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Early in April the college rowing teams hold their heats along this stretch of river, wide and deep enough for many boats to race down against the force of the current as they head to the finish line in the middle distance. Then about 3 weeks later it is the state-wide final competition for high school rowing teams.
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The long shadows of this morning flight stand out in the foreground as the traffic along I-196 roars past. When internal combustion engines become a rarity, it will just be tires humming that makes the sound there. This view to the southwest is about 1.5 miles from Millennium Park, operated by Kent County Recreation Department.
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Pointing the drone lens the same way that the shadows are falling emphasizes the pattern of light and shadow looking to the northwest while the mid-morning sun is shining from the southeast corner of the sky.
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Land grant colleges and universities beginning with their invention at the end of the Civil War have been solving practical (often agricultural and later industrial) problems for the benefit of society. Researching and test planting to obtain the best row spacing and seed spacing for each soil type and orientation to the sun's movement from east to west have contributed to this farmer's field and use as seen here: tight seed spacing to shade out the weeds and the maximize the yield of ears per stalk and thus per acre. The morning sun passes from the right edge of the photo to the left during the day.
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This view above the treetops and rooftops shows that some of the mature trees have been preserved, but all the sidewalks, benches, grass, public art pieces, and parking areas are now gone. New features should begin appearing in the weeks ahead. This view is from the south end of the park and is looking to the north along Monroe Avenue.
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From the aerial drone's position near the Ball Avenue parking lot early on Sunday morning, this view to the southwest shows the treetop view over the wetland boardwalk and the high ground with tower perched on top. In the foreground the long shadows of daybreak darken the outfield of one of the baseball diamonds at Huff Park.
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Seen about 90 minutes after sundown, the darkness blankets the wooded surroundings of the lighted parking lot and entrance areas at the veterans home.
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For this enthusiast model, the sequence begins by pairing the controller with the aircraft and then calibrating the compass by rotating the UAV horizontally and then along a vertical axis. After that it takes several seconds to automatically triangulate a GPS reference in order to RTH (return to home) at the end of the flight. With everything now ready, unlock the quadcopter's motors and press the button to hover at eye level before moving the stick to rise into the sky.
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Along the right edge of the photo is M-21, a.k.a. 'Bluewater Highway' since much of it follows the Grand River (the low land blanketed in trees in the distance), this sand mining operation started maybe six or seven years ago. Since it is practically on the highway, moving the heavy material for sale could not be more convenient. Some parts of the world are hungry for mixing and pouring cement, like the Romans started doing 2000 years ago. But since sand is part of the aggregate mix, now there is talk of a sand shortage - some places worse than others.
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The playing field for baseball, softball, and kickball is part of the city's Aberdeen Park, together with the blue-roofed picnic shelter and toilets and the cement "splash pad" beyond that for squirting water to cool off small children and adults during summer months. A set of tennis courts lines the north boundary of the park property.
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Gone are the shiny steel rails, the rusty spikes holding the ribbons of rail onto the creosote covered railroad ties, and the layer of limestone on which everything rested. Now there is the narrow pavement and grassy sides for people on foot or on bikes.
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The white car, below, is heading south to the main entrance to the beach (turning right) or to Secchia Meadows and the event space at Grant Pavilion (turning left). At the bottom right corner of the photo is the foot bridge above the road to connect trails of one side to the other. See also, www.kentcountymi.gov/1716/Grant-Pavillion
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Flying a hobby drone means less than stunning stills and video clips, but it does give flying practice and the views do offer something of the full visual experience that bigger and pricier UAV can do.
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Residents drop off leaves and branches at the gate near the upper left of this photo. From there it goes to the mountain of material to be fed into the large red grinder near the middle of the photo to produce the uniformly small chips and shreds near the yellow digger. What happens to the resulting organic mulch is not clear, although the top center of the drone photo seems to show neat rows of material maturing in the cycle of warm and cold each day and during the cycle of passing months, as microbes digest the material, making it more valuable to use in landscape work.
