“Wide Open Spaces” She needs wide open spaces Room to make her big mistakes She needs new faces She knows the high stakes Dixie Chicks – Wide Open Spaces (1998) Usually, I don’t rely on small and light action-cameras to capture high quality aerial images. Instead, I use a smaller, relatively light mirrorless photo camera, […]
Multirotor
The making of ..
Sunday afternoon, ‘golden hour’ at the San Diego Country Estates, let’s launch Icarus and take some aerial photos. The weather is nice and clear, there is little to no wind this afternoon, and two batteries are charged, so that should be a good opportunity to take some nice shots. Here is one of the more […]
A short history of flight
Dedicated to long lost friends: Phoenix 1.0 and DragonFly Phoenix With this multi-copter, or “drone” how it’s unfortunately called by so many, it all began. It was in October 2013, when Tom built his first Tri-copter, with wooden booms and a simplistic flight-controller. What I would call “a natural”, it was amazing seeing him fly […]
Battle of the cheap GoPro stand-ins
The GoPro Hero is a great camera and it is most likely the action camera that’s providing the best quality currently possible, given the constrains defining the category. However, the GoPro Hero is also expensive, which becomes a considerable issue, when an action camera gets mounted on a multi-copter, which happens to crash and also so […]
Dawn to Dusk
San Diego Country Estates, commonly referred to as the Estates, is located in the San Vicente Valley, bordered on all sides by rolling hills with the exception of the prominent Mount Gower, located in Cleveland National Forest. There are only three main entrances and exits into the estates via the San Vicente Road, Old Julian […]
The elusive Black Phoenix
In Greek mythology, a Phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically reborn. This beautiful bird is said to live 500 years, and then, at the time of its death it creates a nest and while still in it, sets it on fire. Out of the fiery hot ashes of its own demise springs a […]