2 Pro Maine Road Trip, Lighthouses- and Acadia National Park-May 6-13,2021

[Dale D]

Dale, just to let you know that I very much enjoyed your entire video. Living as I do in a high desert that is now in a severe drought it is so refreshing to see Maine so different, so beautiful and so expertly shown through your ability and work.

Thanks so much for your kind words. It was lots of work for that 8 minutes!

Maine is truly a gem. Although I have traveled the world, I've been trying to get there for many years, so in October, tired of the pandemic, I pledged my wife that we would be able to travel by May,2021 and so I made reservations, flights, etc. It was so worth it. We have Miami friends here who own places up there and go every summer. It is truly a beautiful place. I tried to capture its essence in a short video, and of course, that is not possible,but I think I captured a bit of it. We are told Maine was not recommended in early May and by the end of the month, it would be tremendously crowded. So I defied the odds and went in early May and found no crowds, restaurants freely available, and not a second's wait a there Acadia Park ranger station.

I am now considering repeating the area further north to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shore. Lots more lighthouses up there! Need Canada to open its border to tourists and of course, our passports.

 

[sarimento1]

Great stuff!
Any problem with flying over national park lands?

 

[Dale D]

Great stuff!
Any problem with flying over national park lands?

Never did fly over national park land- not for a second. I specifically said in the intro that I did not fly in Acadia. There were plenty of land opportunities with regular DSLR and timelapse and regular video. The seashore and surf shots were all on non-park lands.

 

[wsteele]

Dale,

I hardly ever watch 8 minute videos but I watched yours end to end. I think the difference is that some people's videos are 7 or 8 minutes of the same mountain peak from 10 different angles and I can only get through two or three. You gave a great travelogue of the whole Maine coastline. Your video also brought back memories as we walked the ocean walkway to Perkins Cove, the beach in Kennybunk Port and climbed "Ropes and Rungs" on Cadillac Mountain.

My daughter and their family vacation every year at Kennybunk Port and my 15 year old grandson always flies his drone from the marshes to the inlet. I'll send him this link to get some ideas about how it's done by a master.

Thanks again for all of your posts and this one in particular.

Bill

 

[Dale D]

Dale,

I hardly ever watch 8 minute videos but I watched yours end to end. I think the difference is that some people's videos are 7 or 8 minutes of the same mountain peak from 10 different angles and I can only get through two or three. You gave a great travelogue of the whole Maine coastline. Your video also brought back memories as we walked the ocean walkway to Perkins Cove, the beach in Kennybunk Port and climbed "Ropes and Rungs" on Cadillac Mountain.

My daughter and their family vacation every year at Kennybunk Port and my 15 year old grandson always flies his drone from the marshes to the inlet. I'll send him this link to get some ideas about how it's done by a master.

Thanks again for all of your posts and this one in particular.

Bill

Many thanks, and much appreciated. It was, indeed, a labor of love.

I know I could have made a shorter version but I never get around to that! It is always hard to encapsulate a one week trip filled with rich content to a 3 minute film.

If you liked that, check out my trips to Iceland, Rwanda-Democratic Republic of the Congo (gorillas trip) , and my most recent, Zambia/ Madagascar at my web site

Dale Davis,M.D.

Advanced amateur photographer, world traveler, and avid enthusiast of time lapse photography.Also, retired M.D. ophthalmologist.

vimeo.com

 

[Jonny521]

outstanding video and beautiful editing. I'm going up to ME in a couple weeks and was bringing the drone along. Did anyone give you a hard time about flying or anything like that?. Also did you deploy in the parking lot area or beach area?.

 

[DavidSMiami]

Hey Dale, thank you for the great video. I landed on this page by searching “places to fly a drone near Acadia“.

It looks like you launched from sand beach and other places near the water? Is that allowed? If not, can you let me know where you launched from?

I noticed you live in Miami. So am I!

Heading to Acadia with my wife and 3 kids in 12 days . I’m really looking forward to the aerial photography opportunities

 

[Dale D]

Hey Dale, thank you for the great video. I landed on this page by searching “places to fly a drone near Acadia“.

It looks like you launched from sand beach and other places near the water? Is that allowed? If not, can you let me know where you launched from?

I noticed you live in Miami. So am I!

Heading to Acadia with my wife and 3 kids in 12 days . I’m really looking forward to the aerial photography opportunities

Hi David S:

I'm in Coral Gables near Old Cutler road. [email protected]

I'm sorta of really jet lagged having just reeled off 4 days of intercontinental travel from KYRGYSTAN. A very rough trip to one of the most beautiful countries on earth with a 6 man photo workshop.

Thanks for the good words on Acadia video. You will note carefully that I avoided, at all cost, flying INSIDE the park but did fly from the edges of the park out to sea shore views of lighthouses. I crawled down big rocky things to launch seawards and shoot towards the land and the light houses. All of the filming in the park were mostly timelapses, or slow water shots with 10x ND filters on a tripod. At most lighthouses you can do a fast run, up and down, quickly before anyone could report me I was out of there. I tried to do some circles of the lighthouses. I am not sure it is allowed but I do tend to push the envelope where it is iffy. Happy to discuss if you want my number.

Dale Davis

 

[DavidSMiami]

Hey Dale, thank you so much for the fast reply! Yes, I’d love to continue the dialogue over the phone. Thank you for providing me your email address, will reach out.

Congrats on your trip to Kyrgyzstan. That sounds like an incredible adventure with amazing opportunities for photography. If you have a website, please share the link.

David

 

[Dale D]

Hey Dale, thank you so much for the fast reply! Yes, I’d love to continue the dialogue over the phone. Thank you for providing me your email address, will reach out.

Congrats on your trip to Kyrgyzstan. That sounds like an incredible adventure with amazing opportunities for photography. If you have a website, please share the link.

David

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