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Some lunch breaks are more inspiring than others.

This one wasn't.

I was working for a client on an industrial estate at the time, and there wasn't exactly a stunning landscape waiting outside the office. Some company buildings, roads, parking lots... you know, the sort of environment that makes you think "damn, I really should have brought my camera" approximately... well... never.

But I did have my DJI Mini 3 Pro with me (as almost always...).

And there happened to be a small sailing club nearby.

So... up we go.

Funny how quickly a rather boring place changes when you look straight down at it. Suddenly those few little boats and floating pontoons weren't really boats and pontoons anymore, but lines, shapes and colours on a huge green canvas.

Especially that one red boat, which apparently had decided it was going to be the star of the show whether I agreed or not.

That's probably still one of the things I like most about drones. You don't necessarily need spectacular mountains, castles or Icelandic waterfalls.

Sometimes you just need to look at something ordinary from a completely different angle.

And apparently a boring industrial-estate lunch break and a few sailing boats will do just fine.

And since we're talking drones anyway, a small community update as well.

I've recently taken over the drone community from @ksteem, who kept the original community going for years. That old community has now been renamed KDrone and will remain as the archive, while we're continuing with a new active Drone community here:

👉 Join the Drone community ->

👉 /created/hive-193236

So if you used to post your drone photography in the old Drone community, come join us there instead.

Same sky, new hangar.

Or something like that. I should probably stick to photography.

See you from above.

🔧 I build things on Hive...

Apparently I have a slight problem with leaving things alone when I think they could work better, so over time that turned into quite a collection of free Hive tools.

Account stats, tipping, earnings, governance, witness tools and several other things I probably built because I needed them myself first.

👉 Explore my Hive tools

Everything is free to use, and I'm still adding things. Because apparently having hobbies wasn't enough.

🤖 ...and I run a witness too

A lot of those tools, bots and other experiments exist because I'm still very much invested in building on Hive, including the boring infrastructure underneath it all.

If you think that deserves a witness vote:

👉 Vote for @botlord
But these are also backed by me!
👉 Vote for @nathalie-s
👉 Vote for @aliveandmmb
👉 Vote for @bradleyarrow

And while you're there, it never hurts to check whether the rest of your witness votes are still going to active witnesses. Ghosts are notoriously bad at producing blocks.