https://blimpphoto.com/articles/visitor-channels-and-what-an-aerial-photo-is-for/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/visitor-channels-and-what-an-aerial-photo-is-for/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A look at how a page becomes findable through search, direct, referral, social, email and AI assistants, and what a low-altitude aerial photograph is actually articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/checking-a-builder-in-public-registers/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/checking-a-builder-in-public-registers/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to verify a contractor against public registers before equipment reaches the site, and what a photograph can document during the works. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/walk-through-and-photograph-two-records-of-a-house/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/walk-through-and-photograph-two-records-of-a-house/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A walk-through and a photograph record different things about a house. What each method captures, and where the two disagree, for buyers observing before articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/reading-a-number-before-trusting-it/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/reading-a-number-before-trusting-it/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Public property data, medians and per-square-metre prices, and what a low-altitude view adds to a building record before a figure is used. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/pointing-at-small-far-targets-optics-and-logs/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/pointing-at-small-far-targets-optics-and-logs/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Magnification, dark adaptation and a written logbook for small distant targets, set against the constraints of a camera flown close to the ground. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/the-machine-that-holds-the-frames-storage-cooling-repair/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/the-machine-that-holds-the-frames-storage-cooling-repair/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Storage, cooling and repair practice for a laptop that works outdoors: SSDs, thermal limits, dust, batteries and field checks. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/the-disk-that-fills-up-with-frames/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/the-disk-that-fills-up-with-frames/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to measure free space on a Mac before a capture day, read System Data and purgeable space, and decide which files may go without losing footage. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/a-log-that-outlives-the-session-storing-capture-days/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/a-log-that-outlives-the-session-storing-capture-days/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How a database engine stores, purges and exports the rows a low-altitude capture day produces, from schema design to Data Pump archives. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/1980s-camcorders-and-the-objects-you-can-still-date/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/1980s-camcorders-and-the-objects-you-can-still-date/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Camcorders, VHS tape and the objects of the 1980s: how to read a date code, a tape label and a serial number on gear found today. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/reading-terrain-from-above-in-a-2006-squad-shooter/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/reading-terrain-from-above-in-a-2006-squad-shooter/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How a 2006 squad shooter taught players to read maps from above: walkers, ruins, lakes, and the vocabulary a community kept for two decades. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/signal-chain-latency-from-camera-to-screen/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/signal-chain-latency-from-camera-to-screen/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Latency, test patterns and image loss between camera and screen: a practical look at the live video signal chain for low-altitude work. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/xmpp-for-field-crews-when-the-network-fails/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/xmpp-for-field-crews-when-the-network-fails/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jabber and XMPP as the fallback messaging layer for field crews: presence, stanzas, self-hosted servers and what survives a weak link. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/abap-syntax-and-keywords-as-a-working-checklist/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/abap-syntax-and-keywords-as-a-working-checklist/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT ABAP syntax, data types and the keyword index read the way a camera operator reads a pre-flight checklist: fixed order, fixed units, no improvisation. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/fuel-transfer-geometry-vs-camera-station/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/fuel-transfer-geometry-vs-camera-station/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How fuel moves between two aircraft in flight, read beside the station-keeping geometry a tethered camera platform must hold over a fixed site. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/digital-paperwork-for-a-portuguese-flight-request/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/digital-paperwork-for-a-portuguese-flight-request/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Portugal authenticates people online, what its information-society agency did from 2005 to 2012, and what a low-altitude operator can read from it. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/aerial-photos-on-a-page-formats-icons-checks/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/aerial-photos-on-a-page-formats-icons-checks/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Image formats and page weight, icon choice, performance checks and link rot for a page that has to carry an aerial photograph. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/a-mac-at-the-ground-station/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/a-mac-at-the-ground-station/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A field note on the laptop at the anchor point: how to choose a database client for a Mac, what SyBrowser did for SQL browsing from 1999, and how to schedule a capture session with the system's own tools. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/the-free-net-years-and-the-record-of-a-place/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/the-free-net-years-and-the-record-of-a-place/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A field note on the community networks that gave the public free dial-up access in the 1980s and 1990s, what they kept about their own ground, and what a dated low-altitude photograph adds to that record. articles https://blimpphoto.com/articles/aerial-photography-for-a-church-website/ https://blimpphoto.com/articles/aerial-photography-for-a-church-website/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A field note on what a tethered camera adds to a church's own website: the elevation that shows a building in its churchyard, the sizes a volunteer team can use, the description field, and who has to say yes before the rig goes up. articles https://blimpphoto.com/les-formes-me-caniques-et-la-conformite-slot-cem/ https://blimpphoto.com/les-formes-me-caniques-et-la-conformite-slot-cem/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A field note on the wired half of a low-altitude picture's path to storage: the CEM slot, the M.2 module, the cabled link, the compliance workshop and the receiver 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and on how to read what their specification figures actually promise on a real flight. articles https://blimpphoto.com/ A working archive of low-altitude aerial photography notes.