you are right Woody about baja will never be the same. I was thinking how cool the drone footage would be hovering above a whale watching boat that
has several friendly whales with it...in fact I have been doing alot of thinking about photography and the insane amount of gear that is used these
days.
It used to be annoying with all the clicks, beeps & whirs of cameras when we were communing with whales at the lagoon...video footage
demonstrates just how much photography noise pollution there is. I can just imagine the obnoxious noise of a drone in a nice whale video.
Now with the Go Pro explosion, there are usually people in the panga with long sticks they use to get a better shot either from above, underwater or
sticking it out. I found that several of my best whale still photographs became unusable because of the go pro sticks in the shot. Imagine my dismay
trying to photograph the depth of understanding in a whale eye and all you see is a darn stick in front of it!
I was given a go pro for Christmas and everyone is saying...oh you gotta get a stick which indeed would take great overhead and underwater shots but
they sure are a pain in the butt when they get in peoples way and in their photographs...plus whales can startle when the sticks are thrust into the
water beside them. Last season we had a man with one on a boat and a whale we knew to be very affectionate would come up to the boat and every time
the man stuck the stick in the water, she would avert her visit and veer off...it was very obvious to the other passengers and we were all put off by
the guy when he would not stop sticking that damn pole in the water...even when the boat captain told him to stop.
So amigos...please be sensitive and conscious about your photography implements especially on a panga with other people...or near nude
beaches...hahaha.
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
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