Some really nice shots in that video Jim, especially the sunset shots...Beautiful.
My only nit pick is the nice fitting sitting in the dirty gravel.
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I love solar, wind and hydro energy. I knew a rancher back in the 80’s that had a little hydro plant over half mile away from his ranch that was 12 miles either way to towns. He moved up here with another rancher back in the 50/60’s and that ranch is still going. Was always impressed with that. We make several parts and brackets for solar companies right now but not as much as 10/15 years ago and solar is still not all that cheap. Can’t beat a little solar panel for backpacking tho or trickle chargers for the boat and camp trailer. That F-35 is burning some fossils.
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Now time for a dip in that pool ( with some solar heat ) and get us some burgers please.!
On the subject of things lying in the dust, that's all there is in West Texas, on the ground, in the air, dust.A calm day in Plains Texas has winds gusting to 20. When I captured the dawn images it was eerily still, 30 minutes later I got out of my car to fill it up on the way back to Lubbock and it was 30G45 "some higher". Glad I got my drone shots in the day before when it was just 25. I may have to resort to the Inspire 2 on some days out there, but I hate to subject it to that dusty environment.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Shaping up day by day...................
We went from 80-90's into freeze warnings within 24 hours Jim!
Lookin' good...will be feelin good soon.
RD
Jan-Arie wrote:
Evening Ray appreciate this I'm ok for 85% we don't have any more shows in the Netherlands due to the famous nitrogen crisis.
So we have to go abroad to see something fly I laugh, but this are some sad time's we are living in.
I'm working full time in a new function, same boss so that take's up a lot of my time but put's food on the table.
The things I have lined up so far are maybe a big flying exercise in June not confirmed yet.
The International Air Tattoo in the UK that's confirmed.
And maybe the Reno Air Races combined with a small trip that is a organised trip not yet confirmed.
Still tinkering with my house but it's slow pace tried to look at some contactors but the current labour prices are somewhat ridicules over here so that's a no no.
And a little bit taking care of my mom, just finished a almost two hour phone call with Morgan Stanley's helpdesk in the US getting help retrieving her company shares that she had accumulated while she still was working back in the day.
She's turning 78 this year.
She's never ever logged in once after she got the shares I didn't know that much about it so the capable staff helped me and mom get her stuff back after some secured transfers of govt id and some other things.
Have to ask my mom's advisor what to do next because the share's have to go, I think there were some questions from the Dutch IRS so will see were that goes.
As for photo's still have some but they have to trough editing yet. Also have to find a slide light box to view some slide's I have found after clearing the attic they are from my late father when he was in the Dutch Airforce he served in Fort Bliss Texas training as a HiPr radar operator.
Noting more to report everybody get well soon for those who are on the mend and enjoy the weekend..
JA,
I have one that you are welcome to. I haven't used in in 30 years or more.
I don't know what the postage is but if you want it, its yours. And I believe I have extra bulbs for it also.
The prices here are astronomical!!!! What cost $25 last summer, plants, are $50 this year!!! Eggs $9 a dozen and Maryland is a huge poultry and egg producing state.
Glad you are feeling better and rising the corporate ladder!
Stay safe!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
We went from 80-90's into freeze warnings within 24 hours Jim!
Lookin' good...will be feelin good soon.
RD
Same here Dan,
Low 30'last week to 90's this week and then back to the 50/60's next week, weather is all over the place.
I think spring is definitely in the air finally, boy we've had a lot of rain as well and very needed.
Had to mow the lawn 3x now.
The wind has been crazy this year as well, seems like it's always blowing.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
On the subject of things lying in the dust, that's all there is in West Texas, on the ground, in the air, dust.A calm day in Plains Texas has winds gusting to 20. When I captured the dawn images it was eerily still, 30 minutes later I got out of my car to fill it up on the way back to Lubbock and it was 30G45 "some higher". Glad I got my drone shots in the day before when it was just 25. I may have to resort to the Inspire 2 on some days out there, but I hate to subject it to that dusty environment. ...Show more →
Jim,
The Weather Channel show a satellite image of a dust storm in Texas. A huge haboob!
Hope that beautiful pool has a cover.
Stay safe!
You and JIII feelin' any better?
RD
Bill Gass wrote:
Same here Dan,
Low 30'last week to 90's this week and then back to the 50/60's next week, weather is all over the place.
I think spring is definitely in the air finally, boy we've had a lot of rain as well and very needed.
Had to mow the lawn 3x now.
The wind has been crazy this year as well, seems like it's always blowing.
Yes Bill....the wind! WE had a 65mph wind storm on Sunday,,,was watching a golf match on the "boob tube", heard this crashing, looked out the window and a neighbors unsecured , I say unsecured because as it was blowing down the road, it had no floor!, aluminum shed was blowin down the road!
Yes the year has been the whackiest ever here!
Dan
Those dust storms are incredible to see in person. A few years ago I had a pool complex to shoot on Texas Tech's campus. I hopped in the Skyline and headed to LBB early one morning. When I got to the east edge of Lubbock I could see the rolling dust cloud southwest of the city. I called LBB ATC, told them what I needed, they cleared me direct to the site which I found, circled three times and pointed the Cessna east. Looking over my shoulder I could see the rolling cloud envelope the Tech campus as I blasted out of the city. I had a 45 knot push half of the way home, relatively smooth air, it was close though, had I been 10 minutes late arriving the flight would have been for naught. I wanted to shoot the storm from the air, but decided it was time to fold 'em and get out of there. The atmosphere was trying to do something most of the way home..............
