Akaroa New Zealand
Akaroa NZ – France meets Kiwis I’ve just returned from a business trip through Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Christchurch, New Zealand for the past few weeks. After work on our last day in the Christchurch area we took a drive down around route 75 south with no particular destination in mind, just driving through […]
Backyard Buck
Just “Bucking” around in the backyard This pretty boy was hanging out in the backyard the other afternoon trying to get the attention of a couple doe in the trees on our empty lot. Luckily he was too busy watching his girlfriends to notice the dumb human with the camera. If this boy knows whats […]
Back on the road again
On the road again … Tomorrow I’m back on the road again for a 17 day business trip to Australia (Sydney) and New Zealand (Auckland and Christchurch) for some PCI assessment work, and general information security meetings and reviews with folks in our APAC offices. I do love New Zealand, and Auckland in particular. This is my […]
NY Jets vs Redskins (Go JETS!)
NY Jets vs Washington Redskins – Week Six For my birthday over the summer, my wife ex got the family tickets to the NY Jets / Washington Redskins game at MetLife Stadium yesterday. I’m a long suffering Jets fan, she a long suffering ‘Skins fan and they rarely play each other. The winner would have […]
October – November Travel
Too much travel, too little time … Over the next eight weeks, I will be traveling … well pretty much around the world. I have a PCI conference in Vancouver, British Columbia to attend, some meetings in one of my company’s Boston offices, and then … audits down in Australia and New Zealand. Somewhere over […]
Sunset over Albrightsville
Sunset photos from 100 Feet over Albrightsville Still getting the hang of the Phantom 3 – as well as third party applications. Tonight it finally stopped threatening to rain, and the wind died down here in Albrightsville Pennsylvania, so I took out the drone and fired up a new app I grabbed: AutoPilot (iOS: App Store) and […]
Phantom 3: Skinned Alive
Phantom 3 Custom Skin and Dyed Props Well, the weather outside is crap, so no flying the drone today; besides, I’m feeling like the weather – crap. So what am I to do? Oh! My order of a WWII Nose Art Skin for the Phantom 3 Professional arrived this week – and I spent a […]
Phantom 3: New Firmware & Functionality
DJI Firmware Update and New Functions – Phantom 3 DJI released a firmware update (1.4.0010) for the Phantom 3 Professional (as well as others) this morning, and updates to their iOS (v2.2.0) and Android (v2.1.0) DJI GO applications. I spent time updating the firmware on the bird, updating my iOS device, calibrating (and re-calibrating) the IMU (Inertial Measurement […]
Phantom 3: Final Propeller Dye Job
Final colors for the propellers, a skin, and more I really like the idea of dying the plastic propellers for the Phantom 3, and have been playing around with a number of different mixes to get what I am looking for. The final product is in the image below. The reds and blues are the same […]
Phantom 3: Testing PolarPro Filters
Phantom 3: Polar Pro Filters Polarizing and Neutral Density Filters One of the things that annoys the crap out of me about the Phantom 3 Professional is that it comes with only a UV filter to protect the lens. The photos it captures really suffers from the lack of a polarization filter, and in a lot of cases, neutral […]