A look at some Sonoran desert vegetation.
I’m camped out in the desert south of Ajo, AZ for two nights. This video takes you on a tour of the Sonoran desert vegetation around my camper.
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A look at our camp from the air.
I took out my Mavic Pro a few days ago and shot some footage of our winter camp.
I actually shot this on two different days. The first day, I took it up to get a few shots of my friend Janet, who was fishing from her boat down the backwater channel we’re camped on. I then shot a video overflight ending at our camp.
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I shot the second half the next day. I wanted to circle the camp from the air, but I wanted it set up as we usually have it. The first day, my truck was parked inside the living area because we’d offload groceries and water jugs. In the second half of the video, my truck is parked where it belongs, on the other side of the boat ramp.
The light was definitely better the first day I shot. I should have just moved the damn truck and kept shooting. My bad.
Anyway, here’s the video; I posted it on the FlyingMAir YouTube channel. Read the video description to learn more about my music choice.
A video from the Flying M Air YouTube channel.
An aerial view of where I’m camped right now: off the grid in southwest Arizona and relying on solar panels for Power, a 2 year old MacBook Pro for video editing, and my Verizon “4G” (LOL) connection for Internet access.
I’m camped here for a while with my friend Janet and our dogs. Camp includes our art workspaces: she paints and I make jewelry. I’m living in the truck camper with the awning out and she’s living in the shorter travel trailer. We have inflatable boats in the water. I described life in camp in this blog post, if you’re interested: https://aneclecticmind.com/2020/12/19/snowbirding-2021-life-at-the-backwaters-camp/
The footage was shot with an original DJI Mavic Pro. This drone works great for me and I haven’t needed an upgrade. (Thank heaven; these damn things cost a fortune.) I piloted the first half and used the POI feature for the second half, which I also sped up by 150%.
The music is from YouTube’s free music for Creators, “Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental)” by Jingle Punks. I liked this piece because it’s traditional holiday fare for the end of the year. This version seems (to me) as if it hits a few bad notes along the way, which is perfect for the end of a really crappy year for so many of us.
I’m uploading this as I type on a connection that’s less than 1 Mbps and it’s taking forever. This also explains why I haven’t uploaded anything better for a while. My current computer setup is a MacBook Pro that can’t run DaVinci Resolve (my preferred video editing app) so I’m stuck with Screenflow, which has limited capabilities. I am able to create 1080 video, however, so that’s what I made. 50 MB for just over 2 minutes of video takes a very long time to upload at these dismal access speeds. (Total was about 30 minutes, actually, which wasn’t CRAZY bad. I just kept wondering if I’d lose the connection in the middle somewhere. I didn’t.)
I hope everyone has a great holiday. Wear a mask, stay healthy, get vaccinated as soon as you can. Be nice to others. Don’t hate. 2021 is going to be a GREAT year — if we make it that way!