Miss that Bike sooooooo bad.

I’m now investigating going Pro with my Drone flying and thus looking at the CAA requirements and associated courses.  This will enable me to create Prints or Canvases and sell but equally look at doing paid work.  All of which I cannot currently do, I am restricted to being a pure hobbyist.

I also have 2 other Drone videos of Laxey and Dhoon Bay all ready to go and make public but I will do this one per evening, which will cover Friday and Saturday this week.

I’m working on a Harley Video where I actually broke the bike going off road.  No crash, just a part fell off meaning the bike wouldn’t run, I did temp fix to get me home but its funny all the same.

I’m also going to try and cut down 2 hours of footage of riding around the Isle of Man roads this evening meaning I have footage to upload for the next 4 days (or more depending on how much I split the 2 hours down).

The job is still very good but very busy and I have now been in this role and thus living on the island for 1 year (as of 16th May).

As I have stated before Blogging doesn’t come naturally to me never being a fan of daily diaries, so don’t expect to see daily blogs, you’re more likely to see just 1 or 2 posts per week along with my preferred video medium for vlogging.

Please dont forget to sub to my youtube (reefislife), like my FB page (isleofmanbydrone), follow me on twitter (reefislife) and also now instagram (isleofmanbydrone).

All the best

Craig

Added a Laxey photo gallery

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/laxey/

Released my latest Douglas DRone Video

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/video/

Still have plenty of videos to edit, think there are about 3 more including a new one at Laxey.

Weather not great today but looks better for tomorrow so may do some crazy off road adventures on the Harley…..watch this space.

Craig

Anyway, weather continues to be awesome on the Isle of Man.

Since my last blog I have added a few more Photo galleries and uploaded the odd video one of which was very successful ie the Ramsey one.

Galleries created are, so please feel free to view.

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/cronk-ny-arrey-laa/

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/cashtal-yn-ard/

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/ramsey/

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/kerroogarroo-fort/

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/douglas/

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/sulby-glen/

The videos uploaded so far cover Ramsey, Kerroogarroo and Cashtal Fort.

Videos to be released or edited cover Douglas, Cronk-ny-arrey-laa, Sulby Glen and motorcycle vlog from my ride into work today.

Otherwise, things are generally ok and im just plodding along.

Youtube continues to grow and I now have 283 subscribers, so thanks to all those people who find my work slightly interesting.

All the best

craig

Yesterday I created a couple of videos (actually 3) that have been uploaded to my sister site www.reefislife.com as they are not drone-related and although my youtube channel is a bit of a mix of subjects I am absolutely determined not to mix my websites up.

The videos are about “why” I have not uploaded recently and to reassure you more is coming I’m simply having a break from editing, the other is my 3000 mile update on my Harley Street Bob and the third was a very short iPhone video of some rally cars.  This weekend I hope to get actual footage of the rally cars tearing up the tarmac around the island.

The weather has been pretty damned good this week, although windy it has been dry, sunny and warm enough to mean I have ridden my bikes to work 3 out of 4 days and the weekend looks to continue with the nice weather and Sunday might even not be windy so I might get to fly the drone (if I can be bothered), unfortunately from what i can see the rally is not on on Sunday and thus due to high winds tomorrow and rally footage will be recorded using either my iPhone or GoPro, that said I may even try to learn to use the DJI Osmo Mobile properly as I have remembered to get both Batteries charged, the Osmo is basically a Gimbal that my Iphone connects to meaning nice steady shots, but I have found it difficult to get into using as its just so simple to pick the phone up and record and then stabalise during the editing stage, we will see, I really want to use it and I am very much geared up to try and produce some nice films around the island over the summer with the osmo, iphone, go pro, drift action cameras, canon 7d SLR and of course the Phantom 4 pro Drone.

Then went out later in the day on the Harley to Laxey, Ramsey and back home the long way round.

Of course I have recorded it all but I’ve run out of steam in terms of editing so it may take me a while as I quite honestly need a break from it.

If I ride the bikes to work I’ll still record the footage and use it in future but I’m feeling a little burnt out and just want to chill for a few days.

Hope that makes sense and you all stick with me and my channel.

Although it was seriously windy today I have managed to get out on the Harley and record footage for a Vlog.  Will work on that tomorrow but also hope to get out on one of my other bikes tomorrow to gain some traction on some bike videos.

I also cleaned the Harley today and am a little upset that the aluminium is going crusty thus although the bike and chrome is clean I fully intend to dig the Dremel I got for xmas out and try to polish the aluminium to make the bike perfect again.  If this can be achieved then the bike will get a layer of Acf-40 to protect it from the salt air.

Thank goodness it’s a long Bank Holiday weekend.  I needed a rest.

I’m currently at home editing my Peel video ready for upload and go live on Thursday evening.

All that then remains is the videos from near Niarbyl and Port Grenaugh.

Hoping tomorrow to ride one of my bikes into work to enable a Vlog update as one is long over due.  I’m currently up to 264 subscribers on my YouTube channel and it has shown good growth over the last week.  I still have to do a draw for hitting the 200 subs but may now draw 2 names when I hit 300 as that shouldn’t be that far away now.

Weather is cold, windy and wet at the moment on the Isle of Man but I know it will improve.  Very much looking forward to a long bank holiday weekend.

Take care all.

Craig

Anyway on a positive…..I have uploaded more photos to the following galleries and pages for your hopeful enjoyment…..

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/festival-of-steam-steam-engines/ – Steam Engines

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/port-grenaugh/ – Port Grenaugh

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/peel/ – Peel and some of these are stunning (I Think)

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/niarbyl/ – Niarbyl

http://www.isleofmanbydrone.com/photos/jurby/ – Jurby Beach – Ship Wreck

All will have videos to follow but this is my start to relieve some of my own stress.

Let me know what you think please.