Yellow Rose Drone Videos

This weekend, we had the opportunity to fly inside the famous Traders Village in San Antonio, before it opened to the public for the day. Definitely a large place with something for every member of your family. Wear your walking shoes, because you'll wear them out! Lots of shady areas to take a break, or while your kids are on enjoying a ride. Parking is $5, plus admission per person, depending upon what access you are interested in. There was another large Flea Market area that we didn't have the time to fly around, so perhaps next time we can do that. See their website at https://tradersvillage.com/san-antonio/ for full details and schedule of special events. Note: They do not allow unauthorized drones to fly around their property, so leave your drone at home or locked in your vehicle.

Every Spring, Traders Village in San Antonio Texas plants a 10 acre field of sunflowers, but when they grow, a maze is revealed from the sky. See their website for full details, but generally the field is open on weekends for general admission. There are different admission ticket prices available, depending upon whether you want access to other areas of the venue, and they often allow limited harvesting of the flowers for a fee. Check out https://tradersvillage.com/san-antonio/ for full details and hours of operation. For more info about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com or follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter. Music from Epidemic Sound. We flew the DJI #Avata Drone with the video recording in 4k 60fps.

@BMacksAerialVisuals is running a video challenge for Avata FPV pilots, or any FPV pilot, but it's aimed at Avata pilots. The "rules" included a flight between 90 & 120 seconds, keeping the speed at 5mph or higher, keeping the height above the ground to no more than 2.0 feet, and no straight shots for more than 25 seconds. It needs to be recorded on the Goggles, because that's how the telemetry shows on the screen. This is what Drone pilots see while flying. We have to watch our battery life, speed, elevation, GPS signal strength, etc., all at the same time. This isn't as easy as it sounds, especially if the surface isn't very flat. If flying over grassy areas, you have to watch out for weeds or bumps in the surface. My first attempt was on a sloped parking lot, with about 20ft change in elevation, caused by a large drainage dip thru the middle. The goggles video can be edited to fit the 90-120 second length limitations, but no fancy editing, like transitions, to bypass times that didn't meet the height & speed rules. I've added my logo, a title at the start, and some perky music. The video is 92 seconds long. Enjoy! Music was royalty free from the Filmora editor.

In 1943, a 96- by 18-foot floating wooden pontoon bridge was first built in Sargent, Texas, to span the Inter Coastal Waterway, between the mainland and the island with FM457. In 1975, the old wooden bridge was replaced with a larger metal pontoon span, which cost $270,000 to install. New approaches were added in 1981, and no additions were made until the new design, the concrete Corkscrew Bridge was built. The old "swing bridge" took about 15 minutes to be manually opened for each barge to pass thru. Barges would call ahead via radio to the TxDot bridge operators, so they could open it in time. In May 2014, a barge struck the bridge on the southern end, causing it to be temporarily shut down over the Memorial Day weekend. After multiple public hearings and subsequent weather delays, Construction for current Sargent Corkscrew Bridge finally began in August 2018 and wasn't completed until mid 2020. [Source: https://thefacts.com/news/sargent-bridge-completion-targeted-for-spring/article_81b90193-ade4-570e-a12d-54521d22174b.html] For more info about us, visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com and follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter. Music from Epidemic Sound. We flew the DJI Mini 3 Pro drone for this project.

#bridge #corkscrew #sargent This is a short cell phone video of the corkscrew bridge in Sargent Texas on the Texas Gulf Coast. I have a more elaborate drone video coming soon. This is a very unique rebuilt bridge. I heard somebody say there were only two of these bridges built, but I'll need to confirm that first. I first saw this bridge on a video that somebody shared with the Ken Heron Thursday Night Live YouTube stream. I immediately put that bridge on my bucket list to go fly and this weekend, I finally accomplished that.

We used the DJI Mini 3 Pro drone to record this short video.

@BMacksAerialVisuals started a contest for the DJI Avata FPV drone. The rules were simple, footage from the Goggles showing the telemetry info, no editing by adding special effects, etc., and must be between 1:30 and 2 minutes long. We did that video for the contest, but decided to take the original footage from the drone (4k instead of 1080p) and turn it into this fun nighttime adventure. We've added some smart ass comments along the way, just to spice it up, but otherwise, no special editing tricks were used. No color correction, no speed ramping to make it look more impressive, just flying. The drone did have Horizon Level activated, so you aren't seeing the sweeping turns like the goggles did. We'll post that video on Friday, just ahead of Brian's livestream at 4:30pm CT. You can find out more about @OriginaldoBo products at his new website, https://OriginaldoBodesigns.com , but he hadn't listed the Aurora Tactical LED Mount on the site as of 05/23/2023. There is a contact form to reach out to Ken if interested. We bought the Aurora A3 700 Lumen rechargeable LED key chain lights from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HYQ5FYQ/ Ken is not paying me to make this video or to promote his products. I use them frequently and buy everything myself. Follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter. Commercial clients should visit Https://YellowRoseDrones.com for more info. Music from Epidemic Sound of course.

