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It is amazing the mood changer IR/BNW can have on an image.

I just finished processing this one and am pretty excited so I'm posting it very large (gallery image that you can zoom in on). It's my kind of selfie - when I look very close in front of the truck camper I can see myself flying the drone. Here is the camper detail at full size:

One of the things I wanted to do with my drone at Skyline was to fly down and out to get a view looking back up at the viewpoint. Look for my truck camper near the rim in the center and people at the point. 15 frame pano, each a median blended stack of 5 RAW shots, a total of 75 shots = 90 MP...

Thanks to Ben I've been dreaming of flying my drone at Skyline Overlook for a couple years now. It was exciting to finally do it, with some nice clouds to boot!

Drone pano.

I launched my drone just outside the west entrance to the park for this view. Multi-frame pano incorporating median stacked bursts of 5 for each.

I really lucked out to arrive at The Valley of the Gods just in time to get my drone up to shoot sunset.

I really lucked out with the clouds at Skyline a few weeks ago.

Down in Blue Valley which is east of Factory Butte in Utah, I had been in this cool valley to fly the drone and to photograph the sunset. As fast at the sunset approached so did this huge storm to which I had gotten alerts on flash flooding dangers on my phone. It ended up being too windy to fly...

My first visit to this fantastic area in SE Utah. The photography highlight of my trip.

I took my drone up for a look around just outside Hanksville. Factory Butte behind.

My wife and I spent the night out at Skyline in our camper last week. Nice clouds cooperated for photos but no rain. Factory Butte on the drive in. Fellow photographer shooting the Butte. Sunset View to the Henry Mountains.

Had to stop a few times on the drive south from SLC to Goblin Valley. I told Debbie that God insisted I stop for this shot. Great thunderheads near Green River. Almost there.

Yesterday Alan posted a cool photo of rock formations similar to what would be found in Bisti Badlands but he found them on the Oregon coastline. This one is from the Bentonite Hills not far from Factory Butte in Utah. It's an aerial view from the DJI Mini 2. I was splitting time between...

An aerial view of a really cool area in Goblin Valley. Three Sisters sets off the road just before you get into the actual valley of the Goblins. This video was taken with the DJI Mini 2. All comments are welcome, Jim

This was at Factory Butte a little over about 10 days ago. Amy and I had spent the night photographing the Milky Way over Factory Butte. As sunset approached Amy went over to Skyline Overlook to shoot some IR images for a spot there, and I chose to stay at Factory Butte because I wanted to fly...

This house is just west of Hanksville, Utah. @Amy Nelson wanted to shoot it on our way out to Blue Valley, and I thought it was a great idea! That's where I got the mudcrack photo I posted earlier. In this one, it was the next day after Amy had gone home, and I stopped by there and flew my...

@Amy Nelson has a favorite old ruin of a house that is west of Hanksville that she likes to visit and photograph. So on our way out to Blue Valley and the Bentonite Hills we stopped in there to explore and photograph. It was super cool because there was cracked mud every where! I spent a lot of...

This is from last week, there was a moon up that set during the night and a few clouds rolled in. It all made for an exciting night with the goblins. This was captured on the Nikon D810 Sigma 14mm f1.8. Once the moon set I started capturing Deep Space Images with my D850. It was a busy but very...

If you have been to Monument Valley, chances are you have been to Mexican Hat Rock or driven by it. It's a crazy cool rock with a huge capstone barely balanced on top. I took the opportunity to fly my new DJI Mini 2 drone there. This video was taken this last week and is a combination of...