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The shadows are still pronounced on Monday at mid-morning when this photo was recorded in the drone camera's beginner mode (reduced speed and distance from the pilot): about 80 or 90 feet above ground. The fall color forecast for peak viewing in west Michigan is the latter half of October. By then this scene will be transformed to gold, brown, orange, and red.
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How the dealers managed their inventory pre-computer is hard to imagine, but somehow they kept track of which parts were sold and which remained installed, as well as the location and life history of each junk car or truck.
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Michigan is rich in place names from Native American languages. And while the many immigrants settling this border area between Ionia County (west) and Clinton County (east) were of German stock, they chose Pewamo (Native American) for the village near the Grand River in this case but nearby chose Fowler and Westphalia (both in Germany) as the village names.
This photo shows the remnants of woodland that covered the ground before farmers cleared most of it away. Machine-planted precision rows of corn fill much of the space, but in around the time of Covid in 2019 and later, the sand mining began at the left side of the photo, convenient to the highway running through the middle of the photo.
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Looking south to the downtown of Grand Rapid, the very last few feet of Riverside Park can be seen along the bottom of this photo from above the treetops. The long, grassy and tree covered park extends perhaps a mile to the north, behind the drone's camera lens.
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In the low light of LED lamps and car headlight ton show the road surface, the drone camera allows relatively long exposures, thus blurring the moving vehicles and also shaking slightly from the quadcopter's own jostling.
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The last passenger service ended in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but freight continued to travel this east-west line until around 1990, going between Detroit and Grand Haven (then by rail ferry to Milwaukee at one time, at least). Talk of making a rail trail from the steel rail, stone ballast and thousands of creosote-soaked railroad ties began with a few years of rail services ending. But it took another 10 years to gather public interest, volunteers, funding sources to pay the track owners, and to secure the MDOT permissions to break ground on the conversion from trains to non-motorized human traffic.
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With the morning sun coming into the frame from the left, the distant water tower catches a full blast of the bright light. It is a beacon on top of the hill on the horizon, flanked by the busy north-south Fuller Street.
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Part of this end of today's Riverside Park was cultivated by residents of the Home for Civil War Veterans, opened in 1886, about 20 years after the US Civil War ended in 1865. it was mostly a self-sustaining enterprise: veterans who were able-bodied but unable to live on their own due to (mental or physical) health troubles, or who simply were impoverished, could grow crops, fruits and vegetables, and raise animals to butcher on the premises located to the right of this photo. Now those first residents mostly lie in the adjacent cemetery, along with many subsequent generations of military veterans since that time.
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According to the slideset presented by the city of Grand Rapids and the architects, the slope from the playground trees down to the playing fields will remain in place to separate the new parking design and traffic flow (where the old building currently is) from the new classrooms that will occupy most of the right (east) half of the playing fields.
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Rising above the treetops the highest buildings stand out from the rest of the built landscape in this photo.
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The 1800s recipe for carbonated cola sold under the enduring brand name of Coca-Cola did once contain small amounts of narcotic along with sugar as active ingredients. But that was several generations ago. Since the days of 6 oz. bottles, now there are cans in diverse volumes as well as plastic containers in many sizes. This photo to the southwest of Grand Rapids city center and less than 1/4 mile south of the zoo shows part of the paved biking/walking trail along the left side of the photo, as well as a bottling factory for portioning Coke and transporting it onward to places for final distribution.
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In 1925 there were a minority of households with a personal, gas-powered vehicle and the training to operate and maintain their four-wheeled contraption. Since volumes of traffic were seldom heavy, the science of signage, traffic signals, and design specifications for speed limits and curve radius were not entirely fixed firmly. But by the time of this intersection of the Interstate I-96 was built post-WWII with President Eisenhower's blessing, the number of cars and trucks had increased and standards for road design and traffic control had advanced a long way. Taking a cue from Hitler's Autobahn network (1 km per 5 km should be straight and level so that aircraft in an emergency could land), the current highway size and performance characteristics are intended for sustained speeds of 80 mph.
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Just before lunchtime on Tuesday the traffic is light here on the south edge of St. Johns, Michigan.
