You may have been re-directed to my photography page if you were looking for Shane’s Flying Disc Show. Dream Weaver just blew me away. I could only get so much help from Go Daddy before they refused to help me get through the hard parts of web pages, like connecting FTP sites with Dreamweaver and Go Daddy.
I am utilizing Facebook, FlickR, Youtube and WordPress to bring you Shane’s Flying Disc Show and Shane K. Smith Photography. I have been a photographer and Flying Disc Thrower since elementary School. I made my first money with a camera in High School and my first money with a Frisbee in 1978. I also made money by teaching Tennis since I was 13. I am writing this in 2020.
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I love my 2022 BMW R 1250 GSA, Sade. I’ve only been stranded three times in three years. That compares to once or twice a week with my Harley 1994 Heritage Softail, Jade. Jade has made a great paper weight. I miss the rumble sometimes. I was out on a midnight ride one night with Sade in 2022 and hit a nail. I rode the almost flat back tire to a quick stop shop. I made calls all night to get a tow until 9 am the next morning. I finally thought call the BMW shop! They were there in 45 minutes. A gas line seal had a leak and I didn’t want to crank it smelling gas. I had also set the bike down on it’s side because my knee revolted. James from BMW came to the rescue and did that amazing superman lift where he walked it up with a backward lift!
This was a Roku cam. This is a technique move by James. I’ve seen it on videos and I tried it myself. I just couldn’t do it. One time my neighbor Gary and I lifted it in Tandem. I’ve hauled and lifted my entire life and even worked for a moving company. This is an art form. I only wish I took a better video!
20251211 I took off for a winter ride. I hadn’t cranked the bike in a week. However she fired right up. I tempted the rush hour traffic but didn’t feel like getting involved in a three way drafting event. I could have been smashed by a propane truck followed by a utility truck and a car. Then two cars in opposite directions would have finished me off if the propane explosion didn’t!
My goal for today was to shake off all the bad news and go look at Lake Thom-a-Lex and to test my first effort at cleaning sensor spots. I had three cameras to clean. The Nikon D7000 is a learner’s Nikon that is doubling for me as a gopro for my bike. It came out of hibernation because GoPros just don’t cooperate. However the sensor on the D7000 was dirty and left spots on my last ride. My wife and I went in for the sensor cleaning together. We got the worst spots but I can still see a very faint one that I need to go after. I’ve learned that even with a wind sock on a microphone that the wind noise audio is to hard to listen to unless I adjust the volume with Final Cut Pro.
When I got to the lake and was ready to come home I pushed the starter and heard starter noise/nothing. I backed off. Second time I hear starter noise then nothing. I waited five minutes thinking I could sneak up on it and start her up. Starter noise then nothing. So cussing helped me get started on rescue. Somehow James from BMW in Greensboro made it to The Lake before my wife did. We barely made it out the gate before closing time. But what a great place to get stuck. My bike was due a service call anyway. I’ll either need a new battery or have to buy a trickle charger to keep the first battery that is three years old some extra life. I forgot that the D7000 makes a 20mb photo. That was at a time when I phones were making 2mb photos.
When James got there Sade cranked right up! I’ll trust my instinct and let them do an inspection!
2025 has been a bad year for batteries for me. I need two for the truck, three for the trailer, One for the scooter and one for my motorcycle. But don’t confuse this with me being ungrateful. They are good problems to have. I wish they made a trickle charger for Humans!
Snot nose Shane testing a wind breaker filter. It won’t work.
Listen to all that wind noise and I’m not even riding yet. This was just seconds before that battery began to laugh at me!
I decided to break this video and a few stills down in shorter bursts.
I like Mr Shane’s Cookies! I felt right at home. It was like a wonderland of Cookies! The second I opened the door the aroma of cookies was intoxicating! It is the kind of place that people hold the doors open for each other. The staff was sharp and nice and they were legitimately happy! I got that sense that this is a fine oiled machine and these people have done this before. I watched a 24 foot Ryder truck come to the dock. I had a great conversation with a Desert Storm Vet that liked motorcycles as much as I do. We were both interested in the custom canes that a 93 year old employee makes! The cookies live in an air conditioned warehouse before they are shipped and they don’t sit long. Ten Million cookies come out of this custom warehouse out of the shipping department which has a nice dock with a Moravian star hanging for the season. The boxes and cans are stacked perfectly. Through the front doors customers buy individual orders and can taste test every flavor. The office is to the left as you walk in. To the right is the customer serving area. And to the rear are large windows where you can see the bakers hand making the cookies on ergonomically friendly stations. It takes four months for the cutters to become efficient cutting. A sign on the window welcomes photographers! Over Ten Million cookies a year go out those doors! They also have specialty drinks that are cold. The warehouse is located along beautiful country roads surrounded by farms. I’ll be back!
By the time I was ready to go home I walked out with two kinds of cookies and two chicken pies.
I think by the time I made it to the car I was hearing the song Honey Honey! Sugar Sugar! You are my candy girl and I can’t stop lovin’ you!
The above photos are reduced from a .nef large file to a smaller file made to fit into a web page. If you see a photo you like don’t copy one of those. I have made a large file available for easy download on another page. They are like the full flavor version for photos! Those are in the adobe link.
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