Tag: Drones

Drone Flight: Mohogany in Calgary

This is a drone flight over the community of Mahogany, a large residential suburb in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The community has been under construction for years, and it was interesting to explore that from the air in July 2024.

They’ve completed a great deal of construction over the past two years, but there’s still so much to go. I don’t see construction like this where I live — pretty much everything is already built out — so I find it fascinating to watch the growth of new construction like this over time.

Maybe I’ll do another flight like this in 2030 and see how different it is.

Drone Flight: Wanapum Lake Area

Every year my family and I do a road trip back to Canada to visit our family and friends in the province of Alberta. We fly in the winter, but drive in the summer, as not only is a road trip a lot less expensive, I believe my children shouldn’t grow up not having experienced being stuck in a car for many hours at a time. 😆

The trip east, then north, takes about 12 hours with a couple of EV charging stops along the way. As we drive from our home city of Renton, Washington, we drive east on the I90. Once we come over the pass, the terrain starts to change.

It switches from lush forests to flat plains where farming occurs. And along that route is an area that I can only describe as “the badlands”: little to no vegetation, dry, arid land that is starkly beautiful. Last summer I finally stopped on the way back home to fly my drone around the area to capture some of that beauty after two years of saying “You know, this would make a great drone video”.

It reminds me a great deal of Drumheller, Alberta, a badlands area and the site of many dinosaur fossil finds.