#i remembered the timelapse feature was a thing too late into starting

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wip bc i cant get rid of the voxvel brainworms yet

+ partial coloring timelapse underneath (outing how sporadic my process is)

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Joe’s Weather World: Easing through summer (WED-7/24)

Happy Wednesday…with another very comfortable start in the KC area this morning. Unlike yesterday when we briefly touched 57° to tie a previous record low…today we missed it by a couple of degrees. The record stands at 57° set back in 2004. The forecast is overall a dry one through the weekend…but there are small chances of some rain drops out there later tomorrow or tomorrow night. The pattern for now is that we’re in NW flow and that means we need to watch for little disturbances coming down in that flow from the NW>SE. Sometimes they aren’t modeled well…and sometimes they can create little showers or sprinkles.

Forecast:

Today: Some morning clouds but otherwise mostly sunny and mild with highs 80-85°

Tonight: Fair skies and pleasant with lows 60-65°

Thursday: Partly sunny with an outside chance that some light showers or sprinkles pop up somewhere out there. Highs near 85°

Friday: Mostly sunny and warmer with highs close to 85°

Discussion:

These last few days have been marvelous and today overall will be about the same. The main relief…temperatures and especially dew points are most welcome for this time year especially.

Dew points above 65° are typical…and above 70° aren’t that unusual…above 75° catches your attention.

Dew points in the 50s in late July is pretty unusual. Here is the 7AM surface map…

Dew points in most areas are in the upper 50s to near 60°

High pressure has moved into the Plains…

Compared to average though at 8AM…we’re still sitting pretty.

Air around a surface high circulates in a clockwise manner and blows away from higher pressure. Things are moving slowly so that this air mass is sort of just recirculating across the region right now. So the air isn’t getting too modified too quickly.

That means we’re just recirculating the same nice air…and when we broaden out the view to see the dew points across a wider area…

Again remember IF you have dew points in the 60-65° range…that is really pretty OK for late July..even the folks down in Dixie are enjoying this nice air as well compared to what things are typically like!

Where are the dew points higher? How about in the deserts of AZ.

This is some monsoonal moisture that has worked it’s way into south central AZ.

There have been some storms out there, especially in the more mountainous terrain. I’ve spent some time time talking about the fire burning north of Flagstaff in northern AZ. Yesterday I showed a fascinating timelapse of what happens when a fire is hit by a heavy thunderstorm and how it reacted to the rain that fell.

#MuseumFire Evening Update July 23, 2019 pic.twitter.com/mry80Le5Z1

— Arizona News (@ArizonaNewsnet) July 24, 2019

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Just for the heck of it, here's the #MuseumFire near #Flagstaff via Sentinel-2 satellite, taken 7/22/2019 18:24 UTC (False color/Urban image). Footprint of the fire is outdated. pic.twitter.com/AmGnrFPrfA

— AI6YR (@ai6yrham) July 24, 2019

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The thunderstorm brought so much rain so quickly that there was flash flooding in the area. What the concern is is that the fire has burning through vegetation and has left a “burn scar” on the land. When the rain falls you have tremendous runoff, there’s nothing that gets absorbed so you get flooding. So while the fire was burning you also have flash flood warnings and sand bagging operations happening to try to avoid the flooding issues. Crazy.

This was amazing to watch #azwx #azfamily pic.twitter.com/OVloDCsgPA

— Royal Norman (@royalnorman) July 24, 2019

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I would imagine though it was mostly welcome up there.

So far the overall fire season in the western US seems like it’s not starting off too crazy. There was a lot of moisture out there this winter…and now that things have dried out there are concerns about what happens down the road with human/lightning caused fires in the western third of the US.

While is seems things are going OK out in the western US (for now)…look what’s happening in AK.

#SuomiNPP continues to keep an eye on one of the worst wildfire seasons in Alaska. Over 2 million acres have burned so far. The 2 largest fires, Hess Creek and Chalkyitsik, can be seen in the far left and far right of this S-NPP image. More here: https://t.co/6g4zcZokfs pic.twitter.com/V3nr8axegI

— Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) (@JPSSProgram) July 24, 2019

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AK has been crazy warm (for them) all year long.

On the other side of the country 2 tornadoes hit the Cape Cod area yesterday including this dramatic video of a motel losing it’s roof from the strong winds. Wow!

Wow – incredible video of today's tornado from West Yarmouth. #nbcct pic.twitter.com/zJElc9At2h

— Ryan Hanrahan (@ryanhanrahan) July 23, 2019

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and on the other side of the Atlantic intense and potentially deadly heat continues in Europe. More all time record highs were set there yesterday and more may happen over the next few hours today. The temperature anomalies (up at about 5,000 feet) are pretty impressive in that part of the world. Remember most don’t have air conditioning there.

