I am smiling on the INSIDE…
Mid-April. We will maintain all of our Charlottesville connections and return often. Please consider visiting US, too!
We Are Relocating to Taos, NM
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, Composite, Wide Angle on February 21, 2016 by budbranchGood Morning, Charlottesville!
Posted in Aerial, Composite, DJI Phantom 3, HDR, RC Quadcopter on February 20, 2016 by budbranch
The Afton Inn
Posted in Aerial, DJI Phantom 3, HDR with tags aerial, HDR on February 15, 2016 by budbranch
Charlottesville, Just Before Sunrise…
Posted in Aerial, DJI Phantom 3, HDR, RC Quadcopter, Wide Angle with tags aerial, drone, HDR, multirotor on February 12, 2016 by budbranchI caught the daylight and the night lights just right…
McIntire Park
Posted in Aerial, DJI Phantom 3, HDR on February 4, 2016 by budbranch
McIntire park, looking east from 250′
I support Bernie Sanders, and I’m not stupid or unrealistic
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2016 by budbranch
Today I read for maybe the 10,000th time an assertion that supporters of Bernie Sanders are unrealistic, that Bernie Sanders supporters will all be disappointed if they elect him because he won’t be able to bring the change he’s promising, that Bernie Sanders’ policies will be “just another example of Democrats making promises they can’t keep,” and so on and so forth. And I’d like to briefly dispel a misconception about people who support Bernie Sanders as the next president of the United States:
We’re not stupid.
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Remembrance is Not Enough
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2016 by budbranchWell said, Wayne.
“Do good work” – Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom
This January 30 has been designated ‘Remembrance Day’ in honor of the astronauts who lost their lives in the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia accidents.
It is altogether fitting that we remember their dedication, bravery, and sacrifice.
But it is not enough to partake of fuzzy emotional sentiments about loss; nor is should our remembrance day devolve into a contest of ‘I remember exactly where I was when I heard’ stories.
For those of us engaged in pushing back the space frontier it means we must work to learn something from those accidents; lessons which will keep us from adding a future catastrophe to the list for some remembrance days to come.
So I ask you: what did you learn?
How about this: Pure oxygen atmosphere in a space craft may be necessary but the entire process should be approached cautiously; ignition…
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