Dang, I need a raise ;)

I just went with my partner up to Stillwater, OK in our Cessna 172. I "got" to shoot some oblique angle construction site progress photos. We shoot that client once per month. We attached the nadir camera system and got it set up to work on a little project as a test. I can tell you hanging onto a 7 pound camera system (Canon 5D MarkII) with the 70-200 mm L glass lens and keeping it pointed at a building as we fly a circle around it is nothing like shooting pictures at the beach of girls in bikinis or a day at the track shooting Porsches. That 130 MPH wind blowing past makes it hard to control.

No gnomes showed up. Think the rabbit's names are Chip and Crack.

Sounds like a BLAST!

Yea, it was not the worst day at work. That camera will shoot a photo as fast as the button can be pushed. I guess it is an assault camera, or full auto if you want. We don't keep it in full machine gun rapid fire so it takes a press of the button to get it to fire. When in doubt, shoot the photo. I ended up with 64 frames of the building in a 400% circle around the site. We go more than a full circle to be 100% sure we got it from every angle. Then I have to edit out a the near duplicates. I get it down to 24 which is over double of what they need. I let them pick and choose which images that want to use of the 24.

We shoot everything in RAW mode, and tweak the image in Photoshop, and of course crop it to a size of image that is reasonable. The 5D shoot a 35MB file in full res. I crop it down to a more reasonable size. The camera shoots a 5616x3744 so there is lots of room to crop.

So, on my propane grill.

Since I put the last bottle on it just hasn't gotten nearly as hot. Is that bottle's tap messed up. Worked fine until then. Grilled a steak for lunch today. Had it on the grill for 20 minutes. It never did even make grill marks. It was like I had the grill set on low.

Guess I will just have to go get my other bottle filled and see if there is a differnce. I hope it's the bottle and NOT my grill.

Why not photoshop some bikini clad women next to the building? I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

That would be difficult. First I would need some aerials of bikini clad women to Photoshop into the construction site. I guess we need to make a trip to a beach somewhere to shoot some chicks!

The construction company is about as humorless and pure business as any company I have ever dealt with. They might not see the fun in the altered photos.

Has the snow all melted away up there yet Pete?

Come to SoCal.

Was an art director on a monthly publication for businesses on how to manage using biblical principles. I usually had to stay up way late the night before the deadline so I could reflow and readjust stuff after the content editors got done. I kept myself entertained by working my face and/or profile into the pictures and graphics.

What got me thinking of this was one picture was an aerial shot of the jungles in the Andes mountains. I edited the jungle and mountains so it had a relief of my face. You didn't really notice until I pointed it out, then you couldn't not see it.

Did the same thing with the leaves or bark on trees, put my face or a drawing of me where logos where in the pictures. All kinds of out of the way not obvious places.

Put myself in all kinds of photographs too. Flying planes, driving cars, riding in cars, crowds, etc. One picture was of Edison and his pioneers in a big group photo outside one of his factories. Put myself in the window of the factory behind them looking out at the group.

It was fun and kept me entertained waiting for the editors. People in-the-know said they enjoyed playing "Find the Richard" in the publications. Nobody ever noticed until they were told what to look for. A few years after I stopped working on the publication I mentioned it to one of the directors. He had no idea. He dug out his archived copies from the two years I worked on the publication and sure enough, there I was looking back at him. LOL.

That would be funny to do.

No. Plowed some more off the roads today. Just a dusting.
I'll bet there is 1 and a half to 2 feet of it in the woods still. Anything out in the open is mostly gone.
Just shot this now. Don't think the garden is quite ready yet.
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Those editors probably though I was nuts sitting in my office laughing and having a good time while they were working.

One photo was a guy driving an old timey car with him self and a guy in the back seat wearing top hats and beards, and a girl in the front seat and two in the back with those big frilly sun bonnets. Put my facial features on everyone in the car. Only the guy in the back seat looked exactly like me. Everyone else just had my eyes and nose. Looked like a family that everyone looked just a little too much alike.

Also on the top of every page was a quote from a famous person that had to do with the management point in that issue. One of the quotes for the month was always —Mom. I wrote all the "Mom" quotes.

"Jeffery, quit picking on your sister." —Mom

Good Morning, I heard thunder.

Does anyone else remember calling their Mom to wipe their butt after they finished pooping?

"Always wear clean underwear. You might be in an accident." —Mom

Morning all. We have had over half inch of rain and more coming.

We are off to the PCA breakfast this morning in the Elky.

Richard, no I don’t remember that at all. However my brother broke both arms at the same time. He had each arm in a cast. He could not feed himself or do much of anything for himself. Every visit to the bathroom, even to pee required mom’s help.

Remember stuff from when I was very young.

Played with the girl almost my age next door. Her Mom had me go with the door open and cleaned me up when done. Same for her daughter. Even remember when she started closing the door. Said her daughter might be getting old enough to remember.

Also remember Mom taking me to the women restroom at stores.

Right after I stared cleaning up myself remember my Dad was shaving and told me to wipe from front to back, that only girls wiped from back to front.

Wondered if anyone else remembered things happening from when they were that young.

"Wait till your father gets home." -Mom

"if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." —Mom

"Your face is going to get stuck like that." —Mom

Buenos noches, y’all. I pulled the gas tank out of the 280Z this afternoon so I can take it to a shop to be cleaned and resealed. The car had been sitting for 16 years, so I want to refurbish the tank and replace all the fuel hoses. I have new fuel injectors on order, too.

Sounds like you are having lots of fun wrenchin on that Z car.

Probsbly ought to at least flush the tank and lines (clean the filters) on the 928 since it sat for 3 years.

"Wash up for supper. Use soap this time." —Mom

How's the paint on the Z car. You gonna paint it?

When 5 a neighbor girl, Wendy and I found a can with some white house paint in the lots behind my house. We proceeded to take off all our clothes and paint each other from head to toe. When done playing we put our clothes back on an went home. Don't remember the painting and playing nearly as much as the turpentine scrubbing I got. Don't remember hearing about what happened to Wendy.

"Why would you paint yourself? You're already white?" —Mom

Havd never had the desire to get any sort of tatoo.