Drones and the Garden

So, many years ago we got onto the "go get a drone" craze and bought this little thing with a camera thinking we would be able to get some good drone shots like everyone was saying you could get.

Suffice to say those pics never happened. This was due to many things.  The most inhibiting factor was the extremely difficult steering of the drone itself.  We at first thought this was a user error.  We'd never flown a drone before and who were we to think it would be just so easy?

Well, after many years we broke the drone back out for some very simple shots.  We figured we couldn't miss now that we had met someone who actually flies drones for a living.  Yes this is an actual job where you deliver goods by drone.  He looked at the little thing and told us how cute it was and that it shouldn't be difficult.......  Then he wept.

Not only is the drone super hard to fly for ANYONE, it's size makes it doubly so.  Within 30 seconds he had nearly lost the drone over a fence. In less than a minute he had crashed it twice and one of the guards fell off.  So no, we aren't necessarily bad drone pilots, we just have a crap drone.

So what about the fact that it has a camera and can take pictures?  Well, due to its crappiness, and low signal strength, if we ever got it high enough to take a good aerial photo, the wind would carry it off into oblivion and we would probably never see it again.

Looks cute hovering 1 foot above the ground though, doesn't it?