The rain cleared on Saturday, after dropping nearly 2 inches in the area. A few of us drone pilots decided to meet up behind the Lodge at the Great Northwest Community Improvement Association (HOA) and fly some drones. This video is from my DJI Avata FPV drone as I flew it thru and around the greenbelt area. This area has a mixture of trees and open areas, making it just perfect for flying FPV drones. Follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram & Twitter to see our videos. Commercial clients should visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com for info about our services as a Part 107 commercial drone pilot. Music from Epidemic Sound of course.

One of the fun things I get to do while I'm driving around the Texas Hill Country, is fly my drones in very scenic locations. I had spotted this field of wildflowers a few days before, but had lacked the free time to power up a drone and fly around the field. I flew the DJI Avata FPV drone, close up and personal to the flowers. Someone had already driven trucks thru part of the roadside field, destroying the flowers. I think there was a contractor burying fiber optic cables along the road, so it may have been them. The audio track is from Epidemic Sound of course. Follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter if interested in seeing more of our work. For commercial clients, please visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com if you have a need for our services.

Over the weekend, we had a mini meet-up behind the soccer fields at the Great Northwest HOA in San Antonio. 3 pilots showed up, but the 3rd pilot had to leave early, leaving Pat Kelly and myself to play. Pat challenged me to fly under the benches, meaning the picnic tables, but I thought he meant the aluminum bleachers near the soccer field. So I tried & tried to successfully fly thru them, length wise, with partial success and a few crashes along the way. But Pat was more than willing to pick up the Avata after it crashed, clean off the mud and grass, and set me up for another attempt. Enjoy! Follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter as YellowRoseDrones, or visit our website at https://YellowRoseDrones.com. Simple, yes? Music track from Epidemic Sound of course.

I had some time to waste on a Friday afternoon and put the DJI Avata FPV drone up in the air to play around. Nothing special, just flying in Sport mode, not Manual / Acro mode. Teasing some trees in the drainage area behind the complex, shooting some gaps where they had signs up advertising space for lease, etc. Follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter under the channel name YellowRoseDrones. Music from Epidemic Sound.

A friend of ours, John Daily, posted about this event on Facebook. When we spotted that post, we contacted him to see how long it was going on , then drove over to check it out. We contacted the event sponsor, obtained permission to fly, and put the DJI Avata Drone in the sky. This video is longer than usual, nearly 5 minutes, but we were having so much fun & the crowd seemed to enjoy watching the drone buzz around like a butterfly looking for flowers. Enjoy! For more info about us, follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram & Twitter as YellowRoseDrones. Or visit our website https://YellowRoseDrones.com Music / sound effects from Epidemic Sound.

On my way down I-37, between San Antonio and Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast, I stopped at this deserted picnic area to stretch my legs. When I saw all of the covered picnic areas and trees, I went back to the SUV to retrieve my DJI Avata FPV drone. (FPV = First Person View, where you wear goggles to fly it.) This video serves no particular purpose, other than to share my joy of flying and practicing flying thru gaps, including tree limbs. Trees hate drones, so I like to tease them as much as possible. It turned out that a lot of birds liked those trees as much as I did, but they didn't stick around to talk with the drone as it flew around & thru the branches. My thanks to #TxDot for providing a place for me to relax and practice my FPV gap flying skills. I've still got a long, long, really long, way to go with building my skills before competing on the Drone Racing League courses. (Or any other FPV course for that matter.)

From what I've been able to find out, the Bob Hall Fishing Pier suffered damage in 2017 from Hurricane Harvey, but it was the 2020 Hurricane Hanna that doomed the pier structure, resulting in demolition back in 2022. Bids were approved to rebuild the pier, using concrete supports, rather than the original wooden structure. I found news articles claiming the cost was anywhere from $18 mil to $26 mil to rebuild it. All of the 2022 articles said it would be rebuilt by 2023, which obviously hasn't even begun to happen as of May 14, 2023. Once the reconstruction begins, I'll try to make a few more visits over time to see how well the new structure is coming along. One news article claimed it would only take 130 days to complete it. One note... Save yourself from paying a $500 fine by buying an annual beach permit prior to parking on the beach. The cost is only $12 a year and the permit sticker is available from almost any convenience store or tourist trap shop on the island. I bought mine from a Stripes Valero gas station after crossing the causeway onto Padre Island. The beach pass is good for everything from Padre Island, north to Port Aransas and even the public beaches at Rockport, Texas. [Source: https://www.virtualbx.com/construction-preview/corpus-christi-bob-hall-pier-2022-demolition-to-repurpose-concrete-as-offshore-reef/ ] [Source: https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/two-years-after-hurricane-hanna-heavily-damaged-bob-hall-pier/503-4558f317-97a2-46ee-b7bf-b6552b95582e ] We flew the DJI FPV drone for this flight, reaching speeds of over 60mph as we skimmed the waves along the beach front. This was only in Sport mode, not manual mode which can reach almost to 99mph in speed. Audio was recorded live while we flew, using a Tascam digital audio recorder. For more info about us, please visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com or follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter as @YellowRoseDrones

