Insights & Stories
Tips, stories, and insights from the skies — covering aerial photography, drone technology, and lost pet search operations.

Imagine this, you order something online, maybe medicine, maybe a last-minute gift, and instead of waiting days, it arrives in mere minutes, gently lowered to your doorstep from the sky by a drone. It sounds sort of Star Trekkie-ish , but it’s a lot closer than you think.

Summer’s almost here, and we’re almost to July 4th! That means parties, celebrations, and fireworks. But for our furry friends, fireworks can be scary and frightening.

Our robotics program is part of a global group and community called First, www.firstinspires.org. First was started over 30 years ago by Dean Kamen, who’s an incredible inventor. Dean had a vision to create a program to help prepare our young people for the future through science and technology.

Remember that line from the Wizard of Oz, ‘Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh my?’ Well, what do they mean? Lions, tigers, and bears are predators, and in life, we might (or will) face situations where people will take advantage of someone who’s vulnerable.

Well, the short answer is HELL YES! However, the long answer is that it can be more complex than simply putting a drone in the air.

I have always been a happy girl; I mean, with a license plate that says “joyseeker”, how can I not be. My life has been good, a few bumps maybe, but nothing that lasted too long and certainly nothing I remember.

This time last year, Gwen and I were sitting in a hotel room at the Grove Park Inn celebrating getting married just a couple of days before and we drunk ordered our first drone.

Gwen is the inspiration behind Love 2 Fly’s mission of “Seeing the World from a Different View”, she drives our passion for it with her mindset and outlook. For me, that means we are already successful, no matter what. We’re just going to keep sharing what we shoot and our hope is that it brings happiness to whoever see it. This world can be an amazing place to be if we open our eyes.

Have you ever thought about the fact that we seem to put names to pretty much anything that moves? Cars/trucks, boats, planes. Even things that don’t move, do you remember Caddyshack? Judge Smails called his putter Billy Baroo. Or Roy Hobbs in The Natural, he called his bat Wonderboy and when Bobby Savoy brought Roy his bat, the “Savoy Special” when Roy broke Wonderboy.