Stillwater St Croix River Valley Fireworks

Afton Minnesota Drone Light Show

Fireworks Videos and Images

Drone Aerial Pictures Over Stillwater Minnesota Downtown Summer 2023 FireworksClick on above image to view, shop and buy Fireworks Images & Prints

2024 Winter Fireworks Stillwater MN

2023 4th July Fireworks Stillwater MN

2023 February Fireworks Stillwater MN

2022 Twinkle Party Fireworks Stillwater MN

July 4th 2022 Stillwater Fireworks Video

Winter Fireworks 2021 Downtown Stillwater MN

August 2021 Stillwater Lift Bridge Celebration

Marine on St. Croix 3rd of July fireworks aerial drone view
Marine on St. Croix July 3rd 2019

Downtown Stillwater 4th of July fireworks aerial drone view
Downtown Stillwater 4th of July 2019

Having an FAA Part 107.29 waiver enables Pictures Over Stillwater to fly 24 hours a day including at night weather permitting. In addition to having additional high-intensity multi-colored strobe lights (red, green, white)  visible from 3 miles on our aircraft, Part 107.29 operations also includes having trained visual observers (VOs) as part of our night safety crew as well as keeping aircraft (e.g. dones) within visual line of sight.

Fireworks Videos

Stillwater July 4th fireworks (Long version)

Stillwater July 4th fireworks (short finale)

 

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When in downtown Stillwater Minnesota stop in and visit Art n Soul on the corner of Mainstreet and Chestnut (across from Leo’s) to check out some of our work including post cards, puzzles, framed prints and other items.

Early March Morning Lake Elmo Aero Airplane Ride Sightseeing

Early March Morning Lake Elmo Aero Airplane Ride Sightseeing

Collection of images (still and video) from recent Early March Morning Lake Elmo Aero Airplane Ride sightseeing trip.

Series of 360 interactive immersive videos from sightseeing flight.

Our sightseeing trip started at Lake Elmo Airport taking off on Runway 4 (one of if not the shortest paved runways in Minnesota) and cruising over east metro above Lake Elmo, Oakdale, Maplewood and on into Downtown St. Paul Airport (Holmand field) where we do a touch and go.

From there we head southeast out over Woodbury before turning east towards Afton and crossing the St. Croix River south of Hudson Wisconsin.

We follow the St. Croix River north passing over Hudson, North Hudson, St. Joe and Houlton turning southwest west of Somerset Wisconsin.

We then head south along the St. Croix river on the Minnesota side passing above Stillwater before wrapping up our morning flight back at Lake Elmo Airport.

Big thank you to Lake Elmo Aero (www.lakeelmoaero.com) and pilot Jon Adsit for a fantastic flight experience. You can get in touch with Lake Elmo Aero via info@lakeelmoaero.com and 651-777-1399 as well as via CTAF/Unicom: 122.8

2019 Summer Open House Lake Elmo Aero at Lake Elmo Airport

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Check out some images from summer 2019 Lake Elmo Aero open house

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Inaugural Run Stillwater St Croix Crossing 5K Half Marathon

Various still and video images from July 27, 2019 Inaugural Run Stillwater St Croix Crossing 5K and Half Marathon. The event started at 7AM in Houlton Wisconsin with runners finishing in downtown Stillwater via new St. Croix River Crossings Bridge.

Inaugural Run Stillwater St Croix Crossing 5K Half Marathon

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Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Visits Lake Elmo Washington County St Croix Valley

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Visits Lake Elmo Washington County St Croix Valley. The UP Big Boy is one of if not the largest still operating steam locomotives in the world weighing in at over one million pounds.

Union Pacific Big Boy  Visits St Croix Valley

The following video and still images show the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 visiting Lake Elmo Minnesota in Washington County before crossing the St. Croix River at Hudson continuing on to other destinations in Wisconsin.


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Learn more about Steam power and UP Big Boy via the following links

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/4014/

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

http://www.railgiants.org/Big-Boy-Excursion-Info.php

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2019 Spring Flood Season

Visit our Flood Flooding coverage page including 2023 content.

It is 2019 Spring Flood season in the upper Midwest including Minneapolis St. Paul twin cities metro area along with western Wisconsin, eastern Dakotas and elsewhere. In the Minneapolis St. Paul twin cities metro area, there are three major rivers all of which flow into the mighty Mississippi river, not to mention numerous smaller rivers, streams, creeks as well as other runoff.

