cage and a Ninja V+ to arrive to real deck it out and put it through it's paces.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I'm still glad that I did it, but this is what happens when you farm projects out. The roofing guys did not follow my direction and they built the soffits and ladders the way they were used to building them. When I got there this morning I realized that I was going to have to redesign the way I planned on finishing that whole area out. That little detour took me all day so I'll be back at it tomorrow finishing the soffits and working on the trim. Faith picked out her final color choices, they are a bit more traditional than the pink/white choice, a Benjamin Moore Gray/Blue with white trim, very tasteful, it's primed at the moment..........................Show more →
Many thanks to all for your kind comments and taking the time to “vote” - Much appreciated!
The beach / castle pic is a good example of the advances made with photo editing software. The image was taken 10 years ago with a 5D mk1 – that's 12megapixels. The colour image I posted has a little of the B&W version blended in as a luminosity blend. As it is I will need to use the B&W version if I put it in for a competition since “we” are supposed to produce “art” ….. oh well.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thank you Ray! I was initially planning on Hardie Plank siding all around, including the trim, but "cost over runs" brought me to LP siding and tongue in groove pine for the soffits. I did my office at the hangar in Hardie products and have loved them. Building this project for Faith and Halle has gotten me thinking about finishing the second floor at HQ. I have some cool ideas for the room, like a stone veneer wall and dramatic lighting, along with recessed display cases for some of my aviation memorabilia collections.
“Stone veneer wall” you say? A result! My castle and stone wall landscapes indoctrination worked! Job Jobbed!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I'm still glad that I did it, but this is what happens when you farm projects out. The roofing guys did not follow my direction and they built the soffits and ladders the way they were used to building them. When I got there this morning I realized that I was going to have to redesign the way I planned on finishing that whole area out. That little detour took me all day so I'll be back at it tomorrow finishing the soffits and working on the trim. Faith picked out her final color choices, they are a bit more traditional than the pink/white choice, a Benjamin Moore Gray/Blue with white trim, very tasteful, it's primed at the moment..........................Show more →
That Sir, is some “Shed”. Am I the only one who is just a little bit disappointed that the pink got the elbow?
Yesterday was brutal. Got most of the soffits finished and a lot of trim, but it was against winds gusting to 50. My ladders were blowing over, sheets of 3/4" decking were taking flight, it was absurd. Today is supposed to be about the same so I'm holding off.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Yesterday was brutal. Got most of the soffits finished and a lot of trim, but it was against winds gusting to 50. My ladders were blowing over, sheets of 3/4" decking were taking flight, it was absurd. Today is supposed to be about the same so I'm holding off.
👍 Same here Jim. We had gust over 40 mph with 20+ mph steady so I was wondering if you had the day off yesterday.
I've been running since my eyes opened this morning. Apparently Addison Airport is closing for a week to do runway repairs and people are in a panic. I've squeezed three Cirrus airplanes into our hangars for a week, I'm hanging them from the ceilings!
A Buddy of mine just bought this hangar in East Texas. He bought it lock, stock and barrel. I'm going to help him re-light it for drama, but it's pretty cool as is! I could see The Vette languishing in this setting.................
JWilsonphoto wrote:
A Buddy of mine just bought this hangar in East Texas. He bought it lock, stock and barrel. I'm going to help him re-light it for drama, but it's pretty cool as is! I could see The Vette languishing in this setting.................
I'll take the Judge!😀
That is a cool hangar, could use a few more airplanes, but still cool!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I've been running since my eyes opened this morning. Apparently Addison Airport is closing for a week to do runway repairs and people are in a panic. I've squeezed three Cirrus airplanes into our hangars for a week, I'm hanging them from the ceilings!
So they got a ˝ days notice or what so maybe a couple of dollars for you in the light of the new camera gear
Well... My short trip to Florida was semi productive. In terms of birding, I got some decent shots of ospreys, roseate spoonbills, burrowing owls, etc, so that was the good part. The disappointing part was, the SpaceX launch we wanted to see got postponed again from April 6th to the 9th. It was pushed back several times already before we arrived in Florida on April 3rd. We didn't want to wait any longer, thinking even launching on the 9th wouldn't be a sure thing. So we left Florida and went home. Low and behold, the launch was on yesterday. I bought two viewing tickets for the best location for $540 several weeks ago, sold them for $200 to someone from Belgium, my way of trading stocks. Lesson learned, never buy another rocket launch viewing ticket again. They are not refundable. Unless you live locally, the chance is pretty high that the schedule may change.
I may drive down to the Kennedy Space Center in June when they have a firm date of the Artemis 1 launch. That will be a BIG deal.
