Happy New Year, Resolutions, and Housekeeping
Happy New Year (Resolutions) 2016! Another New Year’s come and gone, and everyone will be rushing like mad to make, keep and then ultimately regret their New Year’s Resolutions. Some will promise to lose a couple pounds, exercise, get organized, write their generation’s Great American Novel, or simply to stop procrastinating about 2015’s resolution that died […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
DJI – New Phantom Firmware
Phantom Firmware: Follow Me to the Waypoint’s Point of Interest! Engadget reports that the DJI Phantom 3 series of drones (of which I own the 3 Professional) are getting a Phantom firmware update next week (7 Sept 2015) to fill some feature gaps (!!!) that have been widely panned by owners on a number of forums, and […]
More Phantom Photos – then a crash
The tree jumped out in front of me … honest officer Flying the Phantom UAV around after work, playing with the controls, got a bit more comfortable so I took it up between 350 and 400 feet and out into the forest somewhere around 500 feet. Got a couple good images, which I cleaned up in […]
Phantom 3 Drone Selfie – “Drelfie”?
I’m lookin’ at you lookin’ at me lookin’ at you… Still learning how to fly the Phantom and control it with fine grained actions. I took the bird up to the FAA limit of 400′ above ground, and then came down in a nice tight spiral till I stopped right in front of me and […]
Phantom 3: Video up to 400′
Phantom 3 – What went up … … didn’t crash 🙂 As posted earlier, I picked up my Phantom 3 the other day, and lo’ and behold, I have a vacation day today – funny how that happens 🙂 Today, I went to try and fly at Beltzville State Park, as I found a page at the […]