Danpbphoto wrote:
JA,
I have one that you are welcome to. I haven't used in in 30 years or more.
I don't know what the postage is but if you want it, its yours. And I believe I have extra bulbs for it also.
The prices here are astronomical!!!! What cost $25 last summer, plants, are $50 this year!!! Eggs $9 a dozen and Maryland is a huge poultry and egg producing state.
Glad you are feeling better and rising the corporate ladder!
Stay safe!
Dan
Thanks for the offer Dan, much appreciated but postal costs from Conus to Europe for packages are ridicules flat post is still doable.
I'm good though , still have some gift cards lying around so it's time to use them, but have to look around what's any good.
Back in the 1990's I was in Vegas. It was just blowing constantly. When I took off in my little Arrow, the GPS was registering 250 mph across the ground. Which is about 100 mph more than she's supposed to do. That tail wind blew me all the way from Vegas to eastern NM before the wind went down. Glad I wasn't headed the other way or I would have never arrived.
Jan-Arie wrote:
Thanks for the offer Dan, much appreciated but postal costs from Conus to Europe for packages are ridicules flat post is still doable.
I'm good though , still have some gift cards lying around so it's time to use them, but have to look around what's any good.
J.A.
Fine J-A! It is there if you need it. Yeah, I get "shivers" think about have a semi-delicate electronic item being thrown around by shippers. Again you are welcome to it!
Dan
I've been talking with Rob/Amy who I think most of you are familiar with in the "Wildlife" thread. Rob is an exceptional photographer who regularly uses his RF600/4, RF400/2.8, and RF800/5.6 for his work. He told me that he sold his 100-500 shortly after he got his RF600 and that he never looked back. I can't imagine not having the 100-500 in the arsenal, but I considered it a ringing endorsement of the RF600. I'm getting better though, only question my purchase three or four times a day now..................... My 600 is "out for delivery" today so the looong wait will be over shortly. Corporations are odd, I never saw a thing about it anywhere, my Canon guy never mentioned it, but my supplier in Austin emailed me to tell me that Canon was offering $500 off the RF600 if you traded anything in, "anything", I sent him a serial number and a picture of a defunct lens from 40 years ago, bingo. Why would they be giving $500 off a lens that they can't produce quickly enough to fill the orders? I didn't realize it when I was in the corporate mix at SC Johnson and Caterpillar, but I really love being on the outside looking in on all that "corporate wisdom", so grateful that I do what I do.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Dan! It's, for now, still a free country, if one doesn't like petroleum based energy and products, just don't use them, pretty simple. I'm all for battery research and invention, just don't mandate a bunch of things on a scale that doesn't work yet and ignore the realities because it fits the agenda. What we have right now is kind of like mandating that everyone use airborne transportation three weeks after the Wright Brothers did their thing at Kitty Hawk, great innovation, just not ready for prime time, common sense.......not so common these days.
A lot of the knuckle heads don't even know how much of the stuff they use daily are petroleum products. They thought it is just the gas cars burn.
A real treat to meet up with Mark at Conowingo Dam yesterday afternoon! Mark, there were some activities after you left but mostly butt shots or just too far away. Some shots from the afternoon. Some of these are heavily cropped. We need 100 MP sensor and 2000mm lens
Douglas L wrote:
A lot of the knuckle heads don't even know how much of the stuff they use daily are petroleum products. They thought it is just the gas cars burn.
A real treat to meet up with Mark at Conowingo Dam yesterday afternoon! Mark, there were some activities after you left but mostly butt shots or just too far away. Some shots from the afternoon. Some of these are heavily cropped. We need 100 MP sensor and 2000mm lens
Right, it would be great to get away from petro for transportation, but so many people don't realize we still need to produce oil for everything from fertilizer, tires, asphalt, plastics, synthetic fabrics, insecticides, ink, glasses, clothing, shoes, etc. Pretty much everything we touch, every day. Replacing petroleum for transportation is the easy part.
Great to meet you too Douglas!
Got to hang out with Douglas for about three hours, which really wasn't enough time. Hopefully we can do this again, I think I'll probably be down a few times in the next year.
And great shots! You were fortunate to get the head-on eagle, I suspect that was after I left. But I don't think I managed anything close to your shots over the two days I was there, just shows how much skill you bring.
I'll try to post a few later this week if I have anything worthwhile.
Did manage this today just before we dipped into the cloud deck on the way home.
Here in the Lone Star Exxon is looking out for Texans. One of our Houston refineries (Lyondel) is shutting down because the cost of maintaining operations to EPA standards is not profitable. The refinery began life as the Sinclair Refinery around 1923. I worked there for 4 years as an operator. It is a 250,000 barrel/day refinery.
Exxon is coming to the rescue. They are starting up a new $2 billion refinery in Beaumont that can process 250,000 barrels per day of light crude directly from the Permian Basin. This is great news because the EPA is continuing to go after all the older refineries along the Gulf Coast. Many were built about the same time as the 1923 Sinclair Refinery.
I can't imagine the hoops that have to be navigated in that process Ray, good for them! My guys will be sending them crude to refine! "Drill Baby, Drill!" Our emergency reserves are now at 42%, a bit precarious given the state of the world but who cares about that.............?
