There is still another week before the Atlantic City show... Out of boredom I am posting some shots taken at the Air Force Museum in Dayton from July. The collection is just unbelievable.
I have been traveling around Central Texas taking preseason football practice photos along with feature shots of some players. While I enjoy it, traveling around from 7am until 6pm can be tiring..a weaker man might say!!
I guess these guys are getting to know me. Temple football had their photo day today so the editor sent me over to get some feature shots of offensive and defensive players. While I was waiting on the rest of the crew, these guys were yuking it up taking selfies, etc. I asked if they wanted me to take some shots of them and they jumped. The guy on the left, Natean Mitchell has been recruited by 5 or 7 Division I colleges, I will be interested to see where he goes. The guy in the middle is a very articulate young man who will talk your ear off, but still fun to listen to. This large school has a family culture. The band warmed up on the track, then took the field to practice. Taurean York, the middle guy, saw them walking onto the field then went over to them to tell them the football team loves the band.
Douglas L wrote:
There is still another week before the Atlantic City show... Out of boredom I am posting some shots taken at the Air Force Museum in Dayton from July. The collection is just unbelievable.
No, this is a project my pool designer/builder has me on, it's a million dollar /12 month job and that number is just for the pool, landscape, and other details are on top of that. My guess is that this project will top out around 1.3 million and the end client is toying with adding a 6,000 square foot guest home off to the side of the property, accessed by an underground tunnel. The property sits right in the middle of Dallas' most expensive dirt. I'm headed back today to document the old pool removal, before the excavation is filled in. I'll be shooting it a couple of times a week throughout the course of the build.
Bill Gass wrote:
New pool for you Jim ?
Can't believe what they cost nowadays compared to the 80's and 90's.
Six hundred bucks for 22GB hard drive is pretty good.
I am buying 18TB drives through my OWC distributorship for a little over $300 so I'm going to stick with those until the larger drives drop a bit. I've kind of gotten into the habit of buying an 18TB drive each month and then when I have accumulated 8 of them, I buy an OWC Thunderbay 8 enclosure and add it to my data center. Currently I'm running four Thunderbay 8 arrays, two Thunderbay 5's and four Thunderbay 4 units. I'm a month away from adding an additional Thunderbay 8 rig. This system lets me gradually migrate to newer/larger drives and keep multiple back ups at the same time. When I add the newest Thunderbay 8 I plan on putting it at the hangar office just so I have a complete back up at a second site.
I'm going to go back to the Apple store and hook up this new MBPro to the 27" Studio Monitor just to see if the flicker problem goes away, if it does, then I can put one of those at HQ and one here at home and just plug the new MBPro into each of them when I'm at those locations. That would save me from having to buy additional computers and also simplify Adobe and plug in subscriptions because I will have everything set up on one computer, really hoping that plan works like I think it will. They are supposed to have wifi, real in ground wifi, installed at the hangar complex by sometime in August. We've tried all kinds of wifi out there and nothing has worked very well. I quit using my phone as a hotspot because the second you log in, whatever is in folders on the desktop at HQ gets transferred to my computers at home and vice versa, then I get a $400 bill for data usage, learned that lesson in a hurry!
No, this is a project my pool designer/builder has me on, it's a million dollar /12 month job and that number is just for the pool, landscape, and other details are on top of that. My guess is that this project will top out around 1.3 million and the end client is toying with adding a 6,000 square foot guest home off to the side of the property, accessed by an underground tunnel. The property sits right in the middle of Dallas' most expensive dirt. I'm headed back today to document the old pool removal, before the excavation is filled in. I'll be shooting it a couple of times a week throughout the course of the build....Show more →
Wow...That is quite the build, especially with the tunnel and all. 6000 sq' guest house !!! Dam!!!
My house is 400sq' -- Bet you'll get some neat pictures a long the way.
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I also can imagine you have a room just dedicated to rack space for all those hard drives.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I'm going to go back to the Apple store and hook up this new MBPro to the 27" Studio Monitor just to see if the flicker problem goes away, if it does, then I can put one of those at HQ and one here at home and just plug the new MBPro into each of them when I'm at those locations. That would save me from having to buy additional computers and also simplify Adobe and plug in subscriptions because I will have everything set up on one computer, really hoping that plan works like I think it will. They are supposed to have wifi, real in ground wifi, installed at the hangar complex by sometime in August. We've tried all kinds of wifi out there and nothing has worked very well. I quit using my phone as a hotspot because the second you log in, whatever is in folders on the desktop at HQ gets transferred to my computers at home and vice versa, then I get a $400 bill for data usage, learned that lesson in a hurry!...Show more →
Heck, you're in a big metal building; it would be a wonder if WiFi would work! If would probably be easier to turn your hanger into a SCIF than to get good WiFi
It's not too bad with the door up, but when the door is down nothing gets through. A couple of guys did satellite, but they aren't happy, a few more did something bouncing off a nearby tower and it is worthless.
I must say that modern cameras are certainly a network challenge though. I keep my off-site back-ups (not just pictures) in AWS S3 storage and those D850 images take their own sweet time getting there and that's not on wireless even. I don't even move images on WiFi inside the house (yes, I'm too impatient but then I haven't upgraded to WiFi 6 yet).
A new client just walked in the door, oddly enough in today's environment a fracking venture. They need drone, stills, dusk/dawn, dramatic shots for ongoing presentations and I'm pumped...............no pun intended...............
JWilsonphoto wrote:
It's not too bad with the door up, but when the door is down nothing gets through. A couple of guys did satellite, but they aren't happy, a few more did something bouncing off a nearby tower and it is worthless.
Looks like something called : cage of faraday look it up..
- Bet you'll get some neat pictures a long the way.
