Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Rio Grande Classic preamble.

Yeah.... The Top Gun Competition is coming up next weekend. Three days of heavy duty, target chasin, high diving, wild ridin, ballooning. Pretty much a kick butt thing to watch. Its very different than normal pleasure ballooning as these people will be getting briefed, prepping and flying as soon as they can. Its a very fast revolution.


Baggies will be thrown at targets and space will have position and time will be a target too. It will be interesting to see what I can capture this year. Hopefully I can get some better or different angles on the shoot. Gonna be tough. You cant just sit out with the balloons.. you pretty much have to target camp and hope they can get to you.. and there are usually three targets... so you have a choice....

Last year it was hard to get a great shot... had to try and work whatever came my way. I am lucky enough to be able to be here already which is a good thing since I usually cant get out of the house.

Here are a few from last year.... Really tone mapped .... for the hell of it.

 Secondary launches for the fun flyers.

 Strapped and running.

Carrying a target on a flyon.

This is when I balloon carries a target with them, launches before everyone else. they have to launch and chase the balloon through the sky and then throw on the target AFTER it gets laid out. Much fun as the wind streams are constantly changing.

Work today was a level of frustration I was amazed at. Since when does a carrier you are paying for managed care cant figure out your phone number and keeps saying its disconnected! Uh.. you just called me on that line.. how can it be disconnected...and... then telling me that you don't know why your system is saying that...w ell... I kinda lose confidence in you quickly. Oh.. yes.. telling me you dont know who to ask to find out inside your company really make me super happy!

Well tomorrow is another day and I am going to try and work around the problem from the other side and hopefully locate that info.

Never give up..never surrender!

My facebook banner turned out pretty cool... layers and layers and fades and all by hand.. no filters...


And Marys Birthday.. YAY....

Had steak and crostini and then ice cream!! Yay!

Go watch the coneheads State Farm Insurance commercial on You tube.. Hilarious!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qztxrASEBtY

This is pretty pointed....