My fire lookout slide shows are finished and posted (this is some awesome stuff).

[DemoTex]

Slideshow #1 - Fire season 2009 in the Deschutes National Forest from a fire lookout's perspective. Music: Carl Orff's "Schulwerk."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HfAYVnAHew

Slideshow #2 - Photos and videos in a dramatic slideshow of the October 3-4, 2009, blizzard at the East Butte Fire Lookout in the Deschutes National Forest. Music: Carl Orff's "Schulwerk" and Edvard Grieg's "The Hall of the Mountain King" from "Peer Gynt, Suite #1, Opus 46."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXY2na0RyN0

Slideshow #3 - The best photos of 2009. Fast-paced slideshow with minimum captions and no video. Music: Mendelssohn's "The Hebrides" (aka "Fingal's Cave") overture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCW8NUL-sA

[Blue_In_AK]

1. You have some very nice photos there.

I haven't gone through them all yet, but so far I'm impressed. :)

[tabatha]

2. What app did you use to put them togther?

The stands of trees (conifers) are awesome.

On edit: I just watched #3; Fingal's Cave is one of my all time favorite classics, and it suited the photos very well.

[DemoTex]

17. I used Photoshop Elements 7/8

I'm still learning. I'm taking a course on Photoshop starting in mid-January. I'm very weak with video file manipulation, especially the audio tracks.

[tabatha]

21. You did a great job.

I have been toying with the idea of getting Premiere - but the outlay is a bit much. I did not know that Elements did video. Does the video include 1920 x 1180?

[DemoTex]

25. I think Elements 7 does up to 1024 X 678 ..

But, again, I'm floundering with it. I do have Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8. I'm enrolled in a Photoshop course that starts on January 23.

[boston bean]

3. I just finished watching # 3. Fabulous! Gorgeous! Uplifting! Thank you!

[NYC_SKP]

4. Awesome! Splendid!

Thanks for posting these, how did you create them and upload to youtube?

PS, love the musical scores!

:thumbsup:

[lunatica]

5. Wow! You did yourself proud!

Great compilations!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear DemoTex!

Now, I've watched all 3 of the shows, and I must say how very impressed I am!

Great pics, great video, and I heartily approve of your musical picks!

Thank you so much for having brought these to us...

K&R

[spanone]

7. breathtaking!!! recommended

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[slipslidingaway]

8. Watching the first now - wonderful! n/t

[redwitch]

9. How beautiful!

Haven't watched everything yet but I plan to. DemoTex it looks so isolated up there. Do you get lonely? How many hours do you spend there?

[Arctic Dave]

10. BRAVO!! BRAVO!!

[likesmountains 52]

11. Thank you for those. I love Nick stalking the deer...he moves like a cat on the prowl.

[Delphinus]

12. #1

Really great pictures!

Was the dog really stalking, so stealthily and quietly, deer? Or was there something else?

I laughed when I saw the first day of Summer had snow on the railing.

You had quite a lot of rainbows show up in your pictures.

The music meshed well with the pictures.

Thank you for sharing.

[Frustratedlady]

13. Great photos! Thanks!

[NNN0LHI]

14. K&R

Nice work Mac.

Don

[blaze]

15. Wonderful!!

Just watched all three! What a treat!

Thanks so much for putting these together and sharing them with us. :)

[Delphinus]

16. #2

I realized, after watching this one, as fun as it might be, it had to have been cold and a L-O-N-G way to the bathroom!

Dick (if I got your dog's name right) seemed to absolutely love being in the snow! He was so full of life - a great companion for an outpost in the middle of nowhere.

You said the solar panel was covered with snow - where was that located? On the outpost building?

Again, great choice of music!

(typo)

[DemoTex]

19. There was a US Forest Servive solar panel attached to the lookout rail ..

There was also a big solar array about 100 yards away. But I was actually looking at my personal 30-watt panel that was off-camera.


Nick-Nick pouncing for a running ground squirrel.

[w8liftinglady]

18. awesome...spent a few sublime minutes lost in your pics

[zeemike]

20. Great slide show!

You should be proud.
And I bet your pooch thought he was in heaven play in that snow and stalking dear.
k&r

[Hekate]

22. I've only finished part 1 and it's just stunning. As always, thanks for sharing.

I've got to share this with a few folks I know....

Hekate

:yourock:

[Hekate]

23. Sublime musical selections, too. You done good. nt

[grantcart]

24. k/r

[Blue_Tires]

26. ttt...thanks for this...

[Duppers]

27. great job!

Tex, I always follow your posts. :)

[Blue_Tires]

28. kick

[DemoTex]

29. Shameless kick

:kick:

[madokie]

30. Yes they are

I enjoyed them immensely, grand daughter and I watched them yesterday and she seemed to enjoyed them too especially the parts with Nick

[DemoTex]

31. It's a family-friendly show!

And Nick is a star. No .. THE star!

[madokie]

32. Are you planning on doing this again next year?

I've always been fascinated by towers. There was an older tower near here that has since been taken down and a new one put in its place but we went up the old one on a school field trip when I was in grade school. I still remember it well as it was a pretty day clear as a whistle and it seemed like i could see forever. It was an old wooden tower that was a good forty or fifty feet higher than the one they replaced it with or it seemed like it anyway. I remember thinking that I was higher than where the clouds would have been had there been any that day.

[DemoTex]

33. Yeppers. I'm outfitting now for the 2010 fire season.

My little Tacoma SR-5 4/cyl 2-WD did not cut the mustard. I'm looking for a truck camper (Lance?) for a Tundra (big V-8 & 4X4). Otherwise, I'll go with a big Ford truck (F-250 or F-350) and a bigger slide-in camper.

I need 10-ply tires for the volcanic rocks on the FS-750 up to the lookout. I priced 10X tires at Costco today .. $333/tire for Michelins. I will buy them. It is worth it, knowing what I know now.

[madokie]

34. I'll be looking forward to the fire season on several levels this year

and I must admit one of them is I'm sick of this cold ass weather we've been having for the last 5 weeks or so. Heading for a big 0 degrees tonight.

The Ford idea sounds good to me as I'm a life long ford man. The diesel in this years ford f series is an in house design and from what I'm reading about it it is one awesome engine.

[DemoTex]

35. Yep .. the new Ford diesel is coming out in March ..

It looks awesome! I've only gone Toyota because the local general manager is a good friend and neighbor. I can get the Tundra at his cost, MOL.

[stevedeshazer]

36. Great stuff.

I enjoyed the scenery, which I'm familiar with. Three Sisters, Broken Top, Fort Rock, Christmas Valley, and China Hat (I think?).

Looking forward to next summer's dispatches.

[DemoTex]

37. China Hat indeed ..

[Born_A_Truman]

40. Very enjoyable Mac...

What will you take this year that you didn't have last year? What will you leave home that you brought last year?

[gratuitous]

38. Very nice, now knock it off

We don't tell people outside the state about the ice-nay eather-way in the ummer-say. Got it?

[DemoTex]

39. I understand your concern ..

So I won't mention the lack of sales tax, the gas pumping deal, or the general wonderfulness of the Oregon people (especially regarding pedestrians). No. Not a word! Shhhh. Great state ... naw .. shhhhhhhhhhh.

[janx]

41. Wonderful slide shows!

:hi: