No Drone Zone
Canada recently introduced regulations about where drones can be used.
This is the first physical evidence I have seen of the new rules, not far from the Sandspit Airport (map link) in Haida Gwaii.
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I am off to the field for a few weeks. I will have intermittent internet and will try to respond to comments when I can.
Olympus mjuii, Fuji Superia 200, processed at Canadian Film Lab, cropped.
burnt embers 
I’m all for it, having been interrupted several times already at quiet places by them.
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Hi Lynn – the rules in Canada restrict flying, or the kind of “pilot” that can fly, within 9 km of an airport. Which in Victoria area means almost all of Greater Victoria due to multiple airports less than 18 km apart. We were using them in the field this summer to good effect – you can do some very high resolution mapping with them, and also get a very good feel for the area we are working with aerial photography, and also video for communicating out work (such a video will be coming out in the spring I understand).
The linked article has some good drone footage of work that my colleagues are also conducting a few hundred km north of the project I have been on. https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/time-travelers
And this article shows the mapping applications, from a project co-directed by some of my other colleagues on the same island where I have been. https://www.hakai.org/blog/life-at-hakai/great-walls-quadra
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That horse is thinking, “Whaaat? And I JUST BOUGHT a drone!”
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You Texans, so many skills, reading the minds of horses (and longhorn cows I am sure) was one that I had not guessed though.
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Longhorns’ minds are harder to read, actually. I think it has something to do with the horns…
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That makes sense. I heard also that ranchers had been installing, attached to the long horns, of course, cow hide caps lined with tinfoil.
Only in Texas you say? Pity!
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I’d heard that as well, but can’t provide independent verification. After I take photos of giant dresses this weekend, maybe I can find a nearby heard of longhorns* and see what sort of headgear they’re wearing.
*Of course, here in Texas there’s ALWAYS a herd of longhorns close by, as per state law. And tradition.
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Cow hide caps can be hard to spot on cows. You might need a long lens to get the required detail. Safety Bonus: Photographers wearing long lenses are less likely to agitate Longhorns.
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Do you think I’d need TWO long lenses, though?
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If you held you head sideways maybe just one would do. But that would require a tilting screen if you wanted to take pictures. I think two would be easier.
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So many complications….and it all seemed so simple at first.
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No pain no gain? (Which seems like a peculiarly masochistic sentiment.)
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I know! I prefer “no pain no pain” but I’m sort of a wimp about stuff like that.
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Me too.
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