My forray into HDR

What is HDR, you ask? BAM. see examples below. Im not sure these small images do it justice. follow the pictures thru to see them in a larger size. Anyways, HDR stands for high dynamic range, and basically, it means you take 3 pictures, and then take the brightest part of each of them and compose it into a new picture. ever have the problem of taking a picture into the sun, and either the sun, or the foreground is out of focus or washed…

my fleet, and flying the funtana and demoiselle is fixed!

Well, it was finally time. over the last few weeks i finally worked up the courage to fly the funtana. well, that and it was finally nice enough weather on the weekend that we could actually go out to fly! so, last weekend, i brought out the entire fleet so far, minus the discus glider. my flying fleet so, heres what happened. dave flew his heli and plane around some, it was a kinda windy day, so i was seeing if the wind would die…

Site visit in febuary

So, i was up at site again last week, for the whole week. it was pretty busy, and i ended up mostly training someone, but it was good. had great weather, and it was finally just above freezing. heres a great picture of what the haul truck tires look like. its always difficult to get a sense of scale when they are on the truck. this is the wolverine mine, which is our largest mine currently, and the second mine to start production. its pretty…