I beat the Wright Brother’s first flight by 6 seconds in duration and was able to film the landscape below. Gooseberry Mesa near Zion National Park never looked better.
The camera on the drone takes amazing photos at 48mp and 4K video. The DJI Mini 3 Pro was highly recommended and is fairly easy to use. It’s also very quiet and I plan to use it mostly in remote areas.
Watch at HiDef at full screen. Many more videos and images to come including the surreal!
A lot of video footage I’ve gathered is when I mount my iPhone to the front windshield of my vehicle. It’s not only safe but produces great results. It’s best to make sure your mount is where you want it before you drive off. Especially when road conditions were scary at best. See clip below. Click on photo below to order through Amazon.
Clip below shows why you want this device. I used to shoot video with my phone handheld! You definiely want your hands on the wheel when driving this road in Colorado.
I have been upping my skills on video editing with Adobe’s Premier Pro and this is the first production. Much more to come, this software has lots of bells and whistles.
Watch video in Hidef at Full Screen. Music by Automatic.
My two-months long trip has ended and it was great seeing family and friends and the places I grew up in on the East Coast. Plus, I visited 4 more states I hadn’t been to before. I have two left, Alaska and Florida.
And ………….
And I also:
Visited 12 National Park locations.
Visited a good friend at the home office of The National Park Service, just a few blocks from The White House.
Travelled some 8,461 miles. Much more than I anticipated. I had to get my vehicle its scheduled maintenance when in Pennsylvania.
I travelled through 23 states plus D.C., some more than once. This included 4 states in about 4 hours time. See if you can guess them.
I travelled on two separate subway systems plus a ferry.
I took 2060 photos with my iPhone.
I snapped 2,346 photos with my Canon DSLR
I directed 86 videos of various lengths
I gained 10 pounds but it was worth it! I ate lobster, Mexican, Thai, Italian, NYC grub, New England Clam Chowder and a glorious Thanksgiving Day dinner at my sisters in Ohio.
Who knows where my next adventures will take me but it’s time to hit the gym and lose that 10 pounds!
Here’s a few more memorable photos that I didn’t include in my blog posts.
Can’t find canolis like this one out west.
Orangutanging around at National Zoo, DC
Bridge in Maine
This skeleton had it made in Connecticut.
Italian restaurant in DC, like a scene out of “The Godfather”
Dessert
My hosts in DC including Abe.
Pigeons not allowed on DC Metro subway
Embedded in the floor at the visitor center is a satellite image of St Croix National Scenic Riverway which divides Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The town of Duck,North Carolina is home to Duck Donuts. They make these to order. Took about 10 minutes.
Probably why I only spent 2 hours in Vermont.
This Yellow Brick Road was in Wisconsin, not Kansas.
You can get just about anything at this Colorado store.
An iconic covered bridge in PA
This road in Pennsylvania is straight, didn’t need to steer.
Nice of this combine in South Dakota to give me some room. It was harvest time so they really had the right of way.
Back to the snow-covered Rockies
A ubiquitous Wall Drug sign along I-90 in South Dakota.
Cheap gas in Kansas City.
Nothing like a home-cooked meal for Thanksgiving.
On my trip to the East Coast, I had never seen Halloween decorations quite like the following. Booooo……..💀
I wouldn’t go to this house to Trick or Treat.
Is that a Gargoyle skeleton upside down on the window?
Could be a real cemetery.
Where do you buy this stuff?
Might be a lost Bigfoot
A Martini and a Cigar. Maybe he got it from the now missing mailman.
There’s a message in this photo, not sure what it is.
Caught this is remote Nebraska.
Don Quixote battles windmills because he believes that they are menacing giants. He feels that after defeating them, he will be able to call himself a true knight.
Don’t think he can take on these modern day wind turbines. Too high tech. You can only fight these with lasers. These wind turbines are located in the Tehachapi Mountains of California.
Slideshow showing my favorite images from 2018. Watch in HiDef at Full Screen. Music is April’s Song by Real Estate, my favorite new song of 2018. These images are available for purchase as prints or downloadable file at Dawn2Dawn Photography
These Japanese Chin dogs were with people visiting Zion National Park. Not sure who was driving? There was a total of four, one more in the back seat.
You have your choice of hazards along this road to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
