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Episode 399 - Capturing Lightning Bolts! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. This is Stephen
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Right, you know, listening to tech talk Radio. Yeah, some alung
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that line. Yeah, I guess that was it. Alright, let's go
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with it. I love it. I'll say it anyway. All right,
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this is Stephen Wright and you're listening to tech Talk Radio. But you know
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I've already been saying that I love you, Steven. Welcome to another episode
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of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor. We got a lot of fun
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stuff to talk about today. This is this this show. I know Justin
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and Matt aren't able to make it tonight and Slick wasn't able to make it
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either, but we've got a packed show for you and we have some fun.
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Just this last week it was busy, but it was fun and it's
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just gonna be a great show. I will tell you. If you love
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photography, you'll definitely love this. Uh, this episode is going to be
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lit. I like that. I like that excitement. But you know,
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last week we talked about the Apple Watches, and I'm using version nine of
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the Apple Watch, and it has transformed the fact that I never I've had
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other watches before, and I've never just kept them on. I can't take
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I don't want to take this thing off. I was never a watch person
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growing up. Yeah, I had watches, didn't like them, never wore
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a watch. When I got my Apple my Series three back in twenty seventeen
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or twenty eighteen. At twenty eighteen, I wore it. It was it
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was awesome, right I had it. I was able to see the time,
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the weather, right, all this stuff is great. I have a
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story that revolves around the Apple Watch. All right, So Friday night I
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had to work late. So I was at work and Haylen was home.
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She had gone to pick up Max from daycare, and I get a phone
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call from her. Usually when I get a phone call, it's like something's
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like she needs my attention right away, right, like she'll text you.
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Yeah. She usually texted me Yeah. She picks ups and goes. So
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I have a little bit of a I got home from daycare, I put
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Max in the house, I shut the door to the garage. I grabbed
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Daniel out of the car, and the door is locked. Oh my lord,
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Max has locked me out of the house. Oh my gosh. Max
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was able to turn the dead bolt on the door just enough that Kaylen couldn't
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open it, and Max is inside by himself, by himself. Oh my
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lord, Caylen has the baby. But she had put her purse, which
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had her phone in it, in the house. Wait, okay, so
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she called me from her watch. Oh look at that, because her phone
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was her watch was connected to the Wi Fi. Well, it was close
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enough to her phone anyways, So she called me from her watch. I
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don't know, I don't know what to do. My neighbors weren't home,
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so I hung up with her. I called the Sheriff's department non emergency number
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and they set the fire department over. Oh my god, the firebug department
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shows up. They find we had opened up some of the windows this spring
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because it was nice out, so thankfully we'd left one unlocked. So a
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firefighter pulled the screen off, opened the ground, you know. So we
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had a firefighter climb in through our window into the house, grabbed Max,
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opened the garage door, and everything was fine. Oh my god, that's
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my Apple watch. Stories that Caylen had to call me. Thankfully she was
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wearing it, although she would have had to go to the neighbor's house,
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knock on some doors or something. Well, Max's in the house. So
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I will share some of the videos from my wives cams of the firefighter in
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the house of the Max in the house trying to get a pout, you
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know, because I told Calen's like, look, I'm sure Max is gonna
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be fine. He's either playing with his cars or trying to get a pouch
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off of the counter. Well, he got a pouch off the counter for
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one of his fruit pouches. So right, a little frustrating story, you
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know, a lesson learned. But the keys that Klen has in her purse
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don't have a key for the dead bowl, only for the handle of the
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door, not the dead bowl, so she wasn't able to unlock the de
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Bult anyways, so resolved in like twenty minutes. Everybody was fine. But
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if she if she didn't have the Apple Watch and it wasn't paired with the
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phone. And I want people to understand this because there's still is confusion about
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this. I've had a couple of people ask me this week about it.
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The cellular add on, you didn't You don't have to have the cellular add
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on if you're close to your phone, if you're within range, or if
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your photo is connected to a local Wi Fi, right, like if your
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photo is connected to your house WiFi, you will still work through the Wi
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Fi through iye messaging and things like that. There are limited functions you can't
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use. But so if she wouldn't have had her watch on, she would
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have had to go to the neighbor's house to call. Probably she probably would
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have called nine one one at that point. But you know, so the
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fire department Lester Heart's clay fire here in South in Granger. They're just on
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the street. So they were here, they were here. It was like
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they were there in like three minutes. It was right. Well. One
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of the features I found out about this week, Sean is my daughter came
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to visit and she's got an Apple Watch as well, and we went to
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uh Costco, all right, and so we're walking around Costco and she told
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me use the walkie talkie feature if you need to reach me. And I
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said, what's the wakie talkie feature? I had no idea what it is.
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So on your watch, you can connect with contacts that have an Apple
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Watch and you can send them a like an invite, so that way if
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you want to instead of having to call them, pick up your phone and
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call them. You can actually just use the walkie talkie feature on it and
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just send a quick little voice message to say, hey, I'm over here
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by technology or I'm over here by the donuts and everything. So that just
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makes it easier when you're shopping too. So I'm gonna channel my Interustine and
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say Apple didn't come up with that first. They didn't because no Nokia had
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the chirpy, which is exactly the same function you're doing with the walkie talkie.
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It's just between only you know, the chirp. The push to talk
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was only between next All users, and this is only between Apple users.
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So this is the same functionality. It's just funny to think about, right,
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Yeah, So I'm that's my inter justice. That was your Introjustine.
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Justin would have been rolling his eyes anytime you have something to say. But
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yeah, well that's a good story though. I'm glad it came out good
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and at least Max even understand what he did. Yeah, so you can
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tell because on the video you can hear because Max likes to say things like
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Mama, where are you and things like that, And he tried to open
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the door and he couldn't, and then you could tell he got mad that
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the door wasn't opening and Caitlyn was trying to talk to him through the door
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and things like that. So he kind of understood. But when Caitlyn opened
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to the front door after the fire department was there and Max saw the fire
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truck, he lost his mind and just bolted out the front door of the
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fire truck. D he loves fire truck. Well, they didn't come in
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with the lights blazing, right because they called the non emergency line, but
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still fire truck in the front yard. It was a comical glad everybody's okay.
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Nobody was hurt. Nobody was, but it's just we already have copies
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of the keys made, like we're already back to square one here, So
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it's just a life lesson that was a little frustrating. So now this past
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week you've got a chance to experience and a lot of us, even in
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Arizona, got a chance to experience the northern lights. Yeah, so Noah
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issued a solar magnetic store warning, which is the first time they've done that
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in like twenty years. A lot of people, So KP nine is the
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highest rating I've ever experienced. For the scale KP is the solar scale that
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they measure the whatever the solar stuff coming off the sun. We knew it
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was gonna be crazy. Yeah, And I've shot the northern lights a ton.
