Two Moro's Travels

by: JM: Next week I plan on driving up to Maine for a week of rest, relaxation, and photography! I do plan on hitting some of my favorite lighthouses (that goes without question), and Acadia National Park. I haven’t been in Acadia in what must be ten years even though I have a home up on the Maine coast! I want to go up and do some photography before the crowds of tourist, motorhomes, and tour buses clog the roads.

As far as photo gear goes, I’m planning on taking some gear I’ve used on previous trip, and some gear that hasn’t traveled with me yet but I’m going to try/test the gear. The reason I’m testing a couple of different bags, cameras and lenses is this summer we are once again hitting the road traveling to Wyoming, Montana, BC, Alaska (again), then back down through BC into Washington State. It’s going to be a very busy summer as I seek to capture more beautiful landscape images.

Later this week I’ll be packing my gear into a couple of bags. I will detail what’s traveling with me on this short trip in a later post. One bag, will remain in the van with the gear I don’t need all the time, and then a backpack which goes with me when I get out to shoot. I’ll also be taking my drone and hopefully I’ll come back with some great drone images. That’s the thing: Even though I take the drone with me pretty much everywhere I rarely use it! Why? I don’t know. I wish I did. In our fifty + day trip up to Alaska and Prudhoe Bay/Deadhorse I think I used the drone maybe five or six times – that was in 2022. Last year, 2023, we spent a month in Newfoundland. I actually used the drone a few times to get closer and capture some aerial images of icebergs off the coast. Sometimes the drone is a hassle. I have so many folks come up to me and ask questions I don’t really get to photograph and enjoy the experience. Honestly I don’t mind too much as it helps educate the public to the fact that drones are not spy machines peeking in your bedroom windows so there is a positive to this experience. I’m polite, friendly and ALWAYS explain to anyone who asks what I’m doing, and where I’m flying. I have no issues with that, except the time-suck and battery drain it causes.

Here’s are a couple of images I captured off the Newfoundland coast. Just a couple of my favorites of the hundreds and hundreds of iceberg photos I took.