In a disorienting Beijing room, the familiar became surreal. Lights defied expectations, objects abandoned their usual places, and the mundane transformed into the extraordinary.
I didn’t make it to the Summer Palace until my final evening in Beijing during this trip. That turned out nicely though as I was graced with a lovely, delicate sunset. This place is also called the “Gardens of Nurtured Harmony”, a very welcoming name.
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…
This is a fun one perspective wise!
Continuing the theme, this time with a total guess shot from a go-pro hanging off a quadcopter.
Next up from China 2014…
It seems, looking back, that I might have been on a bit of a silhouette kick back in 2014. Both yesterday and today’s images go down that route… weird.
Playing with the ability to draw content in from the web… pretty accurate summary!
Here’s one of those shots from back in the olden days of early quadcopter flight when it was a case of strapping in a GoPro, sending it up there and guessing the best shots as you could only see the results when it returned to land. Turned out not too bad this one!
I was reading about that new Sony a7CR, compact full frame model. It reminds me a lot of the old NEX-7. I had some awesome adventures with that, it never let me down (e.g. the image below). So I can only imagine the full frame equivalent being fantastic… maybe it’s time to step away from the standard R series… hmmm…