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You guys have seen some of my pictures from north and northern Michigan.
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I've shot them a lot. This is the farthest south I've ever seen them,
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and I'm I'm in Granger, Indiana. I also saw them when I
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was in South Bend, a little bit further to the east or to the
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west, I mean, And they were better than the times that some of
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the times I've seen them in Northern Michigan. Wow, Friday night, and
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this is I want to tell this part of it too, because had I
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not had to come home from work for this max lockout, I would have
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not remembered to grab my camera bag. Oh. So then I went back
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to campus to finish some work because I had to prep for a show that
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I was doing Saturday. When we're were out striking some equipment at the baseball
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facility because we were done with the baseball game that evening, we just looked
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up and it was like whoa, and you could just see him overhead so
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you're able to with the naked eye. All right, cool with the naked
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eye with the pillars and the curtain they call them curtains that look like they're
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moving, and it was I was like, this is incredible. So we
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went to my truck, grabbed my camera, went up on top of the
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the stadium and shot some pictures from up there. Uh. Those pictures are
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available on our blog tech talk ready dot com. And I got some pictures
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with touchdown Jesus in them, and I have to edit some more. But
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so then I was like, oh, this is this is great. And
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then they kind of died down. So then the next night the warning was
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still active. So they said this it's going to be even better the next
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night. So at I got home and at like ten o'clock, I went
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out and I started, you know, after Max went to bed and went
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over to my neighbors and was hanging out with them, and we saw a
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little bit here and I was like, oh, it's just it's not that
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great. And then I tracked the International Space Station. So there's you can
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go to the the Space Station website. I'll get the link for you here.
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It'll be on the blog and you can have it alert you to when
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the space station is going to be visible in your area, meaning it travels
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over it looks like a bright star that's traveling across. I get a text
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message every time it's available viewable in my area. This is something I've been
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doing for as long as it's been up. It's been at least fifteen years.
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Have been tracking the space station following because it's just incredible. Didn't you
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it's didn't you talk to one of the astronauts once? So well, yeah,
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one of the astronauts on the space station in twenty twenty one, his
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son went to Notre Dame. We got hooked up with him. He's an
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Notre Dame grant. Also, we did some stuff with NASA big basically a
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big WebEx call and did a down link with the space station, which was
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pretty cool. One of my bucket lists photographs has been to shoot the space
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station with the Northern lights. Oh and it went over the night before and
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went over Friday, went over Friday night, but there were no They weren't
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visible then. So I got some pictures of it, but it wasn't visible.
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So I was really bummed because I was like, this was a bucket
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list thing. There was a maybe a little bit of green glow, a
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little bit of green glow on the horizon. So that was at ten forty
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five Friday night. It went over again at twelve forty eight am Saturday morning.
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So I decided, you know what, I'm just gonna call one of
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my friends. I'm gonna stay up. We're going to talk about it.
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I know he's up. He was up at the Mackinaw Bridge in Mackinaw,
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Michigan, shooting the ord lights up there because they were way more visible up
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there, three hundred and seventy miles straight north of here. And he was
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ready. He knew how He's like, it's not cloudy here, I'm seeing
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him. I think it's going to be great. At twelve thirty they just
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explodeed and my buddy goes, oh, man, i'm seeing them. RELLI
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bright here And it was like somebody flipped on a light in my neighbor's backyard
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and you could just see him in the sky. It got so bright I
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actually had to change my exposure on my camera because it was too bright.
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Now it was it was crazy. And then it died down just a little
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bit. I was like, no, no, I was cursing. I
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was cursing the gods to me, right, I was like, come on,
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you sons of guns, right yeah, And it stayed just long enough
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I was able to get a fifteen second exposure of the space station. So
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you'll see this little tiny line in my image. Oh is that what that
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line is? I've seen. I've seen the picture, so the one with
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the house and it is my friend Brad's. There are four pictures because we
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were all on the phone together. We did merge our phone calls together,
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and we were all together in this phone call. And this is something we've
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all been trying to do. This is something we've all four of us have
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been trying to get. There wasn't three other people I would have wanted to
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be together with in a phone call, several hundred miles apart, all shooting
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the Northern Lights with the space station in it. Oh, that is pretty
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cool. There are four of us that have pictures with the Northern Lights with
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the space station in it. And that was a bucket list just for me.
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But to have all four of us be able to get it. In
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Granger, Indiana, Caledonia, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Mackinaw City,
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Michigan. Wow, it blew my mind. It was a photographic dream
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for me to get those two things together. Now. The reason I wanted
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to do that because normally, when the space station is transitting and you can
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see the Northern lights, they could they are up there taking pictures and seeing
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the northern lights. Except this time, really they are. They they are
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on what's called the transient line, which is literally the line where it's the
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middle where it's dark on the left and sunlight on the right, so it's
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too bright for them to see him from the space station. There's a whole
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article from one of the from one of the astronauts and stuffing right now about
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why they couldn't see him and stuff. Because my dream was to be able
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to take a picture from the space station taken around the same time as when
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I took my picture here on Earth and frame them together. Oh that would
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have been cool. Yeah, that can't because they couldn't see him from the
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space station. So explain this to me. What so we were able to
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see them here somebody in Green Valley where the station is, that they got
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their photo on television and you could see some of that that purple, that
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kind of light shade in there. But I noticed that I couldn't really see
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it with the naked eye. But if I held my camera up and I,
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you know, just brought down the iris just a bit, I get
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a pretty good shot and it wasn't like your images, but pretty good.
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So it's it's like, it's hard to explain, but they're they're visible.
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And when you take a long exposure along you know, you're having to shutter
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open for an next other period of time, you capture more light, so
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you're seeing more of the light in these pictures. So when you look at
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pictures of the northern lights, right, a lot of people are like,
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oh my god, that's that's how you see it in the naked eye,
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not in this far south right. If you were up in Alaska, or
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you know, in somewhere in Canada, Newfoundland or Finland or Iceland, that's
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what it looks like with the naked eye. You see those really bright greens,
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those bright purples, those bright reds. But this far south it just
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looks like wispy clouds that may have a little bit of luminescent color colors.
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You might look a little pink, a little green, but with with some
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creative photography, you can get those colors to come out with long exposures.
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I want our listeners to check out our blog blog tech talk radio dot com.
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You get it from the main page of our site. Now, sticking
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with that theme of photography, Lorie Grace has been doing photography and capturing some
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of the most amazing weather photography. And I've been following her for about a
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year on Twitter and I've been just amazed by some of the shots. I
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gave you the link and told you to take a look. You also were
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pretty amazed. We're going to talk to her about what it takes to get
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that perfect shot, how she got into this, and some other things that
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she's doing a podcast now all about this, so again we'll talk to her.
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Coming up with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm
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sean to Weird. Find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com.
