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Travels with my Mavic - Episode 4 - Colts Hill to Odiham - No Fly Zone!!

NO FLY ZONE!!! Frustrating!! After a long time without flying I drove to one of my favourite spots on the Basingstoke Canal. I had seen many people that have flown their drone around Odiham Castle and I thought if I started at Colt Hill and worked my way down to the Castle I would have a good idea as to whether there was much military air traffic out of RAF Odiham to contend with

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Photographic Bronze Order of Merit - started as a reject!

I don’t often get recognition for my pictures. I keep trying. I keep trying Instagram, Facebook and other Social media Sites. In fact this image above is an image that I shot a couple of weeks ago and very nearly didn’t retouch or edit. I knew I had taken a couple of pictures and maybe it was because I forgot the sunshade for my iPad and couldn’t see it properly or maybe I just didn’t think much of it, I don’t know. It felt like one of those images that just wouldn’t work. So it has stayed in the “stills” folder in the video project which can be found here.

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Travels with my Mavic - Episode 3 - East Preston Beach, West Sussex, UK

Finally a day in January when I could fly my Drone! The weather was calm and sunny. I went down primarily to see a friend of mine Roy who taught me as much about photography as I wanted to know and we have become the best of friends for the last 30 odd years!

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Travels with my Mavic - Episode 1 - St Catherine's Chapel - Guildford, UK

Since I have had my Drone, the weather has been, well terrible to say the least. I have rarely been aware of the weather, I take for granted when its warm and complain when its cold. But once you start encompassing the fact that you have to throw one of these Drones into the air, it encourages you to be more aware of the wind speed, the precipitation and the temperature(even the temperature affects the batteries)

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