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The summer day is already uncomfortably hot, but the scores of shoppers parked here gladly go shopping where the interior is cool, the lights are bright and the prices are familiar - oftentimes reasonable, too. The light-colored roof membrane reflected much of the solar heat, thus making air-conditioners do less work to cool the indoors.
Seeing the parked cars all in a single view, some of the color patterns are visible. A sizeable proportion are white and another portion - though less than the white ones - seem to be black. Of the remaining colors, some are 'sangria' (red wine) and some are silver. Only a very few are some other color - probably blue. Seldom will there be yellow, orange, green, or brown, for example.
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Only a bit of a treetop at the bottom right of the photo belongs to the park, the land at the far side is part of the interstate right-of-way in this view to the north and northwest.
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Capturing the distant display on video and then extracting a frame or two makes it easier to choose a peak moment than trying to guess when to press the button for still photos. One difference, though, is that the video dimensions are 16:9 (aspect radio) and photo dimensions are 4:3 to use the entire sensor (also 4:3). So the JPG has more pixels than the freeze frame does (4000x3000 pixels =12 mpx versus the freeze frame edited and cropped as 2447x1376 pixels).
Since this camera and aerial drone are meant for hobbyists, not working professionals, the range in light values (sensitivity to extreme bright and dark areas in the same frame) shown here is very limited: either blindingly bright, or deepest dark. Probably launching this drone just behind the assembled crowds at the firework location would give much better lighting and picture results.
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In the early light of Sunday morning the spring colors of trees now in blossom or else proceeding with new leaves gives patches of green to the expanse of trees extending into the distance.
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Now that the sun is above the horizon and long shadows can be seen on the expanse of cattails, it is only the farthest edge that directly receives the beams of sunlight, making them golden.
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Traffic flow varies widely: from peak use at holiday time and during commuter hours to sparsely traveled roads in the dead of night or early on holiday mornings.
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Small businesses are challenging to organize, open, and sustain for long years. Many do not get through the ups and downs of cash flow in the first 12 months. So the commercial real estate at the center of the village probably have changed hands, from one owner to the next, many times in the decades before this. Viewed from the drone camera to show the scene below in a wide-angle picture invites daydreams, and hindsight that floats freely across the decades.
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A timelapse of the entire building project is not very practical, but a series of process photos might be a good way to appreciate all the steps: prepare the site, lay foundations, erect the skeleton (frame) and prepare for plumbing and wiring that ties into the fittings placed into the foundation, roofing and enclose the space before doing interior walls and finishing work. Demolish the old building and salvage what is valuable (wooden flooring, decorative features, mementoes) before creating the traffic patterns and parking areas.
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Around the time of sunset the warm color of the fading light shows the beach is two or three times as wide as 2024. Prolonged periods of low rain and snow seem to be part of the changing patterns of the climate filled with carbon in the air and sea. Burning millennia of petroleum and coal deposits all at once during a few generations releases all that once lay quiet underground.
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Surrounding trees are slow to catch fire with fall color since few chilly nights have ignited them. But this one is not waiting for the rest. The shorter daylight hours and cooling nights have put this one ahead of the rest in the morning light.
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Some birds fly mostly between ground and tree-top altitude, but others have a wider view and longer range to cover. So this drone perspective represents those higher flyers not far from the city zoo in the southwest corner of Grand Rapids.
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Several pieces of heavy equipment rest after their day's work to rearrange the ground of this formerly hilly building site at the corner of Leonard Street NE and Lafayette Street NE.
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New structures, landscaping, lighting and seating give this spot next to the Grand River an inviting and fresh look. Since it is next to the convention hall, probably there will be many visitors from out of town, and they will particularly be glad for the chance to enjoy the view while taking a break from their meetings.
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Unlike the still photos, this is a single frame taken from the video recording. Since the movies are recorded at 29.97 frames per second (30 fps), it is possible to choose the very best frame to export as a standalone still image suitable for editing and sharing.
At the top left is the existing school, Aberdeen Elementary, about 100 years old and solidly built. This is likely the final instructional year, or certainly the next-but-final year since the progress on the new combined Palmer + Aberdeen elementary will take shape in the coming months.
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