As a boy, I loved making and flying paper airplanes. We lived on the edge of a large canyon, so I’d launch them and watch to see how far they could glide into the open air below. (I’m sure they were biodegradable…)

Later, when I had a bit of allowance, I’d buy those little balsa wood planes—some with rubber band propellers, others with tiny wheels that promised, though rarely delivered, a soft landing.

In my teens, I got into model rocketry. I’d save up for kits from a far-off company in Colorado. We’d head to a designated launch area, attach the wire igniters, perform the official count down, and hit the button. Sometimes the rockets soared and the parachute deployed at just the right moment. We’d sprint to catch them mid-air—if we were lucky. Other launches… well, let’s just say they were less than graceful. But no matter how high they went, I always had one frustration: I couldn’t go with them. I couldn’t see or record the world from that magical vantage point.

We did try one rocket with a crude onboard camera and a tiny piece of photo film, but we never got it to work.

Then came commercially available drones—finally a way to take my father’s advice and get my camera where most others couldn’t. Today, I’m an FAA-licensed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) pilot and a member of a large drone group that travels to stunning locations to capture images and video we could only dream of a decade ago.

Below are my currently featured aerial photographs. I hope you enjoy them. And if one speaks to you, let’s talk about how it might become part of your home or workspace.

Click on the images in the gallery to go to the detail page for that image. Hover over the images to see what the image might look like in your world.