Videos
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Wild win in 2-0 shootout! 🏒
Tammy and I got a 360 video at the TeamSPS Social tonight!
Was fun to get to put a hole in 2 feet of ice.
Chicago Coin’s Basketball Champ. 🏀🕹️
Captured the Tesla Coil at the Museum of Science and Industry at 120 fps and playing back at 1/4th speed. Super cool. ⚡️
Serious storm system coming through clearing out this incredible heat and humidity that we’ve had the last two days. There is a lot of energy in the sky. Hoping the 1" hail doesn’t come to pass. Just got very dark.
Floating down Minnehaha Creek in South Minneapolis.
Walking Canoe Bay's Gardens
The gardens at Canoe Bay were a highlight of our stay there. I tried to capture it a bit with this 7 minute video walk around the path.
Mazie took this fun handheld time-lapse of me making a round of smash burgers tonight. 🍔
Raccoons v Webcam
With Cannon Lake flooded I had repositioned one of the UniFi G4 Instant cameras so it was pointing right at the boat.
I’ve also been battling with raccoons at our place. This summer I had 6 of them trapped and taken away. But there are still more.
And on the very first night of having this camera in position the raccoons decided to play with it.
Thankfully later in the day the lawn care folks showed up and amazingly one of them put the camera back in place for me. Thank you! We’ll see if the raccoons leave it alone.
Sounds on Dalkey Island.
A fish riding a bicycle! (at Guinness Experience in Dublin)
Hawk Walk at Ashford Castle
If I was living hundreds of years ago I would like to have been a person that hunted with a hawk.
On our way to Ballyshannon we stopped at Ashford Castle to experience a Hawk Walk. After completely missing the car park on the first round through we found ourselves back outside the castle grounds getting more thorough directions from the gatekeeper who found us quite amusing. The second time through the gorgeous estate we found it. The castle and estate were amazing on their own. The Guinness family owned it at one point.
We made our way on a nice 10 minute walk through the grounds to the Ireland School of Falconry and started our Hawk Walk with a tour of the facility and seeing some of the 32 hawks that they have there. The Harris Hawks that we would walk with are unique in that they hunt like a pack. They work cooperatively.
We all took turns with Mazie and Tyler starting out with the hawks. We took Walnut and Chestnut out for the walk. The hawks came to the glove quick and obviously knew that the morsels of rat were waiting for them.
We went out on the walk and it was incredible to have these hawks pacing along with us as we went. Anytime you raised the glove they would immediately come. We would then launch them off again and they would fly away. In between they would survey the area and swoop in around us joining along on the walk. Their speed was amazing. They can routinely go 60 miles an hour.
An amazing experience made even more incredible with Ashford Castle as the backdrop. Photos don’t capture this experience that well but the videos really do. The power and grace when the hawk lands on the glove was inspiring.
Tyler in Flight Simulator
While on Milwaukee Spring Break we took a short drive 40 miles south to Gurnee, Illinois to visit Extreme Flight Simulation. Tyler wanted to try a real flight simulator and EFS has a 737-800 simulator that you can do a “no experience” session with a co-pilot. Tyler had a blast. I was a little jealous that I didn’t get to fly it myself. Below are some videos of the experience.
Tyler landing at Chicago O’Hare
Tyler taking off from Tokyo Narita
Here is a photo of him taking the pilot seat right before starting the simulation.
Part of the Milwaukee Spring Break collection.
Lake Superior, Grand Marais.
360 video from the #TeamSPS 2024 Social!
Annual tradition at Renaissance Festival — Ring the bell! Dinged it 2 of 5 times. 💪
One of many waterfalls along the trail to Soglio.