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A wild river, snowy trees, high mountains – ideal for a drone flight. In Ischgl, Tyrol I found all these ingredients at one place and was eager after breakfast to move to that location and start filming. I verified that the SD cards and batteries were in the bag. At the site, I placed the iPhone of my wife onto the Zhiyun Smooth II gimbal. I can thoroughly recommend that gimbal, it holds the phone steady, and it is easy to handle. 🙂 Then filming started, and I took my DJI Phantom 4 Pro out of the box.

Have a look at the video with the starting procedure:

The flying experience:

The landing, I had to be very careful, “Return to home” function didn’t work, because of the high trees, I did the process manually:

Videos processed with Apple iMovie

On my way home from the birthday party of my brother, I spotted this cool sky. I decided to make a short iPhone photography session with sky and vines and some walking around. In the evening when I continued going home, this sky turned into pink and orange, and again I took my iPhone for some shots. 🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

• Camera: iPhone 6 Plus
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/5700s
• Focal length: 4.15mm
• ISO: 32

There are many similarities between the Wachau and the Tuscany. One concise resemblance are the terraces for the vines which are built from natural stone, often by hand, which is very hard work, because it’s impossible to place construction machines there. Beside the wine, the Wachau is also renown for apricots.

Post Processed with: Photoshop

• Camera: D-LUX 5
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 10.7mm
• ISO: 100

From time to time I travel to Schloss-Hof, one of the castles where Prince Eugene of Savoy lived. He was a very successful military commander against Turkish and Polish troops and an admired strategist and politician.

• Camera: SLT-A35
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• Shutter speed: 1/500s
• Focal length: 11mm
• ISO: 100

Since we had to wait about 1 hour for our “online”-taxi at the airport, we took a little tour through this shopping centre. There was a typical Heineken-bar where we started our Amsterdam-tour with a big glass of fresh beer.  🙂

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4.5
• Shutter speed: 1/250s
• Focal length: 65mm
• ISO: 100