#France set new temperature records on Tuesday as temperatures topped 40°C. Many more heat records are expected in the next 2 days in countries including France, Germany, Belgium, NL, and possibly UK, during Europe's 2nd intense #heatwave of the year.#ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/PoAM3h4Ku3

— WMO | OMM (@WMO) July 24, 2019

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Second blast of intense heat on the way tomorrow across parts of Europe. Here's the current records v forecasted highs:

Netherlands: 38.6 / 40C

Belgium: 38.6 / 40C

Luxembourg: 37.9 / 40C

Germany: 40.3 / 40C

France: 46 / 40C#ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/zIGS8AIATt

— Steffan Griffiths (@SteffGriff) July 24, 2019

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This is their 2nd major heat wave this summer. Some relief comes over the next few days (especially over the weekend) for a pretty decent swath of western Europe at least.

Well I think I’ve covered a lot of bases and a lot of terrain! I want to give you a heads up that I’ll be taking my annual golf vacation/trip to Arizona starting Saturday. So odds are there won’t be blogs for about 10 days or so. I’ll get another one or two done this week before I leave though.

Our feature photo comes from Lesa Wardrip‎

Joe

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3D Test Timelapse

I have never really done any 3D work before, apart from I think in my 1st year undergrad where we followed a tutorial to create a biped character and created a walk cycle. But I can’t remember how I did any of it so I had to start from scratch again.

I found a Maya tutorial for beginners here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tElsku3aKQI&t=3001s that would walk me through the basics of modelling, texturing and lighting a 3D scene. I also decided to document my learning by screen recording my progress. The video was originally around 3 hours long and has a few pauses where I was either watching the tutorial or doing something else around the house. Towards the end of the video I got stuck with the rendering process, and as I noticed the video was over 3 hours I decided to stop it. There wasn’t that much progress missed out from the video, just a lot of troubleshooting which took me a couple of hours. I reduced the time of the video to 10 minutes by speeding up the footage to make it somewhat watchable.

So I began watching the tutorial and working through the project and most of it went smoothly. I managed the modelling side easy enough and the tutorial did a good job of making everything easy to understand. The first problem I came across is that I struggled to even select an object, for some reason when I tried to click on an object it would just select the large box that I created as a room. This became very frustrating when I was trying to texture the ‘Projector’ blue, you can see from the video that I kept texturing the room blue instead. I solved this issue by hiding the room object, but then I struggled to figure out how to unhide it.

From here on there were a few little niggles that I came across, even though I was following the tutorial to a tee, some things just wouldn’t work they way it was explaining. I put this down to the tutorial being based on Maya 2016 and I was using the 2018 version. I had to dive into the comment section of the video and saw that other people were having the same problems. Through looking at what other people had written, a bit of googling, and some trial and error I managed to sort everything out.

The main problem I came across was when it came to lighting and rendering. When I first rendered the scene (which can take a while) nothing appeared. All that I could see was a black screen. The 2018 version had updated renderers from the 2016 version so I put it down to this. I ended up increasing the intensity of the lights, but sometimes it would still render a black screen. I discovered by accident that if I zoom into the scene a bit more then the objects would show correctly, but one mouse wheel turn to zoom out then everything would disappear. I’ve still no idea why this happened and that is why the composition of the final image is like how it is.

There was also a glitch with the Earth where there are chunks missing out of it on the top right side. I figured this was down to the light not touching certain faces in the sphere but I didn’t know how to correct this as it didn’t happen in the tutorial.

I would have liked to have spent more time on this but it was getting late and the rendering took too much time to keep tweaking the lighting and seeing how it looks. That’s the main problem that I had with this experience, that it isn’t easy to see what the scene actually looks like. You have to render the seen to see what it really looks like and it took around 20 seconds each time.

Going forward I will need to get a lot more practice using Maya as the features are so vast, but it was great learning something new and it is definitely something that I want to carry on in the future. At this moment in time I need to figure out a quick and easy technique to create 3D animation.

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Behind the Scenes - Wedding video shoot -Margaret River, Dunsborough, Perth Western Australia.

