{"id":540,"date":"2017-12-01T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-12-01T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:07:14","slug":"winter-is-coming-im-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/winter-is-coming-im-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is coming (I&#8217;m sure)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cool, not so cold. But you can tell winter is on it&#8217;s way. Evenings like tonight look very much like winter with the sun so low in the sky and the wispy high cirrus clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I finished up a project on my #2 tower. On my way out there I set up a time lapse sequence to capture the sunset as I worked out there before the sun set. I&#8217;ll never get used to the sun going down at 4:30 pm. By 5pm it&#8217;s dark and we are inside. I have to remind myself that in 22 days the sun will be headed back up north a few minutes each day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-540-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017_11_30_sunset_time_lapse_h264-420_720p_30_MQ.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017_11_30_sunset_time_lapse_h264-420_720p_30_MQ.mp4\">https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017_11_30_sunset_time_lapse_h264-420_720p_30_MQ.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mostly been posting on Instagram lately but I don&#8217;t like how it renders my photographs at all. It&#8217;s very hard to fit a 16:9 ratio image into a 1:1 hole. I have no idea why they make it so hard to put a picture on a picture platform. Ha. I also heard they are thinking about a &#8220;Re-Gramming&#8221; option. This would allow people to take someone else&#8217;s content and, like Facebook, &#8220;re-post&#8221; it on to your own timeline. If they do that, it&#8217;ll likely be the last time I use the platform. At least now people have to make the effort to take their own pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Helen was home from school last week so we took the opportunity to go get the Christmas tree for the season. We&#8217;ve been going to the same place for many years. Each year the picking gets a little slimmer. This year was no different.<\/p>\n<p>We did manage to find a nice tree to fit into our home but it took some time. We also created a bunch of video but the first cut of the video was quite long and the file very large so I&#8217;m not going to post it here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-544\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-11-25-16.15.25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-544 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-11-25-16.15.25-e1512102587184-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-11-25-16.15.25-e1512102587184-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-11-25-16.15.25-e1512102587184-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-11-25-16.15.25-e1512102587184-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas tree hunt 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been building a new flying wing lately. This is my first wing. I&#8217;ve covered mine in laminate so it will survive a few crashes and fly a little faster. This guy is set up for FPV (First Person View) and has a spot for a video camera like a GoPro to record the flights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2017-11-30-23.55.05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2017-11-30-23.55.05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2017-11-30-23.55.05.png 787w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2017-11-30-23.55.05-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2017-11-30-23.55.05-768x472.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RMRC Recruit Flying Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My plan is to mostly fly it visually until I can get comfortable flying it with my FPV goggles like I do with my drone. This guy is super fast and will do aerobatics with ease. But I&#8217;ll leave the cameras off of it until I can reliably fly it without putting it into the trees. It has three gyro modes so I can fly this with an autopilot of sorts to keep it stable. It&#8217;s amazing what you can put in such a small package.<\/p>\n<p>After I finish this guy the next plane I&#8217;ll be refurbishing a gas powered biplane that I bought in the summer at an auction. It&#8217;ll be my first gas powered plane for about 20 years. The last one I famously crashed in China (no video). But back then the avionics were horrible. I&#8217;m going to gut the device and put in all new electronics inside that I&#8217;ll use to control the plane from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve had a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cool, not so cold. But you can tell winter is on it&#8217;s way. Evenings like tonight look very much like winter with the sun so low in the sky and the wispy high cirrus clouds. Tonight I finished up a project on my #2 tower. On my way out there I set up a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/winter-is-coming-im-sure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter is coming (I&#8217;m sure).&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14,15,17,16,22,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-family","category-hobbies","category-home","category-photography","category-public","category-radio-controlled-aircraft","category-time-lapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}