nature and man

a second successful flight with the camera.. [battery wasn't charged so this one's short, and the wind was pulling really hard so i only let out somewhere around half the line i'd guess -- on the time-lapse yesterday, i let out the whole 500 feet of line minus what i needed to anchor it down]

[this one's at a different spot as the night before i tried to help pull a guy's truck out of the sand/water - his back end was in the bay! i got to try 4 low on my truck, though the rope we found wasn't strong enough so he had a tow truck pull him out with a cable]

shortly after breakfast, getting ready to leave North Peninsula State Park and head toward Atlanta..

Went on a bike ride earlier today.. here are some shots from the Illinois Prairie Path.. what a beautiful day today was in Chicagoland! As soon as I woke up, I could feel a great warm energy all around.. what a turn around from the past couple days that were cold and gray! Everything looked and felt so alive today!

here’s a reverse little planet, a stereographic tunnel.. some stitching errors are visible in this one (the wind was blowing constantly and was pretty strong so the clouds in the last shot were in a different position in the sky than in the first shot and couldn’t align properly) here’s the first take on the top shot (before I decided to slow the frame rate down to compensate for the wind)..

gopro hd hero2

trying out the gopro chest mount on a bike ride..

Perseverance. If at first you don’t succeed, you try again. [and again, and again, and again, and as many times as you must -- if need be] Challenges, lessons, doubts, secondaries can arise. Embrace them, for they are merely a part of the journey. Sometimes they make for a much more intersting story! :) Keep on going, and you will get to where you want to be.

Here’s my first successful flight in kite aerial photography. Yes, the camera angle is a little off as the picavet wasn’t hanging properly, yet I consider it a success. I like the shot below [one random one out of the 2400+ as I was looking for a few samples to edit the colors with] — and I didn’t expect the truck/camper to be in the shot at all! Expect the unexpected, and embrace what you do discover! Life is brilliant that way! It truly is amazing! Let life shine brightly and you’ll enjoy it that much more!

It’s funny, sometimes you [almost] have to forget where you’re going in order to get there! My friend Saren called last night [I type this the morning after the flight as the time-lapse files are still processing] unexpectedly and we both [seem to have] had experiences of that happening recently! It becomes part of your every day experience and it’s fun to watch!

in / near the Holey Land Wildlife Management Area and Stormwater Treatment Areas (a few miles west of U.S. Hwy 27, between Lake Okeechobee and Alligator Alley)