A very fun day today with the camera and GoPro vid cams. Friends were getting together to watch and help out with an in balloon basket, in the sky, engagement proposal. There are a few problems that come up with this type of thing.
One, How do you keep it secret. Well, since Rachel and Lev have crewed for Keith for ages it was pretty normal for them to fly as they just got back into town.
Two, How do you take pictures without tipping your hand. Everyone knows except Rachel but I have to do the, Hay Keith , is it okay to put some cameras on the basket... Which he says sure.. LOL. I do this when I am not carrying them myself.
Three, you had better be sure she is going to say yes or it will be a long and depressing flight until you land.
Four, Pulling a diamond ring out and showing it and putting it on in a basket in the air is very dangerous. Most excited newly engaged fling their arms about which can lead to the ring going into the wild blue ( your never ever gonna find it ) blue sky. We usually explain to the soon to be engagee to keep a good grip on it and do not let it go even if she says yes. Lev did great because he kept it below the edge of the basket and Rachel who is also a veteran of flying and crewing knew also to be careful. I have done one of these and even after explaining to the engagee he handed it ( or she grabbed it ( I believe grabbed )) and swung her arm with ring over the side at 300 feet up. I grabbed her arm and pulled it back in quickly but ... whew!
Five, Get the newly engaged back to the ground as safely as possible. Keith did a great job after splash and dashing three times in the river. He was even able to find a beautiful park in the middle of some trees to land in. Very nice.
Both GoPro's ran and worked great. The video was great and I was even able to get some pictures clipped out of it. I touched up a few shots and they will be below. The rest of today was downloading and verifying all the files. Took a long time.
Feine.
Lenticular.
Murder In The Skies.
Rachel and Amye watching.
Massive amount of crew were out. We could have put up four balloons instead of just two. Crew on the throat holding it open to get it packed with cold air.
Keith The Pyro.
DeBee up and Takach A Breeze follows.
Will You?
The air currents were giving Eric fits trying to get the banner out and not twisted or sucking up into the burner.. It was made out of paper and good job to the makers because it worked well.
Can you see it?
The smiling couple.
Feet Wet.
Taxi Service.
All shots were tone mapped and only one was edited. Can you figure out which balloon I added?
Here are a few links. pretty poor day for new things..
This is a hoot. Fun to try.
http://gizmodo.com/can-you-spot-the-hidden-easter-eggs-in-this-20-gigapixe-1509297350
Interesting. I like lights.. say it like.. I like turtles....
http://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/25/ArtStrobe-Interactive-Light-Art/
Blackbeard.... If you want to read a good story on Blackbeard, read Tim Powers On Stranger Tides. Yes, all the stupid Pirates of the Caribbean movies were based off of this book, Yes the last movie is right from this book. No.. the book is much more amazing than any of the movies. If they made a movie of the book and stayed true to the book it would freak you out. Freak Freak Freak!
If you believe having more twitter followers or friends on facebook or google+ defines you.. ouch!
http://gizmodo.com/a-stupid-simple-twitter-bug-lets-you-create-followers-j-1509342431
Me...not so much.. or at all..
A work of art and function. Wished I wore watches. They can't last my lashing arm smacking things haphazardly along the travels in a ring.
http://www.gizmag.com/breva-genie-02-altimeter-watch/30568/
Go look at all the images!
Nice
Even the back is nice. Almost worth going backwards.
