Headed out this afternoon to shoot one more commercial pool before it closes for the season, it's a new Lifetime Fitness. Winds are pretty dicey today but I think the drone can handle it. Interesting week, today makes 7 days straight of shooting and every day was THI of 111 or above, whew! No break in sight in the 14 day forecast, looking forward to that first "cold front" that drops overnight temps below 80. Yesterday the project was a new retail complex for Browning Sporting Goods and the a/c was giving them trouble so it was about 3,000 degrees inside, but the client is moving in today so that was our only window. My "swelter" surcharge was in effect!
Jim,
our area has been burning up from the heat and humidity since May. Everything is burned up. We had a few days of light rain and milder temps but today WOW...Brutal 100+
JWilsonphoto wrote:
That dusk harvest would make for some wonderful drone clips Eddie Ray! One would have to stay out of the dust, but there'd be some cool footage for sure.
I wish I had a drone, it would have been much easier. I was chasing the crew on foot up and down the rows to find the right spots while they were rolling in tandem offloading the corn from the combine into the grain cart. They have so much corn this year (thanks to La Niņa this last spring with all the rain) they ran out of storage. They have a temporary storage set up about 1/2 mile from my place. Therefore, the grain cart (which holds over 3 combine loads, 1100 bushels) had to travel to the temp site to unload and then return. Several times the combine had to stop to wait for him, because the combine hopper was filling up so fast. When I rode in the combine, I saw he was harvesting over 100 bushels an acre on my place, normally, 75 would be good. The national average is about 175 bushels an acre, but that is because the large midwest farms have irrigation and can harvest over 300 bushels/acre. No irrigation here in our area, so any production over 75 is very welcomed. With the high fuel/fertilizer costs in the last years and the production down due to the drought here, La Niņa may finally give him a debt free year.
BauerPower wrote:
My aunt Gladys lived in McGregor. She was always a stop on the way home from college (Texas Tech). There was always something sweet waiting.
I always wanted to stop in Moody. The railroad and the main street looked interesting.
Your night combines look almost like an alien invasion. Great stuff.
Thank you!
McGregor is where SpacEx has their rocket engine test facility. Sure can get loud and smokey!
Ray Swindle wrote:
What lens did you use on the second Blackbird shot Omer?
I'm using the Sony APS-C gear, in this case both images were made with an a6600 and the slightly infamous Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS. Considering the ZIESS name on its side, the lens is optically a 'disappointment.' Still, it is small, not heavy, well made with great stabilization. I don't mind whatever optical faults it has so I use it. The second image was at 16mm, the first at 40mm.
Thanks Omar. Because of the short distance available in that building I thought you were using something very wide. You did a really good job considering the conditions. Thanks for posting them.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Thanks Omar. Because of the short distance available in that building I thought you were using something very wide. You did a really good job considering the conditions. Thanks for posting them.
Danpbphoto wrote:
Jim,
our area has been burning up from the heat and humidity since May. Everything is burned up. We had a few days of light rain and milder temps but today WOW...Brutal 100+
Stay cool!
Dan
69 F this morning in Minnetundra when I went out to change the alternator on my `vert. Topped out at 72 F. t was a nice reminder of why I live here.
henry albert wrote:
69 F this morning in Minnetundra when I went out to change the alternator on my `vert. Topped out at 72 F. t was a nice reminder of why I live here.
When I worked at Boeing, they gave me the crew escape suit project (post Challenger). Most of our technicians in the lab were suit techs from the SR-71 program. They were recruited because the suit was basically the same as the Blackbird suits and they relocated to us because the SR-71 program was shutting down. They told me the SR-71 was not fully fueled on the ground because at ground static temperatures it leaked fuel like a sieve. When the Blackbird was launched, it had enough fuel for startup, taxi, takeoff and then was immediately refueled in the air. The open cell fuel panels would expand as the Blackbird heated up at operational speed and altitude, thus sealing the panels. I assume the fuselage fuel tanks were bladder type tanks, but the wing tanks were not, similar to the F-4.
Getting to be RAID expansion planning time. Each of my OWC Thunderbay 8 enclosures have about 30TB of room left, that's roughly 50 assignments, give or take, depending on how much video is involved. I'll fill the new enclosures with 22TB drives which will give me 182 TB, minus 22TB for the RAID 5 configuration. This addition will bring my total back up storage to just over 2 PB and should protect me for a couple of years.
I would have had to do this upgrade a while back but covid put the brakes on my assignment load for a couple of years. I have several clients asking about 8K mastering of their video work so I guess it's time to begin thinking about that.
WOW...Brutal 100+
