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Navesink Swim 2017

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May

30

2017

This weekend, I took part in the 11th annual Nave-sink -or- swim, it’s a an open water distance swim race and festival held in Rumson, NJ at the Navesink cove at Victory Park.This year there was a bit of fog hanging over the river at the start but like the last few years the weather was perfect ...

Football practice filmed with my drone

May

29

2017

Decided to spend some time this afternoon over at Foley field, in Bloomfield, to practice flying My DJI Phantom 3 drone. The field is an excellent place because its wide open. To make it more interesting I decided to make my drone do some crane cam work as some guys out there doing some football ...

DJI new SPARK selfie drone for $499

May

24

2017

Well today DJI is announced a new, smaller selfie class drone the colorful DJI Spark ,. The new DJI Spark drone unveiled at the official May 24th 2017 DJI announcement event in NYC has the following features…. Primary Features: Class: Selfie drone Flight time: 16 minutes Speed: up to 31mph Battery: Swappable, Micro USB chargeable ...

Bear mountain hiking..

Apr

29

2017

Last week a few friends and I went to Bear Mountain to hike and do some photography. Wanted to try out my “new” Sony A6000 and the Mavic. Take a peek at the video. Here’s the hike we did up to Bald mountain. https://www.nynjtc.org/hike/bear-mountainharriman-state-parks-0 Some things that I learned from this hike … Be sure to ...

2017 Rutgers Unite 13.1 half

Apr

10

2017

This year Rutgers 13.1 fell on the same day as the Cherry Blossom 10k , so Christine and I decided to do Rutgers 13.1 (last year we sided with Cherry Blossom 10k) , Christine and I once again were back to take on the Rutgers/Unite 13.1 half marathon. Weather was perfect clear blue skies and ...

new hobby drone photography – drones and aerial photography (aka Quad copters)

Mar

9

2017

So I have had my eye on getting a drones (formally known as a quad copter) or UAV in FAA parlance ) for a while. I had started seeing the DJI Phantom series of drones pop-up here and there and had always been curious and intrigued by the flying camera. But I could never rationalize ...

Honest review AnyMote and Amazon Echo (“Alexa”) as a universal TV Remote control

Dec

8

2016

I recently picked up Anymote, hoping to use it as an way to voice control my TV channel viewing. AnyMote is a universal Smart Remote Control hardware and software solution that allows you to control all of your home’s infrared and WiFi devices like TVs, stereos, set-top boxes, media players, Bluetooth speakers, lights, cameras, and ...