As good as a poke in the eye!

I think the poke would have been better than the rock in the eye I got from Eric's fan.. I blame the fan.. it had its sneaky snarky blades just waiting to fling that stone... just....waiting....

It was a mothers sisters pain in the eye. Hit right between my inside eye and center. Thank goodness for that. It has taken most of the day for it to lessen the feeling of a rock stuck in there. But I did get some good shots of everyone flying off... mostly before that thing. I posted three of each onto fazebook. I have more selective shots too. I did a set of shots just on Bobs cameron system which I will at some future date post and explain. For today I have some off shots that no one really ever take shots of.. mostly. Never be predictable in all things. Most things.

On the interwebs there is a relatively funny photography youtube link that goes on about photography but with a quirky funny bent... they went on about the standard shots people take... Sunsets, clouds, bokeh and such.. they went on about its bad bad bad... but they do it too... funny...Whatever spins your wheels is what I say.

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

Funny stuff... most of they stuff is pretty good if not odd in a odd way...  now for a few ... different ballooning things...

Edgeglows.

 I pulled off the side of the road to get this shot. Nicely glowy but a little diffused... no focussed right.

Shorts or highwaters?

 The attire of the summer balloonist in Albuquerque.

Solar power.

 If the rock wasn't going to burn my eye out it was trying to line up this shot. ouchy!

Scuffing it up.

Its what its made for. It lasts a long time and protects the lower whicker from drag and rock damage. It has such character.

So those are some of the off ( non photographic choice ) shots that I think are much nicer than the standard shot... but then saying that below are some nice standard shots never before seen in this space today.

Silhouette of a flight.

 Zigging and Zagging.

Nom De Plume.

Emerald stairs.

Pointing out directions.

I was looking for other things on these shots. I did a lot of filler shots in between of full view balloons doing balloon things...like going around other balloons ( Bob ) and popping over and down into arroyos. Spinning in place and closeup shots of people too. It was a nice day but I had to cut it short after the rock incident.

Now comes the other pain in the butt. Right after I downloaded the shots off of the two super fast Sandisk micro chips they failed! Stunningly. I reformatted them and they work on the computer but the camera will have noting to do with them. I tried swapping adapters and chips and cameras... everything else works but those two chips. So I had to go onto Sandisks website and process to get them replaced as I just bought them last month. They wanted pictures of front and back of the chips, serial numbers and proof of purchase... that with a  tearing eye... So much fun. Well it done for both and now to see what will happen and how fast. Glad I have spares.

After that I was able to get the last segment of last Saturdays Angel Fire 360 video processed. THen I worked on speeding it up. It worked out but seems jerky.. and I dont know why. At this point I am just glad its done. I can look into the GoPro versions and hope they are nice enough. I am also hoping that the upload finishes soon.

Hows that for a day of stuff....

Facebook banner and logo.... yeah..

Reminds me I have to set my flag links on my crown line and also that there are more things needing done than hours in 96 days.