We hear about drones but I never thought a whole lot about them til some guy used his drone and made the coolest video of Lake Brownwood flowing over the spillway and the water rushing downstream during our recent flood. That guy is probably a professional and knows more than we’ll ever know about filming with a drone and editing a video but it got me thinking . . I told Vince . . we need a drone!
While out shopping the other day, Sam’s Club had one. We both walked by it, stopped and at the same time, said “A drone!”
Drone
I doubt we play with it much til it gets cooler. We have a few 100+ degree weekends coming up and I don’t see us being outside much for the foreseeable future but this is going to be a fun toy once we get to play with it.
With a million and one things to be done around here, just what we needed was a new toy but you know what they say about all work and no play . .
Helene says
My brother has one and it’s amazing how fun it is to see what even the local neighborhood looks like from up above. It’s a really fun toy!
Sherrill says
I don’t think I’d want one flying over my backyard (just in case I was nude sunbathing or something 🙂 But really, privacy becomes a real issue with those things.
Sherrill says
My nephew, who’s a Fort Worth police officer and is in the surveillance unit, has one that he had at one of our family get-togethers. It was super cool and AMAZING how high it could go (til you couldn’t see it anymore!!). They can be good and bad. We were at Yellowstone a couple of years ago and just after we returned, an idiot crashed his into the Grand Prismatic Spring. Those features at Yellowstone are irreplaceable and hopefully it doesn’t do any lasting damage in there. There are just some people who should not own a drone (not saying you two! 🙂
Rebecca in SoCal says
Drones have become an issue with fire-fighting; in fact, a drone is blamed for the cars catching fire in Cajon Pass last week. (The planes risk damage from the drones, and sometimes have to dump their retardant or water farther away from the flames.)
However, responsibly used, they can make fantastic videos!