A lucky thing happened during my flight today, here's some photos.

[Cymruflyer]

Beautiful shots - I agree there is something very peaceful and surreal about the first photo of the park trees and shadows.

Did you notice the subtly placed bench in there?

 

[Cymruflyer]

Wait... You have to actually ask your wife for permission to fly?

I got married a week ago. Is this my future?

P.S the shots of those geese are downright fantastic. Well done, Sir.

No... Nooo, not at all, I wear the pants in this family, my wife just tells me which ones I can wear every morning. I only ask permission because I bought the Mavic 2 Pro for her, but to my GREAT surprise, she was not interested In it at all. Therefore, I politely ask her permission to take it out for a fly, that's all. Of course she keeps my balls in a little box in the back of the dresser and some times if I get to go out with the boys on a weekend and they're all taking theirs, I do ask just as a formality, if I may take mine as well. But, it's usually... no, you can go but the balls stay here. Uh ohh, wait she just came into the room gotta sign off. But congrats on your marriage, that first month is going to be bliss..

 

[Cymruflyer]

You might have to download a smaller file, it does take a while to load my end too but still bloody good, worth the wait does make me sick when people put brilliant photos on this forum only jealous.....

Well these are not big, only about 500+ KB with the largest being about 750kb. I greatly reduce the file size to thinking that would be enough. Do you think even at 500 KB that is too large?

 

[Jackcutrone]

Great shots.

 

[SCK]

being a waterfowler, those are some great photos. if the original resolution is enough to crop in on a goose or two and eliminate the cars in the background, they would be amazing. I am new to flying but one of my goals is to fly over my hunting spots to see what the birds are seeing.

 

[philbr118]

We finally had some snow that could be measured in depth, rather than just length, though the depth was minimal. Size does matter with snow fall, but I'm happy just see a white covering, I miss the snow, having lived in the Austrian Alps for a number of years, which by the way, is having an amazing winter snow fall right now.

Anyway, I digress. I asked permission from her indoors, she hates that so I shall say my wife, if I could quickly go out and get a few bits of film and stills at our local park about 5 mins. away, if I brought her tea in bed and gave the children breakfast. She agreed, so an hour after I had hoped to get out there, I was off. It was a bit on the cold side for no gloves, about 26f, though I did not intend to be out too long.

I took a square of wood floor tile along, to use as a launch/landing pad, set it all up in the warmth of the car, got out and took off. The sun came out, which I was hoping to avoid, because from a photographic point of view, what I was hoping to accomplish was to get flat light images of the black lines of the trees against the white snow. As it turned out, the sun helped to give some added interest, with the long shadows.

There was also a large gaggle of Canada Geese, not Canadian, as sooo many people wrongly call them, all in the middle of open ground near by. I thought, it might make an interesting shot right above them, with the long shadows showing them as silhouettes on the ground. I'd keep high enough not to scare them into flight. I was in the air working out which way would be best to fly to get over them, when something scared them into all taking off. Darn it all I thought, now they may not come back and land, but a quick prayer to the geese Gods had them circling back around and on the first pass I missed them, trying to get the camera tilt angle right and the position of the Mavic 2, plus trying to judge my height and theirs, in order to get things correct.

I thought I might try and follow them, but that was not working too well with trees being in the way a bit and I did not want to lose sight of the Mavic. So I flew back above me (for your drone police, and I am sometimes one myself, I did have permission to fly above myself) and waited to see if they might come back around, which they did. Then a miracle happened and they flew right over my head and I got some shots off and hoped for the best. Since it was all happening so fast, I could not look at the screen but just hoped I might get something out of it.

It was getting rather cold with no gloves and I decided to get a few quick shots of the trees and the lake shore, then get back and land before I had a low battery warning. I took a number of photos and have included one here, or maybe two, I have not decided yet. I have included several from the geese though, because when I got home and took a look, I was extremely pleasantly surprised to see that I could not have positioned myself more perfectly and the geese could not have done a better job of formation flying, if an Air Force had choreographed it. My height and their height was perfect, for my liking anyway. It would have been nice if I could have had a clear earth with some trees below but I shall settle for the edge of the car park. That is me down below (middle to lower centre) next to my vehicle.

It was well worth getting up early and braving the cold, even without gloves. I doubt if I shall ever get another set of images like these unless I stuff some geese and stick them on poles. Can't wait for more snow to come. Now I'm going to be told off for staying up so late!

Awesome pictures, what a stroke of luck !!

 

[Dave A]

Wonderful images and great timing.

 

[Cymruflyer]

Right, here is another one from yesterday that I have made even smaller as a file size and also dimensions wise. Let's see if this also get chopped at the bottom.

Okay I've come back to edit the text here. This one seems to have worked better, with that said, I went back to the others and realized that all I had o do to see the whole image on the other photos, was to simply click on the square of little squares on the bottom right of the image and then it popped open at the bottom to allow everything to be seen.

 

[Porky]

Well these are not big, only about 500+ KB with the largest being about 750kb. I greatly reduce the file size to thinking that would be enough. Do you think even at 500 KB that is too large?

I think it’s my slowwwww internet connection they loaded fine this time.

