The crew removed all the gutters, power washed the whole house and repaired any siding that needed it, then painted the house yesterday. They arrived at 6 this morning and are cleaning up as we speak. New gutters, paint touch up and final clean up tomorrow.
Those guys on the roof...that work is HOT! You just don't get use to 100+° temps. Hope they stop around 2 or 3pm. That is brutal work...been there, done that! (2011)
This is the crew that traveled around the US with me when I was the photographer for ELK. the world's largest composite shingle manufacturer. We'd select a house based upon regional architecture and landscape, then we would talk to the homeowner and ask them if we could roof their house with whatever product and color we wanted to promote. Most of the time the homeowner was excited about the free roof and my crew would do a "picture perfect" installation, then I'd capture it. They are based in Celina, about 20 minutes from my house. As I said, they arrived at 6 this morning and the last truck rolled out around 9 this evening, unbelievable. The different teams work in concert with each other, the first team got the house ready for today's team and today the second team completely roofed my house and that is a lot of "squares" to lay down in one day. Tomorrow the first team returns and touches up anything that might have gotten nicked in today's process. There have been a bunch of homes re-roofed on our street, and more to come, but I know the people who have hired other companies must have driven by my crew today and regretted their decision. Just the way they protected the pool and landscape compared to these other crews was exceptional.
Beautiful home Jim.
Is it on 1 floor? Basement? It is a beautiful house! Love the architecture and roof lines!
I need a "man cave" for photos and so Suzanne can escape me. She cannot do steps.
WE had to replace our roof 2 years ago from a hole. We caught it before any major damage. Then when I submitted a claim to Allstate, they refused to pay! My hands were NOT in good with Allstate! A customer since 1979!
Dan
Hi Dan, two story, two bedrooms up and a game room that is my office. Sheila nd I have talked about building something new, if we did it would all be on one floor. Building costs are so ridiculous that I doubt the will happen. JR wants to buy some land, put a grass strip in and build a couple of nice single level homes, but we would have to go so fr north to do that , Sheila would be a hard pass on being that far from everything.
Just got an email from a client that I haven't heard from in a couple of years. They apologetically said that they have been behind the curve in getting projects finished and organized for me to shoot. Attached to the email was a list of 18 individual projects all over Texas that they would like me to capture. That's a wonderful windfall that will easily take me from now til spring to complete. Lots of drone work involved as well, I think I better put "Brewsphotos" on retainer for emergency technical help..................
Just set up my Apple Studio Display. Wow, the difference is amazing. I should have added the larger monitor years ago. Of course it doesn't do me any good when I am processing photos at sports venues, but processing them at home will be so much easier. Plus, I can actually read my spreadsheets without my glasses!
Yes. I was surprised at the simple and intuitive set up. With the three USB-C ports in the back I have three drives connected. Guess I am going to be looking at a dock before long.
I asked my wife to plug in her iPad. It worked fine, although the Display does not fill the entire screen like the MBP. Could be something in the settings. The display from the iPad uses about 2/3 of the Studio Display screen, but it is still larger than the iPad.
I bought the Apple Display a year or so ago, when I had my previous MacBook Pro. Loved it, but it would flicker to a black screen on and off and Apple couldn't tell me why, so I returned it. Might take another run at it.
I was assigned a game at the dungeon last night. I broke out the 300 f2.8 although I did use 3.2 vs 2.8 just to cheat the depth of field. Glad I had it, the 100-400 would have struggled using 5.6.
Just a simple shot of a lot of hitting:
Gotta outrun the defensive linemen:
In order to get a sideline shot into the backfield, I had to stand 10 yards from the sideline, almost next to the stands.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Just set up my Apple Studio Display. Wow, the difference is amazing. I should have added the larger monitor years ago. Of course it doesn't do me any good when I am processing photos at sports venues, but processing them at home will be so much easier. Plus, I can actually read my spreadsheets without my glasses!
That is why I like a large monitor Ray! I don't have to use my glasses!!!
Glad you are "up and running"..a little pun for sports and football season! I am ready for some football!!!!!
High school football stopped day games long ago. I miss spending a Saturday afternoon or weekday shooting football. Night games are great but they usually go past my bedtime!
My client asked me to go back and shoot some additional stuff at one of their water parks and the season is coming to a close so I chose yesterday to do it. Went over around 1:30 and left around 9, toasty! I had a break while I was waiting for dusk, and DFW was 10 minutes away, so I went and played at Founder's Square for a couple of hours.
The RF 600 does a good job of dealing with heat haze, it was 111 with lots of concrete so it was the acid test. Man, they were using a lot of runway in that heat!
Ray Swindle wrote:
I was assigned a game at the dungeon last night. I broke out the 300 f2.8 although I did use 3.2 vs 2.8 just to cheat the depth of field. Glad I had it, the 100-400 would have struggled using 5.6.
Went to Martinsburg, WV yesterday for a small airshow, no BA nor TB, the F-22 is the main draw. I don't think I had seen an Ac-130 gunship in the air before until yesterday.
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And the main reason I went to the show, the Raptor... I didn't shoot much with the 600mm+1.4 TC this time, the runway is very close to the viewing area.
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