Behind the Scenes - Wedding video shoot -Margaret River, Dunsborough, Perth Western Australia.

welcome to our exclusive in shop productions behind the scenes so this is just going to be a little bit of a insight into our wedding work just so you can see what what goes into it we've actually got a destination wedding for this one so this is the day before the wedding we're heading out today we've got all the equipment packed up so the big thing with destination wedding especially is making sure you've just got all the equipment we we need because when we're away there's no way of picking up anything extra so a lot of equipment checks we've got probably about 150 different pieces of equipment we don't have any extra crew for this shoot so as far it's going to be me with the camera on the end of my arm so quite doggedly shot but just a bit of a glimpse into what we do ok we're now well on our way to the wedding this is actually the wedding of Caitlin's home and they've are they having a wedding down in Dunn's around which is about three hours away we probably get to do maybe two or three destination weddings here said this one's a little bit different because we've got an extra crew member this time it's sitting in the back for this we're going to be importing babysitter's Kristen's parents are driving down tomorrow and they're going to look after jasmine and then weave these weddings we always stay the night before and the night of the wedding is because what the weekdays such an intense day normally start late night finishes it's way too late to be driving back we really enjoy doing down south weddings especially done for a bug or river region because there's so much to see in such a small area within 20 minutes or less you can see beautiful features with these amazing rocks and wine region there's beautiful tall trees and and then yeah you've got the beautiful grapevines it's just lovely and and we get so inspired when we're down there compared to when you're in the city because you just seeing things that you just can't see anywhere else the other really cool thing about going through the wedding's our day before with these destination weddings is we can get what we call b-roll fridge which is basically extra shots to fill in to help tell the story so things like timelapses and extra shots of locations we might not have time otherwise to do and what I've done now is I've left Kristin and Jasmine back at the hotel because jasmine had enough car time I think so I've come down to their actual rehearsal now we wouldn't normally attend the rehearsals but we think we might be a little bit pressed for time tomorrow so I've come down I thought i might check it out and get a few extra shots which i probably won't be able to do otherwise this is actually a really cool location this is our called the secret garden and it's perched next to a vineyard and the secret guns actually someone's backyard that year days just a little bit hot integers I'm titles tomorrow Oh tomorrow will be fantasy now I've got a few shots at the rehearsal there's actually it's very hot at the moments about 40 degrees and down here and Perth and most of WA its ways very dry...

See more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNNfVUUftg

Precisely what are the Advantages of Employing the services of a Skilled professional Wedding Photographer?

This information describes about the real benefits of seeking the services of a specialist Asian wedding photographer when it comes to your wedding day. The most precious day of anyone's lifespan is most definitely their wedding. It is an occasion when two souls meet to commence a brand-new life. The charm of wedding event is that it is able to introduce excitement, enjoyment, love, delight, smile and tear all emotion in your heart at the same time. The very best approach to catch every one of these types of memories of a wedding day is really to choose a qualified professional wedding photographer. The experienced wedding photographers serve to help you in recording the treasured instants in an unique and breathtaking manner. Asian wedding event, most especially Indian wedding is not a one day occasion. There are numerous rituals and ceremonies, that finish approximately in a few days. So, there is not a wonder that the variety of precious memories will accomplish without an epic photo album. Employing the services of a specialist wedding photographer is a shrewd move to make certain that every moment of your wedding is grabbed in a distinct a stunning way. Many of the people do not enlist the services of a professional photographer so as to save their cash. Nevertheless, hiring a professional photographer can easily supply you benefits in a variety of ways. Recording magnificent and fantastic photos is not something that anyone can possibly do completely without skills and appropriate tools. Professionalism and trust is among the greatest features of hiring a professional Asian wedding event photographer UK. The qualified professional photographers come with a very good awareness about the basic guidelines of photography. Aside from that, they are installed with all the gear and extras required for capturing natural looking and stunning photographs. The specialists capture every photo manually in order to provide awesome memorabilia of priceless moments. The wedding event photographer will definitely provide careful attention to each and every ritual so as to immortalize each and every moment of your special day. Whenever hiring a specialist wedding photographer, you can rest assure that you will acquire only superior top quality photographs of your wedding day. They take care of all the variables and figure out ways to capture the subject matter in the best possible natural aspect. One other feature of choosing a professional wedding photographer is valid years of experience. The expert photographers come with hands-on experience in a variety of types of wedding photography. This allows them to help their customers in choosing the correct theme, colour and also design of their wedding. The competent photographers provide a wide range of offers for them to satisfy the varied needs of the customers throughout their finances. Moreover, they personalize the package as per your necessity and requirement. The photographer will definitely also make it possible for their clients to conserve their special day moments in varieties of formats. Most qualified professional photographers will deliver a vast array of photography choices to go with. The bride and groom can pick from photos printed on a variety of brilliantly coloured papers, a complete wedding album or in an electronic format like CDs and also DVDs. And so forth, whenever you employ a competent wedding photographer you will acquire photos that will certainly really help you remember your special day for many years.

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Behind the Scenes - Wedding video shoot -Margaret River, Dunsborough, Perth Western Australia.