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We'll be right back now back to tech talk Radio. This is Danny
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Treo, and you're listening to tech talk Radio, and you better keep listening
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and I'll come looking for you. One of the things that's really cool about
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social media is the fact that you could go online and you could find,
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you know, a profile that you like and wow, this person is pretty
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amazing and you look at it and every day there's something different, something new,
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something that just knocks your socks off. And it was really cool because
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you know, Sean and I we just did this segment talking about the Aurora
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barrealis, you know, the northern lights, and how he was having so
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much fun getting out there and taking pictures. And I said, Sean,
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I've invited somebody on the show today. You weren't gonna absolutely just love the
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discussion. And of course I'm talking about Laurie Grace. Now. I saw
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lur Grace about a year ago online and I saw these images and I said,
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those are powerful. And I mean I've gone out with my you know,
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Canon seventy in the backyard and I've tried to maybe get some get some
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photos of what's going on, you know, with a lightning storm, but
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Laurie just captures it completely. And I am so glad that she was available
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and is able to talk with us. Laurie, thanks for coming on Tech
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Talk Radio, and thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure
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and to get to get to listen to you and Sean Live and get to
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get to have a chat one with you, all one on one. It's
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great. Well, you do amazing, amazing photography. I have to ask
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what inspired you to get into into photography? Oh wow, you know I
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have to say that the you know, I always wanted to chase storms.
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Obviously when I was younger, I was hoping to maybe you know, be
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a tornado chaser, you know, study at Texas Tech and actually study the
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dynamics and everything. Math wasn't you know, my best I wasn't best suited
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for math. But I also life takes you on a different course. So
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I ended up, you know, when the kids were born in two thousand
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and when then in nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and three, you know,
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you want to take better pictures, especially back then. You know,
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the cell phone pictures weren't really great back then of taking just snaps. So
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I bought a I don't know whether Digital Rebel x T or something like that,
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one of the early digital models. And then I started, you know,
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I was taking tons of pictures of the kids, and then I started
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pointing them with the roses and then the coyotes. I'd get a telephoto lens,
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and it just slowly started to that passion started to grow in me,
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you know, and I wanted more. You know, it's like Johnny five
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from Short Circuit, more implant, more photography, and it just grew from
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there, and eventually I realized that that merging came back. I could do
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what I wanted to back when I was younger, and maybe not be a
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scientist in it and meteorologist, but I could still capture the beauty of goodness,
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man, the southern you know, Southern Arizona is a heart of monsoons.
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And I realized once I started doing that, I pointed my cameras and
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took me a little bit of trial and error in the first year was pretty
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ugly, but you know, after that, it was just like you start
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to learn these the settings to have, how to capture lightning and all of
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that, and it was just it was it was a match made in heaven
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or in the skies, I should say, with each capture, there's got
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to be if you're just go out there taking pictures and you're not thinking about
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composition, thinking about angles, You're not thinking about what is in the foreground,
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what is in the background, the picture is not gonna have that.
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It's gonna be exciting, but it's not gonna have that. You seem to
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capture all of that and every single picture I've seen, you've got the foreground
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laid out perfectly, the background. It's it's not done with photoshop. This
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is an amazing photography, photography you've been able to capture. Thanks Andy.
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You know, the fact of the matter is for every great shot that I'm
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personally proud of, you know, I'm not looking for the likes necessarily.
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Sure, we want to share that image and have a lot of people also
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go, wow, this is really great work. But for me to be
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able to do that, for every great shot that I'm proud of, there's
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probably a thousand more on a camera that are just garbage. And it's trial
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and error. You know, you get better with time and persistence, but
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you just have to be and I use the word undaunted right because stormchase.
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Being a stormchaser, being a photographer that goes out and tries to capture unique
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imagery like that, you're either gonna it's gonna be a very short lived hobby
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because you're gonna be sick of it, of all the boredom and the non
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storms and all that other stuff, or you're going to push forward and look
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for that next extraordinary moment. And if you've been in Arizona for any length
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of time, for any summer, those moments are coming, you know,
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every season, those months during the monsoon season, they're coming. And even
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then we have the Arizona Nights and we just had the Aurora borealis. So
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there's always opportunities to succeed. And so it just got a trial and erriage
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is your friend, and just be persistent and eventually you'll start to learn where
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you can set up those compositions and wait for that storm to happen, or
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when the storm is moving in that direction, you already know which little hill
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out in the desert that you want to get up on. Not too high
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because you don't want to be struggle whiehlightning. Yeah, but you learn to
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develop exactly where you want to be right. You don't want to be in
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front of a you know, in the middle of two sun necessarily, where
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you're just where there's just tons of power lines and stuff. There are opportunities
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inside Tucson to capture really great images, but you really have to develop that
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and hopefully and usually when the storm's not there, I'll see a spot and
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go, oh, I need to mark this and remember this the next tiger
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storms, I can come back to this quickly and get a really cool shot.
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So yeah, it's it's not that easy, but it just takes time.
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Do you do you follow like weather patterns, like we say, storm
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chaser? But have you gotten to the point where you'll you know, you'll
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pull up the National Weather Service and you'll see what are they predicting and then
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maybe go out and chase obsessively. I'm sorry to say yes, every single
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day I pull up the weather models and there's there's several websites where you can
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look at all this data for free, and when you're new at it,
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you're going, what is all of this? And maybe I'm just better off
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checking out the forecast on the local news and in the local weather and just
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be safe that way. Oh, they say there's a twenty chance of storms,
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so you're saying, there's a chance I'm going to get out. That's
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my persistence. But after a while you begin to do your own forecasting,
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and so instead of being you know, out towards Heila Bend, maybe I
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might be out towards Douglas and knowing that there's a little bit more moisture,
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you know, moving in and maybe a you know, a back door called
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front or something. You start to learn these patterns yourself, and so you
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get out there waiting, and while everybody else might be in a different location,
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you're sitting there and just knowing, like hoping that the magic happens.
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And when it happens, you know, I've done dances where no one's looking
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out, you know, on the east side of the Tierrakawa's raining and lightning
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and I'm sitting there like an idiot, and i just don't care because I
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got this beautiful shot of lightning in a rainbow. You know, It's just
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yeah, I love it is amazing. You can't explain that feeling, right,
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So I'm going to tell a quick story. So this past this past
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weekend, we had the Aurora borealis here right so KP nine, which is
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one of the highest ratings they've ever given it, yep, because they've tracked
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it and we were able to see them here in Indiana. I've tried them
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all over the all over the country, and I've shot them all over the
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country. I lived in northern Michigan for a long time. That's where I
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grew up, so I've seen them. This was the furthest south I've gotten.
