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Travels with My Mavic - Episode 6 - Brighton Pier

With the Lockdown partially over in the UK, I took the opportunity to take my camera and Mavic down to Brighton to cover some post Lockdown activity.

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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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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 2 - St Martha's Hill - Guildford, UK

A very breezy day had me fighting the controls after my Mavic Pro found it too windy to use some of the intelligent flight modes that I wanted to try out. Once again I was amazed at the stability of the drone at winds gusting up to 23 MPH. St Martha's Church stands on the Pilgrims way which is also the North Downs way in Guildford and it stretches as Far East as Canterbury.

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The Mavic 2 Pro YouTube Channel Intro Video

Since I purchased my Mavic 2 Pro and I have been publishing some drone footage on YouTube, I felt it was important to put together a small introduction video which gave the viewer an idea of what it was I was using to create the footage they were watching.

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Virgina Water - Long Exposure Photography

Very often its knowing what you can do with the equipment you have that dictates how you take a photograph and what recipes you use for retouching. In some ways you pre-visualise what you expect to achieve before you click the shutter. Ansel Adams was a fantastic exponent of pre-visualisation, but often its about how you 'feel' on the day and what you want from the final effect that

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Venice - Canals, Cathedrals and Cobblestones

Over the years Venice has inspired artists, photographers, artisans and Poets, each trying to capture their interpretation of the beauty of the narrow and meandering streets and canals.

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City of Buenos Aires - Argentina - Black and White Study

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre".

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