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I was lucky to have the Snowy Creek approach to Rock Mt. all to myself on a beautiful Sunday yesterday. I brought my drone and A7r2, but didn't have time for much photography since I had to be home for dinner with company arriving from out of town. I barely made it to the ridge just below the...

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Drone view of Glacier Creek and the waterfalls you hike up next to. The crazy straight up climbers trail is visible to the right (it has a fixed rope for handholding in the steepest spot). As you can see we are starting to get a bit of color up in the mountains. DJI MP2 pano stitched in ACR

Another drone view of the mountains from above my house.

Drone-sunrise-clouds-2-1.-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Sep 19, 2019 at 11:14 AM Sunrise from above my house this morning.

I haven't had much luck shooting hyper lapses on my Mavic 2 Pro (DJI's term for time-lapse mode on their devices). I've been trying to capture moving clouds, which of course means there is some wind, which means the drone has to adjust itself and can't maintain a perfect position. I tried a...

Lk-Stevens-Rainbow096-pano-2 by Jim Dockery posted Sep 11, 2019 at 7:05 AM I was hoping for a nice sunset after enjoying the thunderheads over the mountains when my wife and I went for a walk yesterday. From the backyard a while later I noticed a bit of a rainbow, so sent the drone up to check...

Drone-Sunrise-1_Pano by Jim Dockery posted Sep 4, 2019 at 5:30 PM Another drone shot from above my house a couple weeks ago. Mt. Pilchuck in center.

I brought my drone on a little morning hike of the Lime Kiln trail yesterday. It's nice to be able to position your camera where you want it above a river. This is a 4 shot pano taken with a DJI M2P. I've been shooting all my stills as 5 shot bursts then stacking and blending them in post to...

Taken above my house with DJI M2P drone. 5 shots blended to deal with noise.

Drone view from above my house this morning. For the first time with my Mavic 2 Po I used the stack - smart object - median method to combine 5 shot bursts to deal with noise. After doing that I stitched the 9 resulting images to create this pano. Edit, I just noticed when looking at a larger...

Chasing glory rainbows. View full screen to see stars.

Flew the drone for a sunrise view this morning. DJI M2P

Drone view with Olympic mountains in the background.

I drove to a new location to fly my drone and catch the sunset over Lake Stevens last night. This pano includes the Olympics which are directly west, and Mt. Baker (dimly visible on the far right) to the north. Lk-Stevens-Sunset-5.26.19250-Pano by Jim Dockery posted May 27, 2019 at 2:40 PM

I hauled my DJI MP2 up Vesper Pk. in the Cascades yesterday. We thought it was going to be a mostly sunny day, but the mountains got socked in, we even got sprinkled on at the summit. I was disappointed with the light, but managed to get a few good shots. These are frame grabs from 4k video...

The morning fog complemented the sunrise above my house (drone view) this morning. Home-drone-sunrise-5.16.19-01-Pano by Jim Dockery posted May 16, 2019 at 8:47 AM

I took my DJI M2P drone along for another run on Mt. Pilchuck yesterday. This time I was solo and was quite happy with the active track performance. These are screen grabs from the 4K video which I shot without a ND filter so that I could get sharp stills. I'm the red dot lower left of...

DJI M2P, screen grab from 4K video, converted in Silver FX Pro.

Skiing Pilchuck Active track didn't do a very good job of following me, but I got a few good shots of my buddy Eric.