Using an 8k camera on a drone with 2 operators - one flying the drone and the other working the camera made for some fun footage. Thanks again to Nick Karnuth for helping me out with such great camera work.
Sunrise in Mpls
Sunrise at the Gold Medal Park in Minneapolis.
Those apartments must have a wonderful view of the river and the Stone Arch bridge. Cool spot.
Drones and rain
Most drones don't fare well in the rain. But it is handy to be able to put a drone up and see where the rain is and know if it will miss me or not.
These showers were moving through every few minutes, but in between made for some pleasant skies and lighting.
Soccer under the lights in Austin, Mn
Using the full frame Inspire 3 drone makes filming at night so much easier. With its great low light performance the files come out much cleaner and sharper than those from smaller drones.
SJU Football
The St. Johns football season has started off with a OT win for the home team.
Everyone wears red for the homecoming game in a few weeks - I’m going to have to get a photo of the stadium and full stands I think.
Filming around Fort Snelling State Park
A few clips from around Bdote, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers.
Many Dakota people see this as a sacred place of creation. The island where the rivers come together is Pike Island, which is part of the Fort Snelling State Park. Historic Fort Snelling sits on the bluffs overlooking the rivers.
Being close to MSP airport and State Park land getting the necessary permissions to fly a drone here can be a challenge. I started in on the paperwork about a month before this flight - we got lucky with some great clouds and no wind.
Working with animals
Working with animals can be a bit tricky. This good girl, however, nailed the shot on the first take.
She did look at the camera at the end of the shot which wasn’t in the script, but we decided to cut her some slack, pull out the treats and call it a wrap.
A little lighting...
The 5th Ave Block in St. Cloud had some new lighting revealed tonight at the end of the Earth Day 5k race.
Blocking off the street to traffic, putting out some tables in front of the restaurants, playing music, adding the lights as a “ceiling” and all of a sudden this is a pretty pleasant place to spend a summer evening.
Good job to the folks behind getting this done.
Real Estate
Usually I am asked to film commercial buildings or residential properties, but sometimes the property is an empty lot.
In these cases adding some graphics, either to a photo or motions graphics to a video can really help show off a property better.
Here’s a simple recent example - without the lines it would be very difficult to know where the property was.
Water Tower
Another view of the new St. Cloud water tower.
Colon Cancer Awareness
The new LED lights allow the color of the water tower on the south side of St. Cloud to be easily changed.
It was purple during the Viking's big run a month ago. This evening it was blue as part of a Colon Cancer awareness event.
Looking over Lake George
Some of the Hockey Day Mn 2018 festivities. Hot air balloon rides, skating on the lake, live music - fun stuff
Hockey Day Minnesota
A crew putting on the last layer of ice for HDM 2018 in St. Cloud, MN.
St. Cloud Hospital - 2017
In early December the lights are turned on at the St. Cloud Hospital - makes for quite the nighttime sight. As well there are carriage rides, a petting zoo and other activities. Here is a short video of the evening.
Aircraft Maintenance
This is a small field just south of St. Cloud, MN that served as the inspiration for the airport in the movie "Planes" - the sequel to the Cars franchise.
Incredibly cool. Bob, his two sons, two great dogs and an uncountable number of cats in the midst of hundreds of planes.
Sartell's new website
I recently did a photo series for the City of Sartell, Mn. They ended up as the background photos for each page. Great idea to combine pictures of the city with the information they are trying to share.
https://www.everythingsartell.com/
Corn to Solar
An example of a farmer taking a so-so field for crops and converting it to a great field for solar.
Summertime by George 2017 - last concert
The Fabulous Armadillos finished out the 2017 SBG season on a beautiful evening in St. Cloud.
One of the biggest crowds I'd seen.
These three sure had great seats atop the ladder of a St. Cloud Fire Department truck!
Green Energy
Most of my green energy work this far has has been with solar fields - using the IR camera to inspect for faulty panels.
Yesterday though I had the chance to use the IR camera on some wind turbines - documenting baseline temperature levels so that a drone and IR camera in the future could be used in a preventative manner - finding part failures before they happened. Cool stuff.
These are such impressive structures to be near - the whoosh of the blades going by is just mezmerizing.
St. Cloud Wastewater Treatment Plant
This week I had the opportunity to film and photograph the wastewater treatment plant on the south side of St. Cloud, MN.
One of the benefits of drone work is getting to see places such as this - I honestly never knew it existed, but it is such an interesting piece of the city's infrastructure.