Behind the Scenes - Wedding video shoot -Margaret River, Dunsborough, Perth Western Australia.

welcome to our exclusive in shop productions behind the scenes so this is just going to be a little bit of a insight into our wedding work just so you can see what what goes into it we've actually got a destination wedding for this one so this is the day before the wedding we're heading out today we've got all the equipment packed up so the big thing with destination wedding especially is making sure you've just got all the equipment we we need because when we're away there's no way of picking up anything extra so a lot of equipment checks we've got probably about 150 different pieces of equipment we don't have any extra crew for this shoot so as far it's going to be me with the camera on the end of my arm so quite doggedly shot but just a bit of a glimpse into what we do ok we're now well on our way to the wedding this is actually the wedding of Caitlin's home and they've are they having a wedding down in Dunn's around which is about three hours away we probably get to do maybe two or three destination weddings here said this one's a little bit different because we've got an extra crew member this time it's sitting in the back for this we're going to be importing babysitter's Kristen's parents are driving down tomorrow and they're going to look after jasmine and then weave these weddings we always stay the night before and the night of the wedding is because what the weekdays such an intense day normally start late night finishes it's way too late to be driving back we really enjoy doing down south weddings especially done for a bug or river region because there's so much to see in such a small area within 20 minutes or less you can see beautiful features with these amazing rocks and wine region there's beautiful tall trees and and then yeah you've got the beautiful grapevines it's just lovely and and we get so inspired when we're down there compared to when you're in the city because you just seeing things that you just can't see anywhere else the other really cool thing about going through the wedding's our day before with these destination weddings is we can get what we call b-roll fridge which is basically extra shots to fill in to help tell the story so things like timelapses and extra shots of locations we might not have time otherwise to do and what I've done now is I've left Kristin and Jasmine back at the hotel because jasmine had enough car time I think so I've come down to their actual rehearsal now we wouldn't normally attend the rehearsals but we think we might be a little bit pressed for time tomorrow so I've come down I thought i might check it out and get a few extra shots which i probably won't be able to do otherwise this is actually a really cool location this is our called the secret garden and it's perched next to a vineyard and the secret guns actually someone's backyard that year days just a little bit hot integers I'm titles tomorrow Oh tomorrow will be fantasy now I've got a few shots at the rehearsal there's actually it's very hot at the moments about 40 degrees and down here and Perth and most of WA its ways very dry...

See more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNNfVUUftg

What exactly are the Positive aspects of Seeking the services of a Skilled professional Wedding Photographer?

This information describes about the perks of hiring a professional Asian wedding photographer with regards to your big day. The most exquisite day of anyone's entire life is surely their marriage ceremony. It is a time when two hearts meet to commence a brand new life. The personal magnetism of wedding event is that it may bring excitement, enjoyment, romance, happiness, smile as well as tear all emotion in your heart at the same time. The most suitable method to catch every one of these types of memories of a wedding is to enlist the services of a specialist wedding photographer. The professional wedding photographers enable you in capturing the treasured instants in an original as well as breathtaking method. Asian wedding ceremony, particularly Indian wedding is definitely not a one day function. There are a number of rituals and ceremonies, which finish at minimum in a few days. Thus, there is not a wonder that the collection of delightful memories will definitely accomplish without an epic photo album. Employing the services of a professional wedding photographer is a clever move to ensure that each and every instance of your big day is immortalized in a distinct a breathtaking way. Most of the people do not enlist the services of a professional photographer so as to save on their cash. However, employing a professional photographer can deliver you advantages in a number of ways. Immortalizing stunning and awesome photographs is actually not something that anyone may do entirely without needing abilities and right tools. Professionalism and trust is one of the greatest rewards of choosing a professional Asian wedding photographer UK. The experienced photographers provide a reliable know-how about the basic rules of photography. Furthermore, they are equipped with all the resources and accessories really needed for catching natural looking and wonderful photographs. The experts catch every photo manually in order to create outstanding memorabilia of priceless moments. The wedding day photographer will likely provide very careful attention to every ritual in order to immortalize every single instance of your big day. When working with a proficient wedding photographer, you can feel confident that you will get only unrivalled quality photographs of your wedding day. They look after all the elements and identify ways to seize the subject in the best possible natural effect. An additional benefit of choosing a specialist wedding photographer is confirm able practical experience. The qualified photographers provide hands-on prior experience in different sorts of wedding photography. This makes it easy for them to assist their customers in deciding on the correct theme, colour as well as style of their wedding event. The qualified photographers offer various package deals so as to comply with the different needs of the clients within their finances. On top of that, they modify the package deal as per your necessity and criteria. The photographer will also enable their clients to secure their wedding memories in wide ranges of forms. Almost all professional photographers will supply a vast array of photography choices to go with. The couple can go with photos printed on various brilliantly coloured papers, a complete wedding album or in an electronic format just like CDs and DVDs. So, when you employ a specialist photographer you will obtain photos that will certainly assist you remember your big day for a number of years.