We had a fantastic sunset last night, very colorful with lots of orange. So we pulled off the highway into a Texas Rest Area and put the DJI Mini 3 Pro drone up in the air about 100ft AGL (Above Ground Level) to record it. We then did speed ramping to condense the video down to about a minute, plus our closing video clip. Music is from Epidemic Sound of course. Editing software used was Wondershare Filmora 12. For more info about us, please visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com or follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter.

This is the 2nd of multiple videos from the 2023 Bulverde Run For The Hills 10k / 5k / 1 mile race. This event benefited the Bulverde - Spring Branch Community Activity Center. This particular video covers the start of the 10k & 5k races. It combines footage from a GoPro camera (recorded by Jeff Dillon) and a DJI Mini 3 Pro drone. You will see runway 16 for Bulverde Airpark 1T8, almost in direct line with the road used for the race. We coordinated with Anderson Aviation and monitored their CTAF frequency 122.800 while the drone was in the air, to be sure the drone wasn't near their approach path whenever an airplane was landing. For more info about us, visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com and follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter as @YellowRoseDrones

This is a short video that we took while driving by a Windmill Power Generating Farm along IH-37 on our way back from Corpus Christi, Texas. It gets pretty windy near the Texas Gulf Coast and these Wind Turbines almost never stop turning.

Just a quick video from one of our drone flights over the harbor at Rockport, Texas, while we were there for their annual Kite Festival. They have a beautiful harbor, but the beaches, that we saw, weren't very inviting. We're sure they have other beaches for accessing the Gulf of Mexico, but none were near this location. Visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com or follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter. Audio track from Epidemic Sound.

The 2023 Annual Rockport Kite Festival got underway on Saturday, April 29th, with more winds than the kite flyers would have preferred. The morning started off in the 15mph-20mph, just at the upper range for the larger kites to fly safely, or my drones for that matter. As the day progressed and the crowd grew larger, the wind speeds picked up to the point where they were gusting to 35mph or more. None of the really big kites could handle this wind speed and we chose not to risk flying our drone any further. In fact, the wind gusts became so violent that they caused the tent canopy on our pop-up tent to get spiked on the center pole, collapsing onto the frame. This video isn't up to our usual quality standards because we used a regular camera (that didn't have built-in image stabilization) to try and capture a sense of what was happening during the event. Toward the end of this video, even the tiny white & grey self propelled kites were having problems flying in the wind. For more information about us, please visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com or follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter as @YellowRoseDrones Music from Epidemic Sound.

Just a quick edit to share as the event is getting underway. Almost too windy to safely fly, but we've got multiple drones that can handle it. This video shot using the Autel Evo 2 Pro drone.

We spent a Sunday afternoon out at the San Antonio Country Club, flying our drones during their Fiesta Celebration and subsequent fireworks after sunset. While we were waiting for the fireworks, we explored the more empty areas of the golf course and checked out their beautifully sculptured ponds and waterfall. For more info about us, visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com or follow us on YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Twitter. Music from Epidemic Sound. We flew the DJI Avata FPV drone to record this video footage.

This video was recorded during the San Antonio Country Club's 2023 Fiesta Fireworks. We chose to run this video at normal speeds, instead of speed ramping to shorten it. Most viewers won't watch the entire 11 minutes of video, because frankly, once you've seen one set of fireworks, they all start to look the same. LOL We did record the fireworks audio live during the show, but tried not to record the music they were playing over in the distance where the majority of the members were watching the show from.

Games2U San Antonio / Central Texas is always ready for Fiesta San Antonio or any other excuse to inflate the games or roll out the trucks with the electronic games. If you are holding a community or company event and want some unique entertainment for the kids, or adults, look no further than Games2U.

We tried flying the DJI Mini 3 Pro drone down in the Florida Keys at the southern end of the famous 7-mile bridge, but the wind was gusting over 25mph in an erratic manner and we almost crashed the drone. We got the Autel Evo 2 Pro drone out to fly, but needed to charge the batteries first, so no luck at that location.