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Waiting for his human to get the bike ready for more morning exercise runs on nearby riding trails. Great capture of his eyes revealing...

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Balloon Race Weekend

Sat Oct 18, 2008, 10:19 AM
Challenge to video moving subjects in 46 degree cool morning with new equipment.

Friday liftoff cancelled due to cold front finishing moving East of Natchez.

Saturday morning before finished coffee, heard burners firing over our home. First race began in old kcs lumber yard, four hundred yard North of our yards! Got several decent pics and close up of Natural High experienced by one pilot. Winds picked up and shifted SSE, scanner chatter increased. One pilot landed on one of the small islands in the Mississippi river, south of the bridges.

Two pilots had to land in the game reserve, well south of the intended landing zone, all recovered safely due to efforts of local chase crews finding creative entrance paths with cell phone directions.

Fun and always new hot air balloon adventures are well worth the visit each October!

Reviewing first video clips made with new monopod help to stabilize zoom lens experiments. Will add clips later.

"The Clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." Thomas Jefferson.
  • Mood: Exhilarated
  • Listening to: Wind and Balloon burners
  • Reading: Sittin' Thinkin', Darkey Dialect Poems
  • Watching: For hot air balloons and chase crews
  • Playing: with zoom photos and exposure settings
  • Eating: Oatmeal with raisins
  • Drinking: dark roast coffee

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  • Current Residence: Natchez, Mississippi
  • Interests: Mood altering music, fractals, billiards, cooking, LSU Tigers, photography and computer manipulation
  • Favourite movie: History of the World Part 1, A Clockwork Orange, Lair of the White Worm, Heavy Metal, Pulp Fiction
  • Favourite band or musician: ZZ Top,PinkFloyd,JethroTull,BBKing,Otep,Emerald Rose
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock,Blues,Rap,Indie,jazz, trance drumming
  • Favourite artist: Robert Crumb(fun cartoon characters) Ron English(surreal popular icons,billboard modifications)
  • Favourite poet or writer: Carlos Castaneda, Depak Chopra, Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Douglas Adams
  • Favourite photographer: Henry Norman and his son, Earl(late 19th century MS river and Natchez)
  • Favourite style of art: Fractals, Nudes(women are works of art), Abstract
  • Operating System: Windows XP
  • Shell of choice: Pasta
  • Wallpaper of choice: Hubble Deep Space
  • Skin of choice: Sky Clad
  • Favourite game: venison
  • Favourite cartoon character: Scooby Doo
  • Personal Quote: Think For Yourself and Question Authority
  • Tools of the Trade: Canon HF100 and Photo Shop elements 6

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Much appreciated, as always :)

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thanx much for the recent favs;)

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thanks so much for the :+fav:! =]

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Hey thanks a lot for the fav ;P
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Thanks for the faves! :glomp:

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