Los Angeles, CA —Yesterday I got a gentle safety reminder as I began to pick up my Phantom 2 .   The props suddenly began spinning on their own.   I thought I turned of the battery and then the radio controller.   I’m somewhat hearing impaired and did not hear those telltale sounds that the battery power was not actually shut off.   As I reached for the drone the plastic propellers really spanked my fingers.   I felt pain but suffered no visible injury beyond a little redness that quickly disappeared.   Had I been using carbon fiber props I would have definitely needed stiches and a trip to the ER.   I was lucky my negligence did not cause what may have been termed a minor injury.   Through negligence, I nearly suffered the only kind of injury that the small multi-rotor drones ever inflict.   Thankfully in my case, my precious fingers and the props were none the worse for wear.   To date, the smaller under 55 lbs. multi-rotors h...

Los Angeles, CA —If my blog seems to have so much content related to camera drones it’s because I hopelessly hooked! I find myself adding sites to my bucket list every day.   Most of them are in far away places.   Here are two of my latest shoots.   Please enjoy!

Los Angeles, CA —The latest technology tool for newsgathering is taking a propaganda beating from the media.   As incredible as it seems the media is promoting ignorance about camera drones rather than enlightening their audience!   The little drones are indeed amazing.   They can take sophisticated yet tiny cameras to incredible heights to get inexpensive video and still images in near absolute safety!    They are definitely a novelty and local police have zero training about these devices.  They have not been around long  enough for police and procedures to be developed.  The obvious best policy is to simply leave the drone operators alone.  Cops seem to want to make arrests for drone use because they know right now they will get substantial news coverage.   However t hose highly publicized recent arrests of drone pilots have turned out to be absolutely bogus. Two police helicopter pilots in New York spotted a lit...

I was up in the SF Bay Area attending the IRE, Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference last week.   I also had a teriffic lunch in Hollywood yesterday. I could not resist sending my quadcopter up for some stunning video.   Take a look and enjoy!