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One of my bucket list images was to capture the space station at the
22:11
same time as the War of Royalis. So it happen it went over twice
22:15
on Saturday morning, So once at ten forty five Friday night and once again
22:18
at twelve forty five Saturday morning. And three of my other friends and I
22:22
have been trying to get this, this one image of the space station in
22:26
the Aura. So four of us were on a phone call together. One
22:29
of them was at the Macanaw Bridge up up at the Upper Peninsula, one
22:32
of them was in gun Rappids, the other one in Kalamazoo, and me
22:34
in Indiana, and all four of us were able to capture the space station
22:38
in the Aura in four different spots, three hundred and ninety five miles apart.
22:42
I will tell you it was just such a surreal experience, right,
22:45
And you say you do that happy dance like I was hooting and hower and
22:48
dancing around my tripod. Right, It's just an unreal feeling when you get
22:52
that. So I just I just wanted to share that, Well, we
22:55
had the auroras here. That's awesome. Like I that that's going to be
22:57
a lot of technical and from to be able to know when that thing is
23:00
going to cross and then to have that magic happen where the aurora happens and
23:04
the space station and your camera's pointed right there in perfect timing in unison.
23:10
Man, that's quite a feat by the way, Like I, that's really
23:12
tough. My main focus in photography is astrophotography in space. So you know,
23:18
I did the eclipse a couple of weeks ago, which is incredible also,
23:22
but there are tracking tools for all this, so the Internet has been
23:26
a godsend for that where you can get text messages saying, hey, the
23:30
space station is going to be visible at four forty five in the morning at
23:33
this elevation for this long and just doing the math in my head, I
23:37
was like, this is going to happen during this storm, this solar storm,
23:40
and I just was able to put the dots together and get it just
23:42
just perfect. So how I want to see that image too, so I
23:47
will share them. I will share them with you. Get Yeah, I
23:49
did capture the aurora here in Arizona by the way like it actually happened here.
23:53
I was exhausted and my friends said, you know, I'm not into
23:57
the space weather, but they said, it's happened. You better get your
24:00
butt out there. I drove two and a half hours from Harriet to east
24:03
of Florence into the darkness in front of Saguaros and I'm sitting there. The
24:07
sun goes down and I'm like, what is all this pink all around me?
24:11
And I pointed the camera up took a picture and it was the aurora
24:15
overhead, and I'm like, this is incredible. So I've shared a time
24:18
lapse from here in Rio Rico of you know, the aurora, the pillars
24:22
just moving over the Santa Rita Mountains. It's just the most amazing thing.
24:26
Wow. I'm just so glad I was able to capture that too. Yeah,
24:29
I'm glad that. I'm glad that it was you were able to see
24:32
that because I have thousands and thousands and thousands of images of the Nord Lights
24:37
and hours of time laps footers that I've taken over the Nord Lights. So
24:40
for you guys to be able to get a chance to see that down there,
24:42
that south is just I'm so grateful that photographers like you had got a
24:47
chance to see them down there, because it is I can't tell you how
24:51
surreal it is. I can't. You can't explain it now. I'm you're
24:53
totally right. I'm wondering, Lorie, like getting the lightning shots you get
24:59
that. Nobody can just go out and just do that. You have to
25:03
trial and error and you've got to learn the settings of the camera. I
25:07
mean you become I sound like you know the guy and karate kid, you
25:11
become one with the camera of like how long did that take to really kind
25:15
of master and once you did it? How what was that feeling like?
25:19
You know the first year, the first couple of years, especially during daytime,
25:25
right, you know, anybody that knows like the basics of of of
25:27
cameras and you know you've got your shutter speed and aperture and ISO right,
25:32
and you're trying to like, okay, here comes the lightning. The first
25:34
year was about of like, oh, I think there's lightning about going to
25:38
happen, and I would I would just hold the shutter button down and I'd
25:41
get home with three thousand images maybe one shot of lightning. Like it was
25:45
an a physmal failure at it, and I had to I had to do
25:48
better. And of course I quickly learned though that once you know the sun
25:52
was going down, I could drag that shutter we call dragging the shutter,
25:56
and you can open up the shutter to you know, a second or five
26:00
seconds, and in that time, if lightning happens, you get it.
26:02
So nighttime photography capturing lightning, it's it's so much easier than trying to do
26:08
it during the daytime. So during the daytime there are devices they just call
26:12
them lightning triggers, lightning you know, devices, and some of them are
26:18
real junk others. So I have I've spent I can't I don't even want
26:22
to get get into how much I've spent on trying to, you know,
26:26
invest in these devices. Some work, some don't, but you know,
26:30
I do rely on some of those during the daytime shots which aren't aren't really
26:33
the best shots anyway. For me. The magic hour is that sunset hour
26:37
and the hour after into blue into blue hour, where the lightning, you
26:41
know, the sun's going down and it lights up the clouds into all sorts
26:45
of colors and you get that maybe a rainbow, but even even then,
26:48
you just get the colors of the Arizona sunset and then you and then add
26:52
lightning to the sauce and you just have you know, you just have the
26:56
perfect pasta. It is a dumb analogy. No it's not. It's the
27:00
truth. I mean the shot with the lightning and the rainbow that we can
27:04
see on your website and definitely we'll put a link up on our blog to
27:07
it lorigraceaz dot com. That is just that is absolutely amazing where you have
27:15
those two you have the piece of the rainbow and the power of the lightning
27:18
bolt. I mean, it's uh, just an amazing shot. Thank you.
27:22
And you know, I actually love to do that. That's kind of
27:25
a goal now every year is my most successful I guess online images, my
27:30
most fire image is people love that, like that one that Sean's got up
27:33
there. Yeah, that lightning crossing the rainbow. People love that, and
27:37
so it's it's it's a matter of science, right, how are you going
27:41
to capture that time and time again? People go, oh, it's you
27:44
know, I get comments it's a one once in a lifetime shot and I'm
27:47
like, I've got about forty of those now. But it's it's it's really
27:51
right. You want to senature back and you want the storm in front of
27:53
you, and you know you so you get the rainbow, so you and
27:56
once the rainbow happens, you need that convection in your hoping for a thunderstorm.
