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Philadelphia Medical Transport Jet Crash Site
Here s a bit of eerie drone footage of the area in Philadelphia where the unfortunate Jet Rescue Air Ambulance Learjet 55 (registration XA-UCI) slammed into the ground less than a minute after take off on January 31, 2025. Sadly, all 6 passengers and crew lost there lives immediately on impact. At least one person on...
Drone Reel 2025
Here s a compilation of some of my recent aerial cinematography work around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Need some drone work done? Reach out.
Cinematic scenery around SF
I’m really digging the compression of the 70mm and 165mm equivalent lenses on the new DJI Mavic 3 Pro. It’s really getting into Inspire cinematic territory. Parallaxes are fun!
New Cranes Come to Port of Oakland
The beginning of the year brought 3 new massive container cranes to the Port of Oakland, able accommodate the largest container ships this planet has to offer. Maybe even the Ever Was, if it s ever released from the Suez Canal.
Droning the Pacific Pinball Museum Annex
This was a fun day! So many pinball machines and never enough quarters.
Let’s Play: D&D in US Prisons
I was asked by documentary filmmaker and producer Elisabeth de Kleer if I would be willing to help create a Kickstarter video for her upcoming documentary film on inmates who play Dungeon and Dragons in the American prison system. Being a bit of a D D nerd myself, this was an easy call. The Let s Play:...
They Promised Us Jetpacks
Here s your real life Tony Stark flying his jet suit around Hiller yesterday. Richard Browning of Gravity Industries, British inventor of the Daedalus Flight Pack, is as close to Iron Man as anyone has gotten. Just don t ask how he scratches his nose.
The 3rd Annual FRiFF
The Flying Robot international Film Festival, the drone film festival I started 3 years ago, returns to the historic Roxie Theater in San Francisco on November 16th. This event is always a culmination of a ton of work and passion, and that includes all the submitting filmmakers. We re looking at a sold out show and...
Aerial Imagery Presentation at Dorkbot
I was invited to give a presentation on advanced aerial imagery techniques using drones at dorkbotSF on September 20, 2017. Here s the recored presentation, thanks to dorkbot videographer James Young. Eddie Codel, Advanced Aerial Imagery Techniques with Drones, Dorkbot-SF, 2017-09-20.