Aerial Shots

[Every Miles A Memory]

Cindy and I went up flying around Cedar Key where we've just moved to since a local pilot gives tours for $20 per person!!:victory:

Amazing how much cooler the islands look from the air

I liked the reflection in the wing as we circled back towards the little runway

This is Atsena Otie Key where the town of Cedar Key once was till it was taken out to sea by a Hurricane in the 1800's. Now the only thing that remains is the dock, a cemetary and some ruins

Looking North all the way to Gainesville where that fire is located at the top of the image

This is our place from the air. Notice our little camper all the way on the Left with the 3 solar panels on the roof. For a size comparrison, that's a 25' camper and the one to the right of ours is a 38'

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[Stan the Man]

Looks like you need a bigger camper :ylsmoke: What'd you move to Florida for and is it temporary? I remember reading something about you managing a tiki bar. Either way, thats cool as hell and I want to visit.

 

[KSJeep]

Nice Shots Pat, views from above are always cool.

 

[halpeters]

Beautiful pictures!!!

I'm also a pilot, and fly out to Cedar Key several times a year for lunch. Nice little airport - notice the water on each end of the runway and it is much shorter than most airports.

Hope you enjoy Cedar Key, it is a quiet little town / island, that time seems to have forgot.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Nice Shots Pat, views from above are always cool.

Other than shooting out the window of a commercial plane on vacations, this was my first time with Aerial Photography where I could point out where I want the pilot to go.

Needless to say I'm hooked...Addicted is more like it.

The views from above are just amazing. I could see going far into debt by renting the plane for hours at a time to fly up and down the coast in various weather situations to get different shots

notice the water on each end of the runway and it is much shorter than most airports.

The pilot was telling us they pull out a few planes each month from the waters edge due to pilots not knowing the shortness of the runway:Wow1:

I guess its a challenge for the pilots to land with water on each side and you need to know how to read the wind off the water. (I only know this from listening to him tell Cindy who was sitting in the passenger seat with him while I was snapping away)

I guess this little airstrip is popular for pilots all over Florida for its short size and surrounding beautiful coastline.

Halpeters, next time you're flying up to this area, give me a shout. Cindy and I can meet you at the runway and drive you into town so we can all go out to lunch

 

[Michael Slade]

Pat, you are on a slippery and expensive slope! Enjoy the ride!

Nice images. Directing a pilot can be an amazing experience. Next time you go up, pick the sweet light right before or after sunrise or sunset. You think your photos are amazing now (which they are), they'll be even more amazing-er with that wonderful light.

Now get back in the air and show us more cool-ness. That is an area of the country I know absolutely nothing about.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Pat, you are on a slippery and expensive slope! Enjoy the ride!

Michael, I'm already figuring that out.

I've spoken to the pilot about going back up right at sunset to get those last few minutes of rays, and those golden minutes right after and cant wait.

I just had to send my Canon 5D in for repair, so I'm thinking I'm gonna wait till it comes back so I can have two bodies on my lap with a wideangle on one, and a medium zoom on the other.

This first flight I was only using a Canon 30D body and was frantically swapping out lenses between my 28-300 and a superwide 17mm

And I made a rookie mistake and forgot my polarizer...duh!! So next time I'll be more prepaired and hopefully come back with some knock out images

 

[photoman]

Nice and what a fantastic price! :drool:

I have been up in a helicopter to shoot an event and that was pretty sweet- until the pilot said, "Keep the lens inside the chopper or the camera will get sucked up by the blades". :Wow1:

 

[Michael Slade]

Nice and what a fantastic price! :drool:

I have been up in a helicopter to shoot an event and that was pretty sweet- until the pilot said, "Keep the lens inside the chopper or the camera will get sucked up by the blades". :Wow1:

He was lying to you.

 

[photoman]

He was lying to you.

Probably- but considering how much of the buffetting I could feel I believed him. Small choppers.

 

[HMR]

Those are GREAT shots!

I'm a professional pilot and take pictures out the window often. It's always hard to capture the true beauty of the scene (near impossible w/my meager photo skills) from inside the fuselage. I used to fly photographers in little planes at a previous job and know that even for the pros with top of the line gear, aerial shots present a unique challenge. Nice work, you've got skillz!

 

[nwoods]

This is our place from the air.

??? where's the pool and that cool fountain/water fall thing that you posted a shot of previously?

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Those are GREAT shots! Nice work, you've got skillz!

Thanks man!! I just think the first time was a lucky one. We'll have to see if after the second or third time, I can still produce nice shots...LOL

??? where's the pool and that cool fountain/water fall thing that you posted a shot of previously?

That's the wife's sisters place. She's very rich, we're very poor. We're working at this place, the sister lives in an 11,000 square foot house with that big, heated pool and waterfall and she has yet to even swim in it?????

I swam in it EVERY single day we stayed with them.

If this year is a good year, we're already talking about taking out a loan to put in a pool behind the little motel.

We figured with a motel, tiki bar, rv slots and adding a pool, it would make it a true resort. Hopefully this year will show us what the future will hold.

If its the dumps, then we move on and go back to a nomadic life in the Glamper Vehicle, if it's good, we invest in things to make it better which in turn will help us go out and explore more:sombrero:

 

[DrMoab]

I have been up in a helicopter to shoot an event and that was pretty sweet- until the pilot said, "Keep the lens inside the chopper or the camera will get sucked up by the blades". :Wow1:

Thats kind of funny considering that all the force from the rotor blades push down in order to lift the chopper up

Great shots Pat, I still think we might make a pilgrimage to see you sometime this year.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Great shots Pat, I still think we might make a pilgrimage to see you sometime this year.

I've been trying to read around on the Intraweb to find if there is any good Wheeling in the Ocala area so I can try to show you guys something half as fun as what you showed Cindy and I in Utah