 

 

For the 2019 Spring Flood season, in the Twin Cities metro, western Wisconsin, western as well as southern Minnesota as well as eastern Dakotas, February record-setting snow fall are now melting. Besides record February snow fall, there was a lack of snow cover in the Twin Cities metro and surrounding area in early January to protect against the extreme cold, thus driving frost deeper into the ground.

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With frost being four plus feet deep, snowmelt that would normally start to seep into the ground is having to run off elsewhere which results into the area lakes, ponds, creeks, streams, small rivers and ultimately the Mississippi and other large rivers.

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NOAA Weather Service St. Croix River Stillwater Forecast


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Hundreds sign up for flood prep along St. Croix River in Stillwater

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2019 Spring Flood Content

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Stillwater Lift Bridge heavy maintenance

The historic Stillwater Lift bridge went under heavy maintenance since it closed to vehicle traffic with the opening of the new St. Croix Crossing Bridge in 2017. Following are various images during the heavy maintenance including when a section of the bridge was removed to allow boats to pass while lift section was down for work.


Wintertime in Stillwater Minnesota Holiday Lights

Stillwater Lift Bridge Images and Video

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Check out our page here showing the new for 2018 Stillwater Lights experience located in downtown Stillwater MN. For those who are into cars, tractors, motors and motorcycles, checkout our coverage of the 10th Annual Withrow Tractor and Classic Car show here, along with our 2018 In Review Aerial Views here.

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Dynamic Fall Weather St. Croix River Inversion Fog Dragon Breath

Dynamic Fall Weather St. Croix River Inversion Fog Dragon Breath. One of the things I enjoy about living in the Minneapolis St. Paul metropolitan area is the changing weather and seasons, if you don’t like it, wait and will change. That has been the scenario past week or so here the Stillwater St. Croix River valley eastern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin areas. So far in the past week, we have seen highs near 70 lows of freezing frost, clear and windy to wall clouds and tornadoes. We have also seen partly cloudy with calm windows high humidity between rains including inversion fog layers on the St. Croix River.

Some drone-based aerial views above and around Stillwater as well as St. Croix River valley over the past week. These include visits to Stillwater Fire Department open house, Art Fair, fall colors, St. Croix Sailing School High School Regatta in Hudson, new St. Croix Crossing bridge and much more.

From a sUAS or drone flying perspective, strong winds are a challenge and even more so are rain. However, in between those conditions, there have been some great opportunities to go upstairs and gets some different and unique perspective views that past week.

For example, check out the following video that I captured the other evening of inversion fog layer over St. Croix River valley shortly before evening severe storms arrived.

Dynamic fall weather resulted in Layer of Inversion Fog (Dragon Breath) Over St. Croix River flows south under Arcola Soo Line High Bridge towards Stillwater MN.

Some Tips, Recommendations and Reminders

Keep the weather in mind, head in the clouds and feet on the ground meaning watch the sky along with weather, while you are safe on the ground. Weather can change quickly, so be ready, plan ahead, watch forecasts and be prepared. When you contact any airports or air traffic control for the areas you will be flying (e.g. for those in Stillwater area, the downtown riverfront is controlled airspace), ask for conditions at their location to compare with your own local. If you are flying an sUAS or drone, keep your eyes on the aircraft, if using first-person view (FPV) goggles have one or more visual observers (VO).

Pay attention to surface winds along with those aloft, look around where you are going to be flying. Look at flag poles which way they are pointing, the direction of clouds, smoke from chimneys and other indicators. Also, note that winds can vary at the surface as well as a few feet to hundreds of feet up in the air. Another consideration is how the windows can be more turbulent around buildings, bluffs, hills and other structures, something to keep in mind. Note that while your drone may have automation and is fine once up in the air (watch out for fly-away during high winds), the landing may be a challenge. Likewise, not if, rather what happens when your software based automation AI enabled drone stops working and you need to land manually? How will you avoid a crash? The answer is being prepared.

Something I have noticed is that changing weather, the birds can be an indicator of when to land or get out-of-the-way if you are flying FPV mode with no VO, how will you see the birds behind or on your sides? Likewise, keep the aircraft in visual line of sight (e.g. don’t fly beyond where you can see it) so that you can recall quickly before developing weather has an impact. Also if you are using filters, adjust accordingly for example if cloudy try an ND4. Have fun, however, be prepared, be safe.

Check out our post about Winter Motorcycle Ice Racing here, Stillwater Lights here, and 10th Annual Withrow Tractor and Classic Car show here, along with our 2018 In Review Aerial Views here.

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