On a side note, the airshow at Dover AFB in May not only added the Blue Angels to the lineup to join the Thunderbirds, on Saturday they will also have a B-2 flyby. I will be there, may say hello to uncle Joe.
Douglas L wrote:
Well... My short trip to Florida was semi productive. In terms of birding, I got some decent shots of ospreys, roseate spoonbills, burrowing owls, etc, so that was the good part. The disappointing part was, the SpaceX launch we wanted to see got postponed again from April 6th to the 9th. It was pushed back several times already before we arrived in Florida on April 3rd. We didn't want to wait any longer, thinking even launching on the 9th wouldn't be a sure thing. So we left Florida and went home. Low and behold, the launch was on yesterday. I bought two viewing tickets for the best location for $540 several weeks ago, sold them for $200 to someone from Belgium, my way of trading stocks. Lesson learned, never buy another rocket launch viewing ticket again. They are not refundable. Unless you live locally, the chance is pretty high that the schedule may change.
I may drive down to the Kennedy Space Center in June when they have a firm date of the Artemis 1 launch. That will be a BIG deal.
On a side note, the airshow at Dover AFB in May not only added the Blue Angels to the lineup to join the Thunderbirds, on Saturday they will also have a B-2 flyby. I will be there, may say hello to uncle Joe....Show more →
We got an invitation to a shuttle launch. (The pilot's (John Casper) wife worked with my wife.). We got the VIP tour, reception and VIP seating by the countdown clock for the launch. We arrived hoping the shuttle would launch on time so we could take the kids to Disney World (back when it was a non-political organization). The Commander got sick, and they told us to call every day around 2pm for a launch window. This was a military flight, so they would give us a four hour window, not a specific launch time. We extended our stay hoping to see the launch and spending a few more days in Orlando. They finally got the date set so we traveled from Orlando to the Cape to board the bus to the launch site. The countdown went all they way down to 7 seconds and stopped. Apparently some USAF guy loaded the wrong software for the down range tracking. Since the APUs had been fired it would be another 48 hours before the next launch. We finally watched the launch from our living room.
At the time I was working for Boeing as the quality engineer for the new crew escape suit NASA incorporated into the program after Challenger. It was neat popping in on John Casper when they were fitting him for his suit. The crew escape suit was very similar to the suit used by the SR-71 Blackbird aircrew, thus most of our technicians came from that program as it was being shut down. There were always issues with these guys coming from USAF to NASA. When you find a problem with flight equipment in the USAF you use the tech order manual to fix the problem. At NASA, you had to get a project engineer to write a procedure to tell them to follow the repair instructions. Yeah, more red tape! Having been in maintenance in the USAF and the NASA system, I felt their pain.
No they had plenty of notice and didn’t pay attention. And yes, accommodations are running about 100 bucks a day. Jan-Arie wrote:
So they got a ˝ days notice or what so maybe a couple of dollars for you in the light of the new camera gear
Ray Swindle wrote:
We got an invitation to a shuttle launch. (The pilot's (John Casper) wife worked with my wife.). We got the VIP tour, reception and VIP seating by the countdown clock for the launch. We arrived hoping the shuttle would launch on time so we could take the kids to Disney World (back when it was a non-political organization). The Commander got sick, and they told us to call every day around 2pm for a launch window. This was a military flight, so they would give us a four hour window, not a specific launch time. We extended our stay hoping to see the launch and spending a few more days in Orlando. They finally got the date set so we traveled from Orlando to the Cape to board the bus to the launch site. The countdown went all they way down to 7 seconds and stopped. Apparently some USAF guy loaded the wrong software for the down range tracking. Since the APUs had been fired it would be another 48 hours before the next launch. We finally watched the launch from our living room.
At the time I was working for Boeing as the quality engineer for the new crew escape suit NASA incorporated into the program after Challenger. It was neat popping in on John Casper when they were fitting him for his suit. The crew escape suit was very similar to the suit used by the SR-71 Blackbird aircrew, thus most of our technicians came from that program as it was being shut down. There were always issues with these guys coming from USAF to NASA. When you find a problem with flight equipment in the USAF you use the tech order manual to fix the problem. At NASA, you had to get a project engineer to write a procedure to tell them to follow the repair instructions. Yeah, more red tape! Having been in maintenance in the USAF and the NASA system, I felt their pain.
Very interesting, Ray! I am not faulting NASA or SpaceX for changing the launch date multiple times. Safety comes first, of course. The timing just didn't work out for us. I am looking forward to seeing the big rocket launch in June in Florida.
In the meantime, Next month for me there will be the Dover AFB show (TB, BA, B-2 and others), Jones Beach (NY) show (BA, F-22, F-35 and others), and the BA show at the Naval Academy in my neck of the woods. Can't wait!