 

[Cymruflyer]

being a waterfowler, those are some great photos. if the original resolution is enough to crop in on a goose or two and eliminate the cars in the background, they would be amazing. I am new to flying but one of my goals is to fly over my hunting spots to see what the birds are seeing.

I would think the resolution is there to crop in on them and isolate a few. I enjoy shooting the seagulls from ground level as they swoop and dive for food, when I'm down at the lake shore. I have some great images from those shoots but with my DSLR, not the Mavic.

Having been a real pilot for many, many years, I can tell you that there is nothing more beautiful than the view you will have from the air looking down, seeing what the birds get to see every day. Those of you who have never taken to the sky only get to see mother nature in her less attractive view, her profile. But for those of us who have been fortunate enough to fly ourselves high in the sky, we've gotten to see mother nature at her most beautiful, looking at her right square in the face.

 

[BD0G]

Right place - Right time! The images are a treat!
I often forget how one can get some amazing abstract photos by flying over snow and pointing the camera straight down.

 

[Porky]

Oh I hope @Thunderdrones Doesn’t start a snow competition soon, don’t think I’d even bother entering

 

[BD0G]

Oh , good point because we can see the winner will be one of these photos. Now the bar has been set just that much higher!

I feel somewhat deflated now. LOL

 

[Porky]

Remember I’ve seen some of your photos @BD0G magical also

I must stop taking low resolution jpg’s now

 

[Former Member]

Oh I hope @Thunderdrones Doesn’t start a snow competition soon, don’t think I’d even bother entering

If there were any takers, I would.

 

[clovis09]

We finally had some snow that could be measured in depth, rather than just length, though the depth was minimal. Size does matter with snow fall, but I'm happy just see a white covering, I miss the snow, having lived in the Austrian Alps for a number of years, which by the way, is having an amazing winter snow fall right now.

Anyway, I digress. I asked permission from her indoors, she hates that so I shall say my wife, if I could quickly go out and get a few bits of film and stills at our local park about 5 mins. away, if I brought her tea in bed and gave the children breakfast. She agreed, so an hour after I had hoped to get out there, I was off. It was a bit on the cold side for no gloves, about 26f, though I did not intend to be out too long.

I took a square of wood floor tile along, to use as a launch/landing pad, set it all up in the warmth of the car, got out and took off. The sun came out, which I was hoping to avoid, because from a photographic point of view, what I was hoping to accomplish was to get flat light images of the black lines of the trees against the white snow. As it turned out, the sun helped to give some added interest, with the long shadows.

There was also a large gaggle of Canada Geese, not Canadian, as sooo many people wrongly call them, all in the middle of open ground near by. I thought, it might make an interesting shot right above them, with the long shadows showing them as silhouettes on the ground. I'd keep high enough not to scare them into flight. I was in the air working out which way would be best to fly to get over them, when something scared them into all taking off. Darn it all I thought, now they may not come back and land, but a quick prayer to the geese Gods had them circling back around and on the first pass I missed them, trying to get the camera tilt angle right and the position of the Mavic 2, plus trying to judge my height and theirs, in order to get things correct.

I thought I might try and follow them, but that was not working too well with trees being in the way a bit and I did not want to lose sight of the Mavic. So I flew back above me (for your drone police, and I am sometimes one myself, I did have permission to fly above myself) and waited to see if they might come back around, which they did. Then a miracle happened and they flew right over my head and I got some shots off and hoped for the best. Since it was all happening so fast, I could not look at the screen but just hoped I might get something out of it.

It was getting rather cold with no gloves and I decided to get a few quick shots of the trees and the lake shore, then get back and land before I had a low battery warning. I took a number of photos and have included one here, or maybe two, I have not decided yet. I have included several from the geese though, because when I got home and took a look, I was extremely pleasantly surprised to see that I could not have positioned myself more perfectly and the geese could not have done a better job of formation flying, if an Air Force had choreographed it. My height and their height was perfect, for my liking anyway. It would have been nice if I could have had a clear earth with some trees below but I shall settle for the edge of the car park. That is me down below (middle to lower centre) next to my vehicle.

It was well worth getting up early and braving the cold, even without gloves. I doubt if I shall ever get another set of images like these unless I stuff some geese and stick them on poles. Can't wait for more snow to come. Now I'm going to be told off for staying up so late!

Beautiful. The right place at the right time!

 

[AnotherMavicPilot]

Shh, don't tell him about the competition.

Edit: Fixed

 

[Cymruflyer]

Remember I’ve seen some of your photos @BD0G magical also

I must stop taking low resolution jpg’s now

There is nothing wrong with Jpegs, I shoot most of a wedding in Jpegs, as do many other wedding pros I know. Saves on file size, storage and time to correct files afterwards. If you set the camera up properly you will get a great shot in Jpeg. Difficult lighting scenes is another matter, that is when you want to shoot multiple images for HDR but even then Jpegs often work well, so best to shoot both Jpegs and RAW and see when good is good enough and save you all the post work for many of the images you capture. Don't be fooled into thinking that everything MUST be shot in RAW, not everyone talking about RAW only shooting, really knows what they are talking about.

 

[Bigbird48]

Beautiful Photos well done. I too am so Jealous

 

[LivinLarge]

Nice!