TNVC Nightfighter 1 - Alliance, OH - July 2016

A few photos from this last weekend at the Alliance PD training range with Don from TNVC. Full gallery available here.

Night Fighter Level 1 is designed to arm students with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of night vision operation and use. Beginning with gear choice and setup, the class provides students the tools for learning to safely / effectively move, shoot, and communicate in low-light/no-light environments. Students will participate in a variety of movement, stalking, and live-fire exercises aimed at producing a core competency with night vision goggles, lasers, and white light.
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Shooting Training Courses

Just updated the events section of the portfolio with a couple shots that I took while covering and participating in some training courses. I've partnered with a number of firearms trainers to provide them with high quality photos to include with their after action reports (AARs) and marketing materials. If you're a firearms educator, I'd love to come out and take some photos and video for you. I'll definitely be bringing my rifle along to learn something along the way, too :)

Here's where I upload galleries for student download and printing.

Provided aerial video services for Black Heart Consulting's Sniper Course.

Going aerial

I've recently gotten into the aerial flight and photography game with something called a Phantom 2 from DJI, who have an office in Austin, TX and are based out of Hong Kong. This particular multirotor has four motors and is operated by a set of joysticks over 2.4 GHz. It holds a GoPro Hero 3-series camera with a stabilized gimbal and I've set it up with a first-person-view (fpv) system that allows me to receive a live video feed at the ground.

It sure has been a blast, with a bunch of learning along the way. Here's a couple of stills:

And here's a few videos that I've put together of flights here in Pittsburgh and from a recent trip to the coast of Maine:

Boyd

I went for a walk this afternoon down Main Street in small-town Jenks, OK. It seems like 80% of the stores on the street are antique shops, and I stopped in a couple to see their remnants of the past. At the American Heritage Antiques shop, I met a man named Boyd. He told me that he because AHA is open seven days a week, he occasionally fills in for the shopowner on the weekends to give him a break. They had a bunch of very nice vintage pocketwatches, and Boyd and I talked about the 1886 Elgin that I got from my grandmother's estate. He taught me about watch fobs and showed me some examples from insurance companies from the '40s.

When I asked Boyd if I could take his picture, he said to be careful, because he wasn't sure if my camera would survive.

Boyd