Berlin, Germany —I can only wish I were writing this in beautiful City of Berlin .  The German people have not diminished or even denounced this great holiday as too many American’s have.  Instead I’m in Los Angeles at the moment.   As many of you know I’ve become thrilled and addicted to using a camera drone to acquire amazing video.   I even earned an IMDB screen credit as aerial photographer for the Pablo Lewin short film production, The Roommate . The word “drone” became a dirty term because of those infamous military weapon-laden killing machines.   The multi-rotor camera drone users like me have now clamed that term and redefined it as a tool for art and many exciting humanitarian purposes. I hope to see the FAA end their ban on commercial use of drones to grow our stagnant economy and create new jobs. We saw a racial divide like we’ve not had in this nation since the 1950’s.   I blame almost all of it all on high profile race baiting ...

Phoenix, AZ —Okay, I have to confess that my two camera drones have brought out the child in me!   I put one under my own tree last Christmas.   I’m middle-aged but have become hopelessly hooked on these incredible things.  I now own a  DJI Phantom 2 and a Blade 350QX quad-copters that use those great GoPro cameras.  For some unknown reason these multi-rotor camera drones have not caught the affection of women like they have men.   I don’t understand this since women are generally more creative then men.   I hope this changes because they have no clue what they’re missing. The popularity of the multi-rotor drones is exploding especially with photographers.   They allow limitless perspectives of the subject mater sought to make or capture breathtaking images.   They have starter drones on the substantially less-expensive end such as the Blade 200-QX that can help your child master the very important skills in controlling, operating...