If you turned round from yesterday’s image, this is what you would have seen. 🙂

The Other View

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 16:13:52
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture5.6
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

After we finished our hike through the Baths, we went up to a little restaurant on the top. It was a perfect place from where to launch the quadcopter. Sometimes when flying you forget to look down because the views are often great all around but on this day, fortunately, I remembered.

Above the Bath(s)

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• Date Taken2017-01-30 12:18:33
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/400
• Aperture5.6
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

One of the few times I’ve been able to fly a quadcopter at Burning Man…

Above Burning Man

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• Date Taken2014-08-30 14:46:17
• CameraPHANTOM VISION FC200
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/8000
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length5.0 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

This is one of those situations where people seem to have a weird irrational reaction to a word. You almost always get a more positive reaction/conversation with people when you talk about quadcopter compared to drone. People are weird. Anyway, regardless of what you want to call them they are awesome, and it really unlocked a bunch of composition options when I moved to my first DJI model back in 2012 or so. Back then there was a bit of guess work involved where you had to attach a GoPro and then send the quadcopter up in the air to capture the images without any real way of knowing what you’d captured until you viewed the results on the device. Here’s one such image from Beijing. Shortly before I spent a little time in Chinese prison…

Quadcopters… not drones

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• Date Taken2012-01-09 06:40:09
• CameraHero3-Black Edition
• Camera MakeGoPro
• Exposure Time1/30
• Aperture2.8
• ISO210
• Focal Length2.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I thought it’d be fun to go through what turned out to be my top content on social media for the year and that continues today. Mainly I’ll focus on Instagram but I’ll drop in a few others towards the end as when they get traction (e.g. Flickr) the stats go crazy. So, here’s number 6 in my most viewed posts of 2023… does that make them the BEST? Not so sure, but for whatever reason they connected with people, or the algorithm!

Number 6

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• Date Taken2017-05-02 18:30:40
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/100
• Aperture4
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

Continuing the theme, this time with a total guess shot from a go-pro hanging off a quadcopter.

China 2014-3

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• Date Taken2012-01-11 03:28:21
• CameraHero3-Black Edition
• Camera MakeGoPro
• Exposure Time1/950
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length2.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I guess this is a lesser seen view of Hobbiton, or at least part of it. 🙂

Hobbiton in the Landscape

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• Date Taken2016-05-25 09:13:43
• CameraFC330
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/340
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramUnknown (58655)
• Exposure Bias

Here’s another from Hobbiton that I don’t think I’ve posted before. I decided to have a bit of fun with the processing on this one and give it a bit of a unique look… kinda magical in a way.

Into the Hobbiton Archives

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• Date Taken2016-05-25 09:23:05
• CameraFC330
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/300
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramUnknown (58655)
• Exposure Bias

Another of the lovely coastline over on Waiheke Island…

More Waiheke

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• Date Taken2016-05-26 12:01:26
• CameraFC330
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/1600
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramUnknown (58655)
• Exposure Bias-0.656

Some of the many amazing little bays around Waiheke Island. Such an awesome little place.

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• Date Taken2016-05-26 12:00:44
• CameraFC330
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/1500
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramUnknown (58655)
• Exposure Bias-0.656