28:00
If you want to plant yourself, you want to drive these roads so
28:03
that you're between the sun and the storm and when the lightning hits, you
28:07
know, you can just go. Yeah, it was a once in a
28:10
lifetime event in a week, you know a little bit. But you know,
28:12
you just with practice, you start to get better at even navigating around
28:17
storms safely. How do you how do you go through all of these LORI
28:21
you come back after a shoot and you've got, you know, thousands of
28:23
pictures? Is that gonna be? Is that a little time consuming? And
28:26
are you shooting raw? So, I mean you've got absolutely So you've got
28:30
to have like a huge storage. I'm looking at like five fourteen terabyte hard
28:36
drives over here on the site. So yeah. And in fact of the
28:38
matter is quite honestly, during the monsoon, I chase as much as I
28:42
can if I'm available. My friends know, my my spouse knows, I'm
28:47
gone, I've got the dog in the car, and at the end of
28:49
the night, if the storms are in Lordsburg or in you know, in
28:52
Texas, and I come back five hours, six hours later, I'll dump
28:56
all my images off the you know, onto the cards, the cards onto
29:00
the hard drive, charge everything up, and do it again the next day
29:04
until there's finally a break, and maybe I'll go through a couple of images
29:07
to post online like, hey, this was a fun day, but everything
29:11
else remains, especially the time lapses, right Like I will capture a storm
29:15
moving across the landscape, but that that's usually about four or five hundred images
29:19
that I have to process later, you know, into a time lapse and
29:22
a movie. And then I take all of those and at the end of
29:26
the year, I'll put out a little monsoon video. I have one on
29:29
YouTube that's called the Best at the Tucson Monsoon, and I'm so proud of
29:33
that that video. But there's probably that probably took me four or five years
29:37
just to create this five minute video. So how did you see the audience
29:41
on social media grow? For you? You know, I always I always
29:44
think it's interesting when somebody has a passion, whether it be a video production,
29:49
astro photography or even cars, and they get people that start looking at
29:55
their their you know, content like I did when I first saw you on
29:59
Twitter, and then you like want to just keep looking at it. How
30:03
did that audience kind of grow? You know? It started off with my
30:06
Twitter account just became was just photos of me and the dogs, and me
30:10
and the dogs would go out into the desert on a hike or whatever and
30:12
just being real. And I was I've always been a little bit of a
30:15
weather or not, so I would share local Tucson news, Tucson weather,
30:18
and you just you know, you have an authentic, uh you know,
30:22
an authentic group of people who follow you, and you you follow them.
30:26
And then as you as I started to get better at what I was doing,
30:30
starting to take the photos, my audience grew grew, you know,
30:33
grew larger and larger, with people saying, hey, I can't wait to
30:36
you know, I want to come to Arizona to do what you're doing,
30:38
or I want to be a better photographer, and so it just naturally you
30:41
get that natural, organic growth. I'm not interested in, you know,
30:45
having x amount of followers who don't care about what I'm doing, you know,
30:51
I don't want that. I want people just like I did when I
30:52
first started. You have that organic group of people, that community of people,
30:56
and it started in Tucson, right and you know, great group of
31:00
people. There's some people are photographers. Other people just enjoy being here and
31:03
looking at the beautiful and you know, the night skies or the storms and
31:08
and that's just something that we can all come together on in a time where
31:12
there's so much division when people go, oh, I didn't know that that
31:15
you thought this about this politician. Yeah, they don't care. They just
31:19
want to see the pretty stuff. So I'm trying to just maintain that and
31:23
that that nice little coziness despite the growth, and the growth has been great
31:27
and I'm just so glad that more people get to see what I'm doing they
31:30
appreciate it. And you also build a following up of like minded individuals that
31:36
also like to do this. And it's a neat way to you know,
31:38
get your own kind of group together of people that say, oh, look
31:41
this is the shot I got. It's like you know Sean, you know,
31:44
showing the shots of that he got of the Aurora of Barlealis, the
31:49
northern lights. And then of course the stuff from the eclipse. It's it's
31:52
always great and you get other people that say, oh, I like that,
31:56
and so that's really a cool thing, although it could dangerous. And
32:00
we haven't mentioned this yet. And when I read this, I was like,
32:05
oh my gosh, you actually got hit by lightning. I did.
32:08
I did. And people are like, why are you still chasing lightning if
32:12
you were struck lightning? Well, first of all, I wasn't struck by
32:15
lightning because I was chasing it. I wasn't intentionally trying to get in the
32:19
path of lightning. And it happened in the I still can't tell for sure
32:22
if it was late nineties or early two thousands, but it was quite a
32:25
while ago, and I was I was at work and just something happened where
32:30
I was outside of a vehicle and lightning lit me up, and you know,
32:34
I just I always joke about it. I tell people it was a
32:36
revolting experience, because I've shared the story so many times. But the fact
32:39
of the matter is that it knocked me out and had I have short term
32:44
memory loss and I have a scar in my heart apparently from that lightning strike.
32:50
And so the other part about this at this point with me is people
32:52
go, well, that's just dangerous. Why are you chasing this lightning?
32:55
And I try to tell people, well, why do you ride a motorcycle
32:58
or why do you do these why do you do these little things that give
33:01
you pleasure? And while they say, well, I wear a helmet and
33:04
I'm safe and I only do this and this, and I said, exactly,
33:07
it's a mitigated risk. And I get an opportunity for to have this,
33:12
to have this, you know, to have this audience. And now
33:15
I can tell that same audience it's a great thing that you love what I
33:17
love too. But here's the thing, here's how you can do it safely.
33:21
And oftentimes I will show people and be able to educate people on lightning
33:25
safety, right you know. And that's a really great feeling to do that
33:29
too. Now, to be able to bring that whether it's a news article
33:31
or something, and I can talk to people about how to do this safely
33:35
instead of just saying, you know, when lightning, when thunder roars go
33:37
indoors, like National Weather Services, it shows I can show them you can
33:42
still be safe in a car with a hardtop, right yep, you know,
33:45
And and get to tell my story on a more personal level, and
33:47
people will remember that versus just trying to remember a statement that someone says,
33:52
Sean, when you go out and take photos, what kind of gear do
33:55
you take with you? It depends on what I'm shooting. It's so dependent
33:59
on what I'm doing. Right, If I know that I'm going out overnight,
34:01
I take weather gear because the weather can change so quickly. I don't
34:07
really shoot storms, so I'm usually anticipating clear skies when i go, because
34:10
I'm shooting northern lights, I'm shooting, I'm shooting galaxies, I'm shooting stuff
34:15
with my hot telescope, you know, and stuff like that. So I
34:17
usually I just have my my gear. My I'm a big on being prepared
34:22
for any event really, so some weather gear, but first aid kit,
34:25
you know, the whole spang. But mostly it's just my camera gear,
34:30
boots, pants, you know, I really know. I guess it's just
34:32
the normal. But but sometimes the only camera you gots your phone, so
34:36
sometimes it's just whatever you got. The best camera you got is the one
34:38
in your hand, so absolutely, you know, I really wish Sean and
34:43
Andy, I really wish that people would understand that more too, because they
34:45
think, I think that's the biggest miss uh missnomer or you know, the
34:50
the misunderstood part about it is, oh, I can't be a good photographer
34:53
like you until I have X amount of dollars worth in gear and lenses and
34:59
everything. You know. The you nail it, You nail it on the
35:01
head just by saying, you know, having a phone with you. These
35:04
phones capture incredible images. To use your phone, use whatever you have.
