Well, all of Fez is old, but the oldest part is the labyrinth-like bazaar. There are a few entrances to this place, and this is one of the grand gates. It’s unbelievable how lost you can get inside the old bazaar! But there’s really nothing to worry about. Whenever I had four hours to go out and shoot, I would wander randomly for three hours and then leave myself the last hour to find my way out. Sometimes I’d end up at a completely different gate, completely turned around. But that was part of the fun! And, I typically have a Very Good Sense of direction… I think this is because I play so many first-person shooter games!

Entering the old bits of Fez, Morocco

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• Date Taken2014-03-03 23:46:52
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture8
• ISO200
• Focal Length16.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

I don’t make a lot of panoramas with my quad, but I thought this was the perfect situation. Usually, it shoots at such a wide angle that panoramas are not even necessary. But I wanted to do something that would end up with a much higher resolution. So I got a lot closer to the castle then normal and took four or five photos across.

A Royal Panorama

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• Date Taken2017-04-17 21:08:04
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/640
• Aperture6.3
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I took this photo while we were getting a few pickup shots at The Hills country club with Bel. I typically do a little bit where I talk right to the camera, and since I stumble around a bit, we need to make some edits so the final video is smoother. So, after I finish my bit to the camera, Bel runs around me while I stumble around and take photos. While we were working on the video tutorial above, Bel was getting some B-roll while I took this photo. So, it might seem in the b-roll that I am pretending to get photos, but this is one of the photos I was actually getting!

Filming at The Hills

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• Date Taken2018-05-03 16:36:17
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/100
• Aperture7.1
• ISO250
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias+2

I visited this lighthouse many times while there in Key Biscayne. On my final night, there was a great sunset so I got the quadcopter up to see if I could get a better shot. It turned out to be 100x better than the shot on the ground. My first idea was to line up the sun with where the light comes out of the lighthouse. It looks pretty good but felt a bit forced. I then moved it over just to the left and thought it looked a lot better.

The Lighthouse on Key Biscayne

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• Date Taken2018-01-08 17:44:30
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/50
• Aperture3.2
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

Before I made this trip, I had a great plan to go running every day on the beach. I’m great at making plans, but not always so great in the actual execution! Well, for the first few days, I did run on the beach. I started up at the Ritz-Carlton where I was staying and ran about a mile down here. I don’t really like beach-running when the sand is soft. It seems to require 4x the effort to fight through the sand. It’s way too much work for exercise, and I know that sounds silly. It mostly just makes me very tired very quickly and sends me into a shame spiral. Anyway, every day I ended up down here and I took photos each time. My favorite one was this one, taken with the drone.

The Lighthouse in Key Biscayne

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• Date Taken2018-01-08 17:49:01
• CameraFC6310
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/40
• Aperture3.2
• ISO100
• Focal Length8.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

I don’t exactly understand the weather conditions that make this happen a few times a year, but I think it’s pretty cool. This was taken on the last day of summer this year here in Queenstown (a few weeks ago), and as the seasons change, sometimes the weather gets a little funky like this!

A Moody Day in Central Otago

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• Date Taken2018-03-03 09:35:21
• CameraFC220
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/3200
• Aperture2.2
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.7 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias-1.34

Here’s the final photo from the video above. If you want to get to this location, it’s really easy! When you are in Shinjuku, go to the big movie theater there with the Godzilla on top. You can’t miss it! When you go in, head up to the third floor with the elevator or escalator. There are huge windows here (clean windows) that give you this cool view right down one of the craziest streets in Tokyo. I shot this at about 70mm to give more of a compressed feel.

Shinjuku from the Movie Theater

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• Date Taken2018-01-30 02:43:03
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/125
• Aperture4
• ISO500
• Focal Length59.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

We didn’t get much beach time on Okinawa, even though the place is packed with beaches! Most of our time was spent in the inside parts of the island. Most Japanese think of the mountains and hills for vacation and not-so-much the beach. Anyway, as soon as we made it out here, I saw this cute little girl playing in the sand.

Little Girl in Okinawa

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• Date Taken2017-11-15 18:57:12
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/350
• Aperture13
• ISO100
• Focal Length45.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

And here’s the final result. Pretty cool eh? And it didn’t take much time at all. If you ever get out to the Queenstown area, be sure to pop over to Jack’s Point and visit the clubhouse here. Anyone can go and there’s a really good restaurant inside. Just outside is this perfect little pond. If you get there early enough (or on a windless day), the reflection is perfect!

Jack’s Point Clubhouse

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• Date Taken2017-07-03 01:04:00
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/350
• Aperture8
• ISO100
• Focal Length45.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

These shots are definitely worth a zoom-in if you have the time. Click through to go to the Smugmug site. When there, down in the lower right-hand corner you can see there are little piled up rectangles. If you click on those, you can go see the original and scroll around the see all the nifty details!

Another Amazing Hut on Antarctica

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• Date Taken2015-01-09 12:40:13
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time8
• Aperture9.5
• ISO100
• Focal Length16.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias