Mostly Maine
Aerial views of Midcoast Maine
Again, changes need to be made to Androken Aerial. No airplane, but I do have a drone, cameras, a robust video editing system (Final Cut Pro) and AI generated images. The following is a bit of fun I had working with a green screen, lighting and some artificial intelligence generated images from Photoshop (Adobe) and Sora (OpenAI).
I ordered two maps and a book on Baxter State Park (BSP) geology the end of last year. Yesterday they arrived, all in good shape, other than the mail carrier trying to stuff a large envelope into our normal sized mailbox. No damage done. I was very pleased with the quick turn around of the maps and books from BSP. Thank you!
The University of Sydney (Australia), has all sorts of interesting animated graphics depicting among other things the movement of tectonic plates. After studying several of their graphics, its become obvious why my question about where Katahdin originated is a bit naive. There has been such a huge shift in the location of these plates since 200 Million Years Ago (Ma) when according to U of Sydney models the earth looked like this. This image sketches out the last giant super continent, Pangea.
Going back 400 Ma, prior to the formation of Pangea, the continents were unrecognizable, at least to my uneducated eyes. But this was the age you find references to Katahdin’s origin, perhaps as a super volcano. At this point, I’ll accept that the origin of Katahdin remains a mystery.
http://portal.gplates.org/cesium/?view=topo_recon
The GPlate app that generated the above graphic.
http://portal.gplates.org/#apps-anchor
GPlates Portal (University of Sydney) All sorts of interesting graphics for those interested in earth sciences including tectonic plate movement.
Enough said on that subject; although, I will add no more cutting. Ugh!
Reviewing my last flight for additional sunset pictures. I kind of like this one.
Emmeline’s boyfriend Oscar, created this video from our flight on July 18. Sorry, so far no shots of Oscar. Oh wait, here’s a non aviation picture taken by Anne Ferrard.
Plus an explosive ending, recommended by Nicholas, no more boring videos.
Yesterday I flew my first solo flight to Bethel since last year. I was able to shoot some pretty good video of the Androscoggin River at Bethel. I decided to give myself a one day deadline to shoot the video, edit it and upload it. I made it, but of course, I see things that I could have done better.
I’ve been working on this one off and on for several weeks. Color grading is not quite right, partially due to using both GoPro 8 and 9’s and partially because I don’t know what I’m doing. This video does a good job displaying the improved stabilization of the GP 9 when compared to the GP8. So why didn’t I use the GP9 more. It doesn’t send the display of what you are shooting to the iPhone, the GP8 does. Go figure, in some cases, the newer model has less capabilities than the older model.