A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months…
The series continues… From our Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata used his Nikon D850 to get these images of the rich kids’ liberal arts college, Bowdoin, in Brunswick, Maine, formerly best known for its Naval Air Station (now KBXM).
Choose from Africana Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Latinx Studies, Coastal Studies, and Cinema Studies (I would love to sit in on the Zoolander lecture!).
Seventh of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
From just north of Portland, Maine to the shopping Mecca of Freeport:
LL Bean, which closed during the March 2020 coronapanic for the first time in its history (since opening in 1912, it had never previously been closed for more than 24 hours), is back up and running.
Full post, including commentsSixth of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Portland, Maine:
Thanks to MAC Jets for the great stop, as usual, and for the crew car that enabled us to take Tony on his first visit to Tony’s Donut Shop:
Fifth of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Cape Elizabeth, just south of Portland, Maine:
Fourth of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine:
Third of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Kennebunk (home of restricted airspace) to just before Old Orchard Beach, Maine:
Second of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Here are some of the images, in 8K resolution, starting just north of Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
The 226-room Cliff House just south of Ogunquit (maybe one of the COVID-19 billionaires will purchase this as a personal quarantine residence for the next round of mutant virus?):
Ogunquit through Wells, Maine:
First of a series… near the peak of foliage season (mid-October) we decided to fly from Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine, following the shoreline, in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed (frosty!) and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow was with me in the front seats.
Here are some of the images, in 8K resolution, starting in Newburyport, Massachusetts and going through Hampton, New Hampshire:
Up through Rye, New Hampshire:
and then to Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
I’m also working on an 8K YouTube video, tied up for some time in a copyright dispute due to scammers downloading public domain music from musopen.org, rolling it into profit-seeking YouTube “albums”, and then claiming it as their own original copyright material. (The copyright claim seems to be cleared now, but YouTube’s servers are still crunching away to build 4K and 8K versions.)
Full post, including commentsA challenging high-contrast night scene for the iPhone 12 Pro Max:
I hope that you all appreciate our Christmas lights…. Merry Christmas!
(Okay, perhaps I have falsely taken credit for this neighbor’s epic display.)
As long as we’re celebrating Jesus’s birthday, a story about his father/mother/other….
Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing are leaving the courtroom after arguing on behalf of Donald Trump and they get hit by a taxpayer-funded empty city bus.
God meets them at the pearly gates and asks if they have any questions.
“Yes, we do,” says Giuliani. Toensing steps forward and asks “What would the result of the 2020 election have been without the Democrats’ fraud?”
God replies, “It was an unusual year, with all of the unsolicited mail-in ballots encouraging my lazy young children to vote for the first time. But the 18-year-olds actually did vote for a bigger government and for Presidents Biden and Harris. Remember that it will be years before most of them get jobs and start paying taxes, so it makes sense for them to vote for more handouts. Removing the fraudulent ballots wouldn’t have changed the result. Biden won by a narrow margin.”
Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing are stunned. After a moment of silence, Giuliani turns to Toensing and whispers, “This goes higher up than we thought.”
Full post, including commentsPublic aquariums have webcams, e.g., from the Georgia Aquarium (funded by Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus and reopened, unlike our aquarium here in Boston).
What about for hobbyists? We should be able to buy a product that goes into the tank, gets power from a USB-C cable, and transmits video back up the cable to a wall wart that then pushes the video up to a server or at least a local computer. This is basically the same hardware as in an $85 Ring Stick Up camera, right, but cracked into a couple of pieces and a little more waterproofed?
Why doesn’t this product exist? Why can’t our fish “go live” on Facebook without a lot of custom engineering?
(And, no, it wouldn’t be acceptable to have a camera on the outside of the tank due to algae growth. Nor is it easy to find that kind of product already packaged up!)
(above: Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium)
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