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Recounting the Crash and Rescue of My Skydio 2 Drone

In the world of drone photography, accidents can happen even to the most experienced pilots. Almost two years ago, I had a heart-stopping moment when my beloved Skydio 2 drone crashed unexpectedly. We planned on capturing some sweet autonomous flight videos of his VW Golf R, but something ended up horribly wrong. In June 2021,…

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Reach Your Creative Potential With Meditation

Introduction Hello, my name is Graydon and I am the founder of this website / blog. Do you wanna learn how to be more creative? This is for people who want to take their creativity to the next level. Many of you may know me from my previous blog posts, in which I wrote regularly…

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Photographing Will Hibbitts’ Album Artwork For Everything

Will Hibbitts and I have been good friends nearing ten years. He came to me wanting album artwork with a focus on a landscape and a couple (out of focus) in the foreground. We set out to take this picture with a tripod and Sony Mirrorless Camera. Due to COVID times, we decided to trigger…

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Fall Colors Around Lake Wisconsin

Fall has hit Lake Wisconsin and surrounding areas! All of the photos in this post were edited with Luminar 4 by Skylum. You can download a free trial of the software on their website by visiting this link. Fall Colors in Lake Wisconsin, Wisconsin Tap on the image for a larger, higher-resolution version of the…

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Fall Colors Have Hit Columbia County

Now is a great time to get your favorite car out, cruise and enjoy the fall colors in the Columbia County area! It’s raining a bit right now, but according to Google Weather it should clear up about an hour before sunset. Fall Colors in Pardeeville, WI It was a bit nerveracking due to the…

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FALL COLORS ARE HERE!… and so are the Teslas

Tesla Club Wisconsin Fall Meet 2020 We had an excellent day for our meeting in Stevens Point, Wisconsin with great fall colors. 🙂 The whole group made procurement to ensure the safety of everyone at the meeting by social distancing and wearing masks. Tap on the image for a larger, higher-resolution version of the image!…

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Portage Has Reached 75% Fall Color Levels

Silver Lake Tap on the image for a larger, higher resolution version of the image! 🙂 I used extra Dehaze with Luminar 4 to bring this photo to life. Whenever you take a series of bracketed photos for HDR with the Mavic 2 Pro, you end up with exposure shots with a stack of photos…

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Technology Updates

Fixing WordPress and Switching to OpenLiteSpeed!

My website was mostly snappy from the user side, but the back-end functions design, write, save were very slow. It took between 6 and 12 + seconds per page load. Even with small changes, this slowly adds up as a switch to OpenLiteSpeed was next! Especially if your edits were not saved and you start…

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Luminar 4.2 Update Release Notes

COVID-19 We are embracing a new way of operating remotely and utilizing this opportunity to catch up on pending tasks, all while working to minimize the impacts and disruptions caused by COVID-19. Our sincere thoughts go out to you and your loved ones, and we hope that you remain safe, healthy, and in good spirits.…

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Replace That Meh Sky With Skylum Luminar 4

Here is a collection of different skies created using Skylum Luminar 4 new tool, Sky Replacement. These are all built into the photo editing app. Also there are 3 different editions with bonuses. January 21 Update: Luminar 3.2.0 is here!