In the aftermath of the storms over the weekend, the water around the island has been pretty choppy, so we went out to the ocean side of the island to see what the cove around Agios Nikitas looked like. We pulled up to the little parking spot where you can look back towards the town so that H could get out and take some photos as the waves looked choppy and the water itself was almost opaque in the churn.
There was another car in the spot when we got there, and a young guy was standing near his car looking off in this distance — I looked a little closer and realized he was holding a drone controller! He eventually landed his drone — a larger model than the little one I have — but it inspired me to get out and put my own drone in the air just to play around a little.
After I started up the drone and was getting set to take off, he came back out of his car (as he heard the startup noise and recognized it) and came over and introduced himself, and we had a nice chat about Lefkada, drone flying, and just island life in general. He had moved to Lefkada from Israel about a year prior, and was doing drone film and photography as a full-time job for various tourism companies and boat outfits. Nice guy! Offered to be helpful or make recommendations if we needed them. Check out his instagram here: motti_avraham
I’m still figuring out the drone stuff, the neat flight paths pre-programmed into it and such, so it’s nice to get some practice. We still had to run back into town, so we continued the photo safari by taking the northern road into town and catching the windmill ruins right as the sun was going down behind the cliffs.
I’m cutting the video together tonight and trying to work out some fun titles or effects or music or something, something more to keep learning how to edit this stuff as well, and then I’ll put it up on the Youtube channel.