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I also love watching the pilot boats chasing the ships to get the pilot on board before the ship docks, not so much where I live but on my hols. We always know when a cruise ship is on its way, little pilot boat shoots out from the dock, then we see the pilot board the ship. CrackingThumbswayup
 
Being a member of instagram I’ve subscribed to the maritime post and see some cracking photos of cargo ships, gives you some ideas on getting better shots of our floaty things;) could believe how much they roll around in rough weather at seao_O think I’ll stay on dry land...

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Weather... rain today and tomorrow:confused: been looking at Google maps to see how much closer I can get “drive” to the wind turbines that are local to me. Would be good to get a nice sunrise/set photo of them, didn’t even think about using google maps..
 
I know that Place...Down the street is the abandon casion with the paddle wheeler...

Yes, yes the Emerald Queen Riverboat Casino! In its heyday it looked like this:

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Similar to the floating riverboat casino in Porky's Revenge :???

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I used to go there on occasion to make some quick cash...

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and get my groove on (before UAVs).

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Small world! Looking forward to meeting you on or near the water Charlie!
 
Chip, absolutely love them, ❤❤ thanks for showing. Now that would of been a brilliant hyerlapse. I just seem to love things on the water, I wanted to fly yesterday but it was to windy, same today:(:( again how good are those tug boats, the muscles ?? of the water way. Were they put through post or are they naked, straight from the mem card?

Thanks, got real lucky with some live action that day. These Tugs are real tough and beefy, very fun to watch work! Now, I will confess that I got out ahead of my skis talking about RAW. Photos are resized to post but otherwise untouched. I am not quite ready to jump into the ring and go fully RAW with the professionals. Bought Lightroom subscription but have not studied or tried yet......:rolleyes: kind of worried it could be painful... :rolleyes:

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A very interesting watch, changed my mind about the problem wearing glasses ;)

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Turns out there is a whole section on the moverios right here on the forum...lots of in depth discussion. Well worth checking out. I have yet to try FPV goggles or glasses but very curious now to see in action. ?
 
Turns out there is a whole section on the moverios right here on the forum...lots of in depth discussion. Well worth checking out. I have yet to try FPV goggles or glasses but very curious now to see in action. ?

I see that the forum had a topic on the Moverios but didn’t really look into it because of me wearing glasses?

Couple of Christmas’s ago I was bought a VR headset which I thought would be soooo cool but couldn’t use it without my glasses..... couldn’t get the headset over my glasses, all I could see was this,
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Thanks, got real lucky with some live action that day. These Tugs are real tough and beefy, very fun to watch work! Now, I will confess that I got out ahead of my skis talking about RAW. Photos are resized to post but otherwise untouched. I am not quite ready to jump into the ring and go fully RAW with the professionals. Bought Lightroom subscription but have not studied or tried yet......:rolleyes: kind of worried it could be painful... :rolleyes:

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Chip, what Lr did you subscribe toooooo, the desk top version or the iPad version?
 
Hello friends...
Unfortunately there is not much new to report from my side.
Although hardly any time was available, I tried to follow all your little and great stories, which gave me a lot of pleasure :)

@Porky ...
I especially liked this last church photo that you edited with LR. The picture looks a bit like your church is part of a large model landscape, which I think is really cool :)

You wrote that you wanted to fly, but it was too windy. Here, the weather is slowly as it is expected from spring, but at night we sometimes still have frost. Rain and strong winds had accompanied us for some time, and a dense cloud cover was always present. Now there is more sun and less clouds, but mostly too much wind for relaxed flying. A few days ago the weather looked very promising and I prepared all my gear for a short trip. I left the house in the early afternoon with eight full batteries, and made a two-hour trip, but unfortunately with no chance to lift the Mavic. I have learned from it, and now rely more on UAV forecast. Of course, UAV Forecast had warned me in advance of unfavorable flight conditions, but I hoped it would be better weather soon. For me, it almost seems like there are more reasons not to fly than to risk a few flights ...

@Chip ...
Great pictures you have made. Now you may have discovered the photographer in you. But surely you filmed the turning maneuver of the big cargo ship with the tugs, did not you? Oh, I really hope you make this Moverio test for us.

I still do not know if I will buy M2P or M2Z. And now I see these very interesting Epson glasses, which unfortunately only have HD resolution. As a wearer of glasses, I have some concern about the wearing comfort of these Moverio glasses, but at least they seem to be very light. There is a lot of homework for me to do before I make a choice :)

Incidentally, I have to buy a new filter set for my M1P. Unfortunately, my previous set has proved to be cheap garbage that can only be set up after the gimbal calibration. Glasses have fallen out of their frames, and the frames are very delicate. A filter frame is already broken, and an ND32 filter has uneven brightness. Well, the new filter set is not more expensive, and has an interesting holding mechanism. I am very curious to see if it meets my low expectations.

@Charlie ...
Your story in three parts was very interesting for me, although I have to admit to having some things (Muki-Muk) maybe not understood correctly. It is certainly very nice to meet someone who has the same hobby. Talk about the hobby and then fly together ... are there more beautiful events than that?

You also wrote that you are after updates, suddenly in a class B airspace. I do not know exactly when it happened to me, but after some update it was like that. Now I get in my close environment with each start of DJI GO a warning notice that I am in a warning zone. I can hide this warning, but it is pointed out that in this zone to unexpected problems with the Mavic can come. Alternatively, I can request an activation, but I wonder if it could be temporary or permanent?

Anyway, and now maybe it's time for you to call the Mavic 2 your new own :) Or maybe there is first of all this Moverio glass from Epson? This kind of glasses is probably the only allowed visual device for us hobby pilots in Germany. I have also seen some videos about this Moverio. Well, the DJI goggles could not convince me anyway, and when used in DE a second person to monitor the airspace is mandatory.

@old man mavic ...
Unfortunately, I have almost no idea about F1, because I can not say anything. Nevertheless, it is sometimes nice for me to watch some race.

I hope you could find a few opportunities to fly a few batteries again, and soon have some pictures for us from your beautiful location.

So, that was it for the time being from my side. I hope we will find more interesting topics here, and can keep this thread running for a very long time :)
 
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Your not alone I find myself short on time since I did my last dance with mavic and for which mp2 to buy (pro)
because I'm a picture guy.
About the mov bt-300 I also were readers and it's an no-no issue with the ones I tried.....
Just stay in Touch and I will try to do the same....
.Will get back there and while we can't we can injoy the pics and stories chip. Porky &OMM hopefully will supply.....cR
 
Nice write up mnis, as normal. We had some nice weather a while back but now it’s typical spring weather here at the mo, same as you. I charged everything up for a flight last Sunday but wasted my time, again weather let me down o_O

Love Charlie’s story’s and looking forward to seeing some of chips photos after post, you can do it chip Lr is easy to use, trust me.

Love seeing dads photos of Wales but would love to see some vids, come on dad...:)

I’m the same as Charlie, a photo man, my next little project is the wind farm just up the road from where I live. Gonna contact them 1st to see if I can fly in the farm which would be soooooo much better. I’ll let you guys know how I get onThumbswayup
 
Now how cool would this be doing a hyerlapse on the wind farm, given me an idea...
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I would say pretty darn cool! :)Here is a video which may give you some more ideas:

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This is how close the wind farms are to me, I’m the blue dot on the map. The first one is Turncole Farm, about a 10 min drive from me. The other one doesn’t show on the map but it’s up in Bradwell-on-Sea, about a 20 minute drive. C36CAD4A-4B45-4C49-A843-E63EB2F9689D.png

The Wind tubines I took a photo of, well the ones in the distance was from Turncole farm.
 

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