I Can't Walk But I Can Fly Blog by Aaron Avila

Hi my fellow drone enthusiast friends! It's Aaron, I was talking to  my wife  Rebecca ,  the driving force behind my  I Can't Walk But I Can Fly Drone Show .  (Get it? I can't drive)  Stroke survivor humor! lol Rebecca brought up a great point. Why box the Drone Show in and focus only on our Sonoma County   Wine Country ? Sonoma County is full of the most beautiful and interesting areas in the world!  So Rebecca and I have decided to broaden our show purpose to include filming interesting and beautiful areas located within  Sonoma County California .  This new show purpose will begin on my birthday, September 1st. Peeps, my goal as a DJI Drone Pilot will be to learn cinematic drone filming. Being a half paralyzed wheelchair bound stroke survivor, my goal will be to learn to be proficient in using the DJI Intelligent Flight Modes to pull off some epic drone shots someday! So please come with me on my journey ...

(Click image above to join the amazing DJI Forum/Community) I never ever thought I'd be called a  DJI Captain! lol Here's my notification:  Qualified Group - Captain I salute each one of you. I'll where the title with great pride! Thank you, Aaron P.s. Here's a positive energy shoutout to the one person who believed in me when no one else did and made this Drone journey come true.My dearest bro and Show sponsor, Tom Iliffe

Hi my Drone Community! As I have shared with you before, I'm being live stream Mentored by a live streaming expert Roland Takaoka of DIY Live Streaming. In our meeting today I voiced my frustrations producing my Drone Show and would he give me advise how to make a quality show people will want to watch. First words out of his mouth, were, I needed to stop trying to use a slide show presentation show format. Roland said "you're not proficient at them and you attempting to use them is pulling myself and my audience out of the live stream". I imiediatly equated it to shooting cinematic drone to fast or jerky. It pulls the focus of watcher out of the scene. So the first Saturday of next month  September 1st (My Birthday) I will not be using slides.  Please come see my show community! I would welcome any suggestions to build it! Let's build it together and turn it into a global movement! You willing to make a difference? Follow me! I'm a stroke survivo...

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Because I accidentally deleted my live drone show yesterday I must re shoot my drone show today at 2 PM PST. I'm hoping some of you can come be part of my live chat audience! I will be hosting a 15 minute live Drone Q&A at the end of my show. The more of you that come, the more fun we will have! Click here to launch YouTube Event 

Video footage every first Saturday of the month at  2 PM PST on my YouTube Channel. LIVE! Safeway should sponsor my show hu? (Click on my picture to launch event)

Newby notes. Remember this Saturdays show. I learned a lot! No roads in film. No power lines. Don't drop phone and shatter screen minutes before filming show. Yes! It really happened! Need Polar Pro ND 16 Filter Need to get real shade box for phone. ( Wife's idea of using shopping bag may be perfect!) I will video my setup next month.  Go out earlier in the morning to get better shadows and contrast. Not sure why,  DJI Media Maker Software defaulted to spherical Panoramic when I selected horizontal panoramic in app? A DJI Forum members VIP sneak peak of Saturdays show! Hope to see you at Saturdays live Show! (Click above to launch YouTube Event)

Exciting day! Today is my first day I film the first of my new show series of the Sonoma County Wine Country. Drone Over The Wine Country My goal is to bring you the Sonoma and Napa County Wine Country to you around the world from the lense of Spark the Drone.  Unless DJI would like to sponsor a better Drone?  (Figure it can't hurt to ask right?) Filming ideas: As per my DJI Forum show poll winner, I'll will start the series off by shooting a video of some vineyard studded hills of the Sonoma County Wine Country. On the first Saturday of every month I will fly one new location and film the many incredible and stunning Wineries and surrounding points of interest within the Sonoma and Napa Wine Country. My goal will be to learn cinematic drone filming as I go on this Wine Country Journey. So in preparation last night I tried to use Panoramic mode for the first time. The sunset wasn't anything special but I was just trying to learn how to use it for my...