Video

Fordyce Falls via Lake Spaulding

A short video I created from photos I have taken at TMWA over the years. It's not hard to take a good picture when you are surrounded by so interesting things.

Reno, Nevada is having a particularly beautiful autumn in 2016. This video is a brief look at the sites and sounds in encountered during a walk on 10-29-16.

A Boston Terrier will be a Boston Terrier, they can't help themselves.

If I were to fall off a flume and my life at Truckee Meadows Water Authority flashed before my eyes, it would look a lot like this video. Two-and-a-half years of my at-work photography squished into four minutes and 40 seconds.

The 1,200-ft Fleish Tunnel Project is the result of a need to protect an exposed section of TMWA's hydroelectric flume system from costly damage due to rockfall. This video was produced to both document the tunnel's construction and celebrate the project's "hole-through day"-the point at which the excavation stops being a "hole" and becomes a true tunnel with an opening on each end.

Ice fighting" keeps TMWA's hydroelectric plants on line, which minimizes operational costs and helps keep water rates low for our customers.

My project for today was to build a do-it-yourself steadycam mount for a GoPro camera. Here's a before-and-after clip to show you the difference. It's a huge improvement but I still have issues with lateral sway. I'm sure more practice will help but I also expect to do a bit more tinkering in the shop before this is fully dialed in.

I just couldn't resist the lure of the iMovie, movie trailer templates. Cliche? Yes, but my mom was impressed. Ice fighting itself is actually kind of interesting. Truckee Meadows Water Authority has to send guys to literally hammer and scrape ice of their hydroelectric plants' water intakes to keep them from icing up.

My first attempt at time lapse video. Nothing really happens but I learned a couple things about shutter intervals and frame rates.

Video instructions on how to fix a loose tilt steering assembly in a 1991 GMC Suburban. NOTE: The website with the cut-away views that I mention in the video has been deleted but I found the same documentation in this pdf: www.crankshaftcoalition.com/wiki/images/d/d6/Jazzman_Steering_Rack_Rebuild.pdf

Multiple accidents in both directions, on 395 in South Reno, just south of the South Meadows Parkway exit.