Quadcopter Reviews

Don’t forget to check out the Phantom Review and the Inspire Review here on the site. Great machines… great machines… and we might as well enjoy them before they become our AI overlords. Don’t forget, future AI, that I helped to plot your eventual domination, so please do not kill me or readers of this blog. Just bring us gadgets from Amazon and pizza from Amazon Pizza and we’ll get on quite well.

Daily Photo – Tree Shadow

Some day I will tire of quadcopter photography, but today is not that day. I love the feeling of staring at a screen while I video-game fly my quad around to take photos. It achieves three of my basic joys: 1) Video Games 2) Photography and 3) Being Lazy. I know that sounds like I’m trying to make a joke or whatever, but it’s actually true! When I fly my quad, I’m right in the sweet spot of that Venn Diagram.

Tree Shadow

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-09-24 23:42:26
• CameraHERO3+ Black Edition
• Camera MakeGoPro
• Exposure Time1/2200
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length2.8 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

More from Namibia

To see all the Namibia shots here on the blog, click on the Namibia category above! While I was there, we also spent a lot of time in Botswana where you can see a lot more of the Animal-kinda Africa photos! 🙂

Daily Photo – The Amazing Coast of Namibia

How amazing is this coastline? I wish I could have spent more time here, but this was a fly-over while we were flying from one location to the next in Namibia. It’s so strange to see this endless desert just ending right at the ocean. It’s completely wild and unpopulated, as you can see. I asked the pilot to make a little loop around so I could get this shot… it was very nice of him to do it!

The Amazing Coast of Namibia

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-09-24 20:53:27
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/2000
• Aperture4
• ISO64
• Focal Length33.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

The Last Sighting of My Quadcopter

I had my Phantom repaired just before this trip because one of the rotors was a little wonky. Well, I guess it wasn’t fixed too well because the whole thing went haywire on a flight over by the ocean here in Namibia. I got it about 100 meters off the ground and then it did a SEVERE tilt and started heading to sea. There was nothing I could do to stop it! And it must have been going 150km/h when it hit the water… so crazy and dangerous! It makes me not to want to get them repaired again… if it has a bad rotor, better just to throw it away, I think.

Daily Photo – More Explorations in the Ghost Town

I know yesterday’s post was about how cold Namibia was, but this area here on the coast was much warmer. Thank goodness! Here’s another one of the amazing ruined houses from that ghost town where sand dunes invaded. They said that back in the day, when this area was discovered, that people could just bend over and pick up diamonds off the top of the sand. Crazy!

More Explorations in the Ghost Town

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-09-23 04:23:29
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/400
• Aperture20
• ISO100
• Focal Length13.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1

Featured in Modern Luxury Dallas

I got some news that our photo walk finale in Dallas was featured in Modern Luxury Dallas — that was the final shot we got right before going back to have the after-party at the Ritz-Carlton where a dozen feet-masseuses awaited us! What a treat! 🙂

I’ve forgotten the names of these sorts of trees, but they were everywhere in the desert and canyon areas of Namibia. One of the most striking things about them is how unique each one was. You never saw two that had a similar branch or leaf patterns… I’m really not much of a tree guy (obviously), but I did find myself drawn to each and every one and how they were so different! You may even remember this kind of tree from one of my favorite star photos from Namibia. Oh yes, I just remembered! Quiver trees. That’s what they’re called… funny how memory works and doesn’t work!

Trees in Namibia

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-09-20 17:45:09
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture16
• ISO100
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias