Wild Horse Wind Farm -

This was my first event and we really had fun thanks to everyone that joined in and we are looking forward to the next event. 

Thanks to Cobolt for organizing things went smoothly at least as far as I could tell being new. 

Thanks to Hapa Haole for the use of the radio and it was nice to meet both of you.  I now have an idea of what radio to get. 

You're welcome John/Slyderone for the radio usage and you may borrow it again if you don't acquire one before the next gathering.  

Thank you Justin/Cobalt for the fun drive and arranging the very informational tour of the wind farm.  It was mind-boggling how HUGE those windmills are and to learn all the statistics of them.  The whole day was totally awesome!  Thank you again for arranging the drive and tour.   

I feel privileged to have run into a firefighter buddy of mine yesterday morning.  How convenient that he happened to be on duty, assigned to the fire truck, and near our meeting place at Krispy Kreme in Issaquah at the exact time we were there.   Thanks to everyone for the last-minute relocation of our MINIs in the parking lot for the group photo of the cars.  I hope to post those soon (I need to get them off my camera).  Also, Soggy-1 has the better photos on his fancy camera (the other camera I took up with me) so hopefully we'll see those soon as well.

Cobalt (Justin)!

Thanks so much for organizing this event.  You did a great job!

Here is a web page I created for this run.  There are a few shaky videos incorporated into it and they take longer to load than the photos, but I think they work.

http://www.mini4fun.info/Wild_Horse/Photos_%26_Videos.html#64

Thanks for taking my camera up the ladder Brenda and getting those aerial shots!!

Stephen & Lee


Edited by WOODSTOCK - August/30/10 at 8:32am

Hi - Here are four panoramas from the Wild Horse drive, plus a panorama from the 2008 drive from NW Mini to West Seattle.  http://s773.photobucket.com/albums/yy16/tvstrategies/Mini%20Cooper%20panoramas/

If anyone wants these in full-res, they can be downloaded from my Web site - http://www.tvstrategies.com/tvstrategies/Photography.html - and scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Cheerio!
Enjoy! - Steve


Edited by tvstrategies - August/29/10 at 1:55pm

Thank you very much.

Ty:

Your psychology worked very well!

S.

I don't know what you are talking about Italianjob.

Thanks Justin for organizing the drive & tour yesterday, we thoroughly enjoyed the drive & very interesting presentation & up close look at a windmill. The detour off of I90 was new to us a lot of fun as well as a beautiful drive, we enjoyed it so much we took the same route back.

Jenny:

Try emailing the photos to yourself and when you are doing it in the Preferences for your mail program, or your photo program, pick a small file size.  That is the reason that some of us have used Programs and services like Photobucket, Flicker, Webshots.  I use the program in the MAC, iWeb, and generate my own page that I can control.

We saw you take the same return trip and thought you wanted to see the things you missed the first pass @ Warp Speed.  Martin was using Photon Drive once he got off I-90 to the drive to the Wind Farm.

Stephen & Lee

Looks like it was a fun trip, and great weather. Nice photos everyone!

 

Thanks Wildfamily!

Edited by Cobalt - August/30/10 at 8:47am

Hi - 4 things:

1) The afore/abovementioned yellow Motorola radio was lent to me at the start of the day in Issaquah.  I can't remember his name, nor did I see him at Wings Central afterward.  But he was wearing a Google jacket (you know who you are).  Thanks for the loaner, and we had to leave fairly quickly because my son had to be back in Issq for work.  I gave it to Justin since he was the organizer, i figured "give it to someone who at least appears to be in charge..."

2) Here are some videos that I posted on YouTube last night.  Thanks to having my son Kevin as a co-pilot to take some of them! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQ8rdfUx_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVz9R_cLI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czh-349eC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz6OO8HCBow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOKV01nPIM

3) Another panorama - this time, just the wind farm and no Minis.  A still picture - not a video. 
Warning - large file (20mb). 
http://www.tvstrategies.com/photography/panorama/082810-Wild_Horse_Wind_Farm_Vantage_WA.jpg


4) If anyone knows where I can find further information about a video camera for these drives, i'd be grateful(postings on these forums?).  I'm aware that there are all-electronic Webcam-like devices with reasonable resolution that plug into a computer's USB port, and that they are mountable in cars, but I don't know where to even start looking.  Post to me offline or start a new thread.

Cheers - Steve

Steve:

GoPro Hero cameras.  Griot's sells them but they might be more reasonably priced elsewhere.  There are several models.  I have seen them on cars doing autocross, surfboards, kayaks and on kites.  They are tough, waterproof and apparently take reasonable photos (5mp I believe). 

That still panorama must have been shot in RAW?

Stephen

Very nice job, Justin and all who participated and took all the amazing pictures!  Wish we could have gone along, but I'm so glad that everyone who made the trip had such a good time and it was a huge success!