Congratulations..you deserve the award.
Being from US, Oz looks simply prehistoric. Glad you left out the humans.
Being from US, Oz looks simply prehistoric. Glad you left out the humans.
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I think that is where drone is at its best Joe, getting a shot that isn’t possible with anything else. In the end you just keep learning from the shots you failed on.
I can see why you were awarded the prize! This is spectacular! The moon reveal, the rainbow reveal - wonderfully done. It even appears you captured Momma Emu not liking you being there around her young ones and started charging the drone.
Thanks a lot, and just to touch on your comment on "luck"
... I say this not to be defensive, but instructive, so if I may....As a Cinematographer, way before I picked up a drone, we learned to use luck as our last resort not first. Therefore we shoot "shot by shot" typically 10-20 seconds long at least planning and/or even rehearsing every shot we can, creating our own luck if you like! In terms of the rainbow this is how it went down on the day: 1. I knew that to shoot a rainbow in the afternoon I needed the sun to be relatively low and I needed to shoot it on a wall of rain with the drone facing east (without getting the drone wet!) So I watched the radar and saw a defined front coming (meaning it had wall of rain at its front, but much more importantly at its back as it passed to the East!) and left the house telling my wife I was "going to shoot a rainbow"...a bit overly optimistic eh? 
2. I also knew that a rainbow by itself is a dime a dozen so I needed a strong foreground, and that rocky red hill is just above our house. 3. I headed up there firing up both controller and aircraft in the car as the rain front went over and looked West to see if the sun would poke through one of the "slits" on the horizon. 4. It did, shining on the wall of rain that had just passed over creating the rainbow I wanted. 5. I launched, quickly noticing the curve in the hill matched the rainbow curve so I just had time to line that up and do 3 takes of it "rising" over the hill (but in fact of course it was the drone movement)Yes, I was lucky the hill curve was there but hopefully there was a lot of planning as well. That is just one example of the kind of thoughts that go into hundreds of shots. Of course not everything works to plan but I guess you just increase your chances of success as much as you can on the day.
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Yeah, I do try to leave humans out and things they've made. Never say never though!
Thanks Prop Wash, needless to say the drone survived! Actually, very unusually, in the emu world the Dad looks after the chicks.
Interesting about the males watching out for their young.
Yes, I guess it's so they can teach their young how to deal with drones
No...actually emus are one species you can't categorize in terms of reaction. One will let you happily peck along side him 3 feet away out in the desert, another will run like crazy, another will attack on sight. The corella cockatoos we have here are the only animals I would say have a species-wide reaction. They are fascinated by drones and if you come in slowly they will actually join you and escort you though the air. Here's an unedited interaction to show you what I mean Corellas in 4K
Mrprop365
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My uncle in Louisiana used to raise emus about 20-30 years ago. Somewhere I have a picture of him straddling one trying to get it back into the enclosure.
Ha! I think the only difference between raising them here and there is that you call them “e-moos” and we call them what they are…”e-mews”
Absolutely stunning video and congratulations on your well deserved award.
Bilby1
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Absolutely fantastic. Some wonderful views of our great country, shot beautifully. Loved it all. Did your drone suffer any damage from the emu charge?
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