35:08
It doesn't cost a lot to be able to enjoy nature and to get out
35:13
of town. Even just to be able to go out there with it,
35:15
maybe a friend or two and enjoy these beautiful scenes and and get out and
35:20
either see the night sky or see a storm or a sunset. It really
35:23
does. It's really as good for the soul to you know, it's a
35:27
de stressor for sure, I've got the canon seven D How many times have
35:31
I taken that out? Really honestly, if I have my iPhone with me
35:36
or you know, whatever phone people choose, that's the one I'm taking pictures
35:39
with. Then well we had Scott Kelby on the show about a year and
35:44
a half ago, and that's he said, you know, these cameras are
35:46
getting better. You know, they've gotten The DSLRs are kind of gone now
35:50
it's mirrorless, and the cameras and our smartphones are getting better. Not to
35:54
knock what people are able to do with the traditional DSLR are mirrorless. But
36:00
still it's like you said, if you see something, take a picture,
36:05
be happy with it. Absolutely. I just want to pick your brain,
36:07
just for sacond Lorie. So I just dug back into my archives because I
36:12
got my start back when I was in high school, so this would be
36:15
in early two thousands, and I started doing long exposures. So I do
36:20
have some lightning stuff and this is probably the only lightning stuff I've ever shot,
36:22
and it's on film. So I'm gonna share my screen and I want
36:25
your your professional opinion on some of these. So this was it in my
36:29
parents' house in the front yard. So I don't know if you can see
36:31
that very well or not. I can see it just fine. Wow,
36:35
this was shot. I yeah, I saw eight hundred film. I don't
36:39
film can't. I can't tell you so long. I don't know what the
36:43
exposure was. Well, my aperture was. I don't eve remember what lenses
36:45
I had on that. I know it was a middle to X seven.
36:47
That's the camera I still have. I still shoot on that occasionally. I
36:50
still shoot film a lot. So I got a couple of bad ones in
36:54
here. Just I grew up in Ludington, Michigan, which is on the
36:58
coast of Lake Michigan, and we got a lot of really cool storms to
37:00
come through. So I tried to get lightning a handful of times growing up,
37:05
but it just didn't. It wasn't my jam, you know, it
37:07
didn't didn't sparket in me. And it's a black I want, don't care
37:10
about that. I want. I think I have one more good one.
37:14
So those are my Those are my contributions to the lightning photos of the world.
37:19
No, they're not bad though, I mean, dude, and you
37:21
caught them with a with a with a with film, and I have a
37:24
film camera and I've been too scared. I just break out with all the
37:29
other mirror lists that I have and all the cool gear and expensive gear and
37:31
lenses, and I just it's because the storm's moving right, I want to
37:37
keep up at the storm, so I don't have time to finally get that
37:39
film camera out. But one of these days I want to but you better
37:43
really know what you're doing with the setting, because you don't, you won't
37:45
know if you got it right exactly. It's a hard part of my experience.
37:51
I tell people it's like, if you really want to get into the
37:53
nitty gritty and learn how to shoot, shoot on film, Yeah, fewed
37:58
with different flavors of you know, different ISOs of film, and you'll really
38:01
learn real quick how to trust your meters and to trust your gut and trust
38:07
your gut a lot. And you mentioned like chasing storms and chasing things like
38:10
that. I chased a lot of solar events or space events. So when
38:17
we had the neo wised comment visible for a long period of time, I
38:21
was up in towards the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and I was planning on
38:24
just going and shooting the comet over the like over the mackinaw Bridge. And
38:30
when I pulled into the parking lot three in the morning, I got to
38:32
learn on my phone saying the space station was gonna be overhead in two minutes.
38:37
So I ran, I was running as fans I could, and I
38:38
set my chopod up and it just was muscle memory. I need twenty five
38:43
second disposure. I need my aperture at four point zero, I need I
38:46
saw sixteen hundred and I just clicked and I just waited right yeah, and
38:51
I you know, it was a little bumpy at first, but then I
38:52
was able to adjust. But it's just you got it's fun and it's exhilarating
38:57
when you do this and you know what you want to get. You can
39:00
just rely on instinct and muscle memory to get it. And it's such a
39:04
cool feeling when you get those shots that you just absolutely love. Now,
39:07
except until the year goes around and then you have to shake the dust off
39:09
the camera. Right then you have to work at it again. Now,
39:14
Laurie, one of the cool things about this is again you when you post
39:17
your art, I call it art. It's it's a photography. Consider it
39:21
art art. Yeah, you post this online, people get a chance to
39:22
see this. But now you've kind of gone into podcasting now to talk about
39:27
this and how how is that able to develop for you? You know,
39:31
indeed, it's getting to talk to people, getting to you know, deep
39:37
dive into other people's stories. You know. I think the reason I got
39:43
so passionate into photography, you know, and I do love the night skies
39:46
as well and all the other good stuff. Lightning is still my jam,
39:50
and so are now are tornadoes too, because next month I'll be chasing tornadoes
39:53
on the planes, hopefully fingers crossed. And I do that every year as
39:58
well. We call it chase case. By the way, I know we're
40:00
instead of vacations, you know, storm chasers call them chasecations. But getting
40:05
back to the to the to the people element, you know, I really
40:07
think that what I do, I really think that it's not just a picture
40:10
of lightning. I could tell you the day that I shot. I could
40:14
tell you how frustrated I was, how how depressed I was, how sad
40:16
I was, and that it's really become a cathartic experience. And so there's
40:21
a story to tell with each and every photo I capture or share and getting
40:25
to talk to other photographers or other people out there, other storm chasers.
40:29
Why would someone be a storm chaser? Why would someone like Sean just want
40:32
to get out into the night sky and just get away from it all,
40:35
Because there's a there's a reason for that, and the reason I started that
40:38
podcast. I call it not the calm before the storm, but the storm
40:42
before the calm? Oh wow, And my own life has been you know,
40:45
riddled with its own I think every one, every one of us,
40:47
it's almost cliche that that every single one of us has had a story to
40:52
tell, but you know, a stormy life that that's brought us to where
40:54
we are today. And so I like to call it the storm before the
40:59
calm, so we can tell the stories and hear the stories, especially stormchasers
41:04
and other extreme you know, people that are into extreme sports. But what
41:08
propels you to do these crazy, insane things? How did you get there?
41:13
Because there's a story to tell in that. And so I just launched
41:17
this podcast. I have three out and I have a list of probably twenty
41:21
people that I'm going to be doing that in due time to get that interview
41:24
out. But I want to hear more of the story. I want to
41:27
hear how the storm brought them to the calm because for us, as storm
41:30
chasers, well you're standing in front of this beautiful storm, that's where the
41:35
calm is. It's not the storm, but it's a cathartic feeling. It's
41:38
a wonderful, stress relieving feeling unless the tornado is about to hurt you.
