Life on the boat starts early when the sun rises. Thanks to a cup of strong Bajawa coffee, which enough to wake me up and admire the beauty these islands offer.
With my trusted Fuji XE2 gears and couple of prime lenses, there are no moments (nor selfies) uncaptured…
Playing drone at roof top actually reminds me of my childhood, when we liked to climb to the roof and saw the surrounding from the top of the house.
But now it’s with a plus, I can borrow my drone’s eyes to look from viewpoint which only birds can see. Alhamdulillah for the technology.
Oh, another plus is to take selfie from unusual point of view 😬
Suddenly this morning I had the urge to ride my vespa, and looking for wide place to practice my drone flying skills. Then I remember Richard, my friend, who just repainted his Vespa, and I believe he was falling in love again with his scooter.
So I texted him to see if he thought if it was a good idea.
Well, great minds think alike, within minutes Richard already arrived at my house. Unfortunately, my Vespa’s battery was dead, so I couldn’t start it on (jarang dipake siih). But it’s ok, at least we took pictures together with our scooters:
Anyway, I and Rafif continue to learn how to fly Pelican, our drone. Taking off from our roof top, it was much more delicate take off and landing procedures than in swimming pool area, given relatively narrow area (that yellow pad is the drone landing pad). But thankfully, we managed to complete the task safely.
Then I recorded the movie of my drone flying around complex. Geez, just realized how difficult it was to create a smooth, cinematic aerial video. As you can see in the video, the movement was very jaggy. I’m still not familiar with Mavic controller, let alone to focus on how to shot pro-like video. Many things to learn and practice, I guess 😉
You can see the video on this YouTube link
As my driver has gone home to his village, I have to drive to office by myself. Well, it’s be behind the wheel at this times of the year anyway, Jakarta’s traffic is very friendly, so I can do some selfies while listening to rock music 🤘🏻
Taking off from our complex’s swimming pool area, we managed to make ‘Pelican’ (that’s the call sign of our Mavic anyway, taking name from Halo’s famous drop ship) hover, and fly around the complex. Here are the first pictures and videos from Pelican… and hopefully ones from many to come!
After sometime curb my desire to own a drone, finally my gadget geek beat my (financial) sanity. I bought myself a drone, the brilliant DJI Mavic which I considered for quite sometime. Especially after saw it in person, when my brother Oyi, who has established himself as professional drone photographer, showed me his very own Mavic (racuuuun!) 😅😅
So I’ll charge the remote and batteries, and see what I can do with this thing, especially for our upcoming family holiday. Yeay!
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Some of the rooms are new and refreshed. Aya and Rafif’s room have their new set of furnitures (yes, that IKEA confusing trip did give us something). And more excitingly, there are new library and music rooms for Elok and me, respectively.
Next will be the interior design works for the new living rooms which will take a bit sometime (and extra money too!).
To be continued…..
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