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I thought the drone was going to flip 😳 This was probably the most gnarly drone flight I’ve ever done, in extreme wind and extreme cold. Still can’t believe the shots came out this smooth! After successfully driving onto Iceland’s largest glacier for the first time, I had a dream to get some aerial shots to remember this moment. After managing to take off from the ground, I took this clip of the drone getting absolutely smashed by the wind. Was not confident any shots would be usable, but it definitely paid off. Landing was a hectic challenge, I usually catch the mavic but in this case that was not going to happen without loss of fingers haha. In the end I managed to get it on the ground in between wind gusts. The drone was completely frozen over 🥶 Good times in the mountains! #iceland
24 days ago
My Mavic was doing the same dance when I was in Iceland last summer. I think they just get excited for banger footie
24 days ago
Fighting for its life and it won with those shots 😍
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😍
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Mavic 3pro?
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🙌🙌🙌
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Pushing your gear to the max 💯
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Maybe Mavic 4 will be even smoother 😏
24 days ago
crazy and very nice
24 days ago
Amazing drone and adventure 🙌❤️❤️❤️
24 days ago
That last shot is pure gorgeousness
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That’s crazy 😂
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I can’t even get over how smooth that footage is with the dance the done was doing 😮😮 I wondered if you’d just shot stills! This is wild!
24 days ago
Just wow 😮 Magnificent experience for you and amazing video🤩
24 days ago
Fair play, brave of you and amazing footage 🙌
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Ansel Adams Photographer, Artist & Activist
*Happy Birthday to Ansel’s ‘Monolith’!* 🏞️ “Born” on this day, April 10, 1927. Andrea Stillman’s biography “Looking at Ansel Adams” includes a wonderful chapter all about this storied photograph: “In 1992 I was in Ansel’s workroom selecting images for a prospective book of his photographs when Virginia appeared and announced that she had found a stash of home movies from the late 1920s and 1930S. With anticipation we rented a movie projector to screen them. Miraculously, one reel included footage of the trek to the Diving Board. It showed Ansel in his favorite plus fours, lugging his forty-pound pack, with a rakish fedora hat and the Keds high-top basketball shoes he favored for hiking. “The climbers struggled up…in deep snow, and when they reached the Diving Board they pulled each other up with a ludicrously thin rope. Virginia fearlessly inched out onto the sharply angled granite spur, and when she reached the tip she stood up and blithely waved. It seems appropriate that Ansel presented the very first print of ‘Monolith’ to Virginia. “Ansel was twenty-five years old when he made ‘Monolith.’ At age eighty he was able to recall the experience of making the negative, every detail as clear as it more than a half century had not elapsed. He photographed Half Dome hundreds of times, and there are many different interpretations that include moons, clouds, snow, flowers, leaves, trees, even deer and people. In 1978, during one of his last annual Yosemite workshops, he and his photographic assistant, John Sexton, contemplated Half Dome together and talked about the taking of ‘Monolith’ in 1927. According to John, Ansel laughingly confided, ‘Maybe I should just have stopped then.’” Text, film footage and Ansel Adams images are copyright ©️The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All rights reserved. John Sexton’s photograph courtesy of @johnsextonphoto. All rights reserved.