41:44
But you know, for the most part, for the most part, this
41:46
is a beautiful thing to do, and you feel so much relief. It's
41:50
so much stress relief to get away from the cities and to just be out
41:53
in nature again and to do all that. So I want to hear those
41:55
stories and hear people share those stories with us. Now, can our listeners
42:00
find the link on your website at Lorigraceazy dot com where they can excell Yeah,
42:06
so they should be able to do that. If not, we'll put
42:07
a link up on our blog as well. With the photos that Sean has
42:10
taken that we talked about earlier, but pretty amazing stuff. Now I'm thinking
42:15
we get people, they see your photos, I'm going to come to Arizona.
42:20
It's great for tourism, you know. They want to come here,
42:22
they want to take photos, they want to you know, see the storm,
42:23
see the monsoon season. I remember before I moved here, and I've
42:27
been here twenty four years, I was told about monsoons. Yeah, whoopee
42:31
do That first monsoon was a good one too. Is there anywhere in the
42:36
world that you could think of that you'd say, I really want to go
42:39
there and I want to take photos there. Because of a weather condition or
42:45
you know, because there's monsoons in India. There's I mean, they're all
42:49
over the world. I have a friend, a photographer friend in Kuwait,
42:52
and she's got pictures of these these monster storms just generating hobs that come out
42:58
and like obviously like these are you know, almost tropisphere like level haboobs that
43:05
just scrape over the earth. I'd love to capture something like that. But
43:09
I also want to go to that place. And I forget the name of
43:12
it. I always remember it, and I forget it thanks to the shortter
43:15
memory loss. It's in Venezuela, I think, and it's it's a place
43:19
caught to Boombo or something, but it's literally there's a lightning bolt that drops
43:23
over this lake every thirty seconds or something on average throughout the year. Wow.
43:28
And I didn't think that it was a real place until someone told me
43:30
and I looked it up, and it's a real thing. I would love
43:34
to go there, and I would also I would love to chase them onsoon
43:37
in India and maybe some super cells in Brazil. I've seen super cells and
43:42
they spin in the opposite direction, right, Yeah, And so I'd love
43:45
to be able to. I think my brain would just would just short circuit.
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Yeah, a short circuit if I try to see that or if I
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saw that in real life. So well, I have a lot of goals.
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Amazing, amazing photography, great work, and I want our listeners to
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please check it out Luri, l O r I, grace Azy dot com
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and again, uh, just phenomenal stuff and and follow the podcast as well.
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Uh and looking forward to seeing what more great images you're going to be
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creating. Sean, did you have another question for Lori? No, I
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just want to be on her podcast now there you go on over. No,
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I just think, like I'm just Andy said, we're having a photographer
44:29
on and just with the experience that I had this past week with the auras
44:31
is just having another photographer jump in and being able to share those experiences.
44:37
That's somebody. It not that Andy doesn't get it right, but there's just
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a feeling of success and in touch with the gear and everything when you get
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that picture that you just absolutely love. So that's great stuff, Lori,
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you feel it locked in? Yeah, definitely, yeah, locked in And
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like like you said, you know, you've done some some silly dances and
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who didn't hower and I feel that in my in my yeah, it's a
45:00
great feeling. Laurie, thank you so much for coming on tech Talk Radio
45:04
and again we'll look forward to continuing and then thank you for these great images
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you've been able to create. Thank you so much, Andy and Sean,
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we'll be back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
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Seon de Weird tweet us or excess or whatever it's called the tech talk Radio
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and that fact to tech talk Radio. Man, what a segment with Laurie.
45:22
That was incredible, a lot of fun. And again, check out
45:24
on's log blog dot tech talk radio dot com and on there we'll have the
45:29
links back to Lori's website as well as your YouTube page. You can check
45:32
that out too, and of course you want to check out her podcast.
45:36
But we do appreciate her coming on the show and talking about this some really
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amazing photos. You know, anytime you have a question, super easy to
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get it to us. There's a couple of ways you can email us.
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That's easy, Tech Guys T E. C. H. G U y
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to you're stuck in the middle of a project, if we can help you
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with that, we certainly will. But it's one of the segments we do
46:13
really enjoy. Sean, So listen to Question Time all right, Mark in
46:16
Green Valley, we talked about streaming last week, and so he wrote us.
46:20
He wrote us because he wanted to know some more. He says,
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Hey, guys, loved your show last week about streaming and cable wondering what
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the best value is for a streaming service Showtime Max and this is this is
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coming just as I'm gonna be getting rid of getting rid of Max. Yeah,
46:36
so I don't have I've never had show. It all depends on what
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you want to watch, right. If you have something at showtime, you
46:40
want to watch show Time. If you have someone Max, you want to
46:43
watch watch Max. But as Andy has noted in the past, we've talked
46:46
about this, they're starting to bundle streaming services. There was an announcement made
46:52
earlier this week too, uh, and they're calling it stream Saver, and
46:57
it'll be bundled by Exfinity and I you know, usually what will happen is
47:00
one of them, whether it be Cox or Exfinity or any of the other
47:05
services that are out there, will do this and then the others will follow
47:08
suit. But what they're doing because well, let's face it, Exfinity,
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Comcast is really part of Peacock if you think about that, is NBC and
47:17
whatnot. But Brian Roberts, the CEO, said that they're going to bundle.
47:22
This is interesting Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV, so you won't have
47:30
to have an Apple TV device to be able to see some of the programs
47:34
that are available from Apple. But if you get this platform, this is
47:38
if you get this platform, this is good. You realize how much soccer
47:43
content is going to be on this stream saver between Peacock and the Premier League
47:46
and Apple TV and MLS. That's right, Yeah, that's going to be
47:51
the go to Premiere Premier League MLS sports watching center. There's going to be
47:54
so much football soccer content, you know, honestly, And it's funny because
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I will say, I like the Peacocks streaming service and you know, and
48:04
thinking about cutting the cord. If I wanted to keep it going, I
48:07
would have to pay for it because I get it free because of the because
48:10
of the bundle that I have currently, Peacock is pretty good. Hulu I
48:15
like as well because you can get tons of you know, shows that classic
48:20
TV shows. You get movies as well. But honestly, I mean,
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uh, I kind of tell you. I watched Pluto TV this week.
48:29
I have never watched Pluto TV, and I love Pluto TV. And Pluto
48:32
TV is free and it's the only place you can really watch older sci fi
48:37
shows side because they are always streaming Stargate, which is my Stargate. I
48:43
love Lucy. I watch I Love Lucy. It was like, this is
48:45
great. You've got all tons of shows. There are a ton of Pluto
48:50
TV is probably the best free streaming service that exists. We had talked about
48:55
it, and I thought, I got to check this out again because it's
48:58
been a while and I I'm gonna toot my own I'm gonna toot my own
49:01
horn here real quick. But Peacock. I was involved in one of the
49:07
earliest sports streams on Peacock. Really well, what was hockey? Oh?
49:13
I had no idea, really, Notre Dame hockey, Notre Dame hockey,
49:15
and nor Dame Football have done broadcasts on Peacock. Well I know that,
49:21
uh, and you gotta be careful of this. Uh. Discovery, Disney
49:24
and Warner Brothers are bringing Disney Hulu and Max as well as Discovery as a
49:30
streaming bundle. And what's crazy about it is I have I pay for Cinemax
49:35
or not Cinemax, Hbo Max, I pay for that, but I also
49:39
have Discovery that I pay for, so but apparently they have the same program.
49:44
So I've been throwing away five dollars a month and I've been doing Caitlin
49:47
and I have been we just have been rebudgeting, right, because we have
49:51
another kid that's going to daycare soon. So I learned that with our Verizon
49:55
cell phone plan, we get the Disney Hulu being Plus bundle included in our
50:01
Horizon plan. And you've been paying for it, and I've been paying nineteen
50:05
bucks a month for it out of pocket when it I've been getting it for
50:08
free for the last year, right, right. So I just rolled over
50:13
all that, and there was some confusion because I used the same email address
50:16
for both, right, so it actually like unregistered dress from Hulu and I
50:20
had to go through some steps to get Hulu to actually let me have the
50:23
because it's like, you don't have an active subscription to Hulu because I had
50:27
to deactivate the Hula subscription to enable the Infinity subscription and they didn't like that
50:32
very much, so I had to go through customer support and deal with that,
50:36
and now we're back on the air with Hulu. Well, I would
50:37
recommend take a look at Pluto TV. Take a look to see if you
50:42
know, if you're thinking I want more options other than you know, network
50:45
television, or if you're looking at that, take a look at that.
50:49
I would also say Discovery is pretty good. If you like live action reality
50:52
based shows, you like ID channel, that's part of that Discovery bundle.
50:58
So something to think about there. But again, the more bundles are gonna
51:00
be coming as Exfinity's doing this, there'll be other opportunities as well that you
51:05
could, like you said, you could bundle and save somebody on that way.
51:08
It's just coming full circle words. It's just gonna be back to like
51:10
cable was exactly. They will start a streaming service and begin another cable service
51:17
to help people cut the cable and now you're a streaming service all right,
51:21
we're taking another quick break. We'll be back with more of tech Talk Radio.
51:23
Love to tell you about brand new products. That's what we're gonna do
51:25
when we come back. We're gonna tell you about a pair of headphones you
51:29
might want to be thinking about. You know, headphones have come a long
51:31
way over the years. Number one comfort, sound, safety, and overall
51:37
what they can do. Well. There's a pair of headphones that are coming
51:40
out from a company that we really love. This company, they've been around
51:45
a long time. They these headphones can work with just about anything and they
51:51
if it's a track record for their previous line of headphones, they're gonna sound
51:55
great. So we'll tell you more about that. Standing by, I'm Andy
51:59
Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird. Find us on Facebook at tech Talkers. We'll
52:02
be right back and now fact to tech talk Radio. We like to talk
52:07
about new products when we hear about them, and one of the products come
52:12
from a company that we really like. We've been doing stuff with them forever,
52:15
Steal Series and they have I have several of their products now. They
52:20
make what headphones, keyboards, I mean, they at the gamut when it
52:23
comes to your headsets, microphone, speakers, keyboards, mice, mouse pass
52:27
controllers, accessories, limited edition, the hole where they have all sorts of
52:31
stuff. Well, they've got a new headset that provides what they're saying is
52:35
over one hundred game specific audio presets. Now, I don't know how could
52:38
you have one hundred different presets audio. It's probably they probably went into each
52:45
game and custom tailored a sound profile for that game. So something like Cyberpunk,
52:50
right, Skyrim, Minecraft, Now could that be like if you're in
52:53
a in a dark dungeon, that it could work, you know, like
52:57
with that echo and something like that. I'm sure they've got some sort of
53:01
profile built for you know, it's gonna sound very cavernous. If you're in
53:05
a cage, it's gonna sound you know, if you're in a big you
53:07
know, like playing Assassin's Creed, you go into a big cathedral, it's
53:10
gonna sound like a cathedral. You know, things like that. Well,
53:13
for Still series products, a lot of people always think about them as being
53:15
a gamer type of product. But what they're doing is they're really showing that
53:19
their products can be used for both gaming and for productivity. Not to say
53:23
you can't be productive productive while playing a game. Their new one is called
53:27
the art is it Arctists Nova five yep? All right, and it's available
53:32
with allowing you to switch between two point four gigahertz and Bluetooth to take calls.
53:39
It works with Xbox PlayStation, switch PC made a quest that's interesting,
53:45
and phones are tablets that support USB dongle which comes with it. So again,
53:52
you're crazy. Yeah, you're gonna be able to use this just about
53:53
anywhere, whether it be work or even again play. I know that one
54:00
of the guys at the station has the Steel series headphones that he uses on
54:05
the air for his on air headphone and it works. Yeah, it's perfect.
54:07
Yeah. I have the Arctus seven pros from probably twenty fifteen that I'm
54:13
due for a new set. So looking at these, I mean you look
54:15
at some of these specs. Fifty hours of battery life running two point four
54:21
gig or sixty hours in bluetooth and with the USBC fast Charge, which USPC
54:25
charging is ridiculous. He can charge so fast with you ye charge it for
54:30
fifteen minutes, gives you six hours of Wow. Wow, that's pretty good.
54:35
So, I mean there's a lot of other check them out on Steel
54:37
series' website, but it's compatible with previmach any system you're going to come across,
54:40
PC, Mac, PS four, PS five, Switch Mobile, Oculus
54:44
Quest all with the dongle, or just connected via Bluetooth or two point four
54:47
gig Again. That's the Arc Nova five. That wraps up this week's techtok
54:52
Radio. Hope you enjoyed our discussion with Lori Grace if we get to check
54:55
out our website Lorigraceazy dot com. I know, uh, Sean, you
54:59
had a lot of fun with that too. Oh man, that was incredible,
55:01
you know, getting another photographer on here and just being able to talk
55:07
shop with her and get her experience with the stuff that she's been doing.
55:09
And for her to see the aurora in Arizona and shoot those and just get
55:15
those incredible photos. That's gonna be something she's gonna remember for the rest of
55:20
your life. Absolutely. Well, that's it. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
55:23
Seanda Weird. Find us on the world wide Web. You can subscribe to
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us on YouTube as well at tech talk radio dot com. Have a great week.