Category: Aerial photography
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Los Angeles Dodgers Back-to-Back Parade
November 3, 2025 On November 3, 2025, approximately 500,000 fans packed the streets and watched as the Los Angeles Dodgers strolled through downtown celebrating their back-to-back World Series win. The drone footage was shot towards 1st & Grand Avenue facing west as the team headed to 7th street. CLICK HERE FOR MORE PARADE COVERAGE
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George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art – Progress Report via Drone View – Expo Park
Construction is still ongoing but this is a progress report as of June 2025
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SouthernTrek 2025 Jackson, MS, Natchez, MS – Vidalia, LA & Ferriday, LA
Mississippi River – Vidalia waterfront RETURN TO HOME PAGE
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SouthernTrek 2025 – Built in 1910 Rickwood Field – is the oldest existing baseball stadium in the United States, as well as other sites in Birmingham, AL
Young Jabriel Weir (left) is living history as the only African-American groundskeeper for an MLB stadium. Pictured next to him is one of his trusted assistants and do an amazing job to keep the venue impeccable. This is a short aerial footage of the site. These are a few images of the stadium In 2024…
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Marriott Newport Coast Vacation Club
view from the drone These are a few drone (aerial) shots of Marriott’s Newport Coast Villas. The property is nestled alongside the pacific ocean and just to the north or across the street is the iconic Pelican Hill property. Marriott (Vacation Club) took over the development from Disney and in 2000 started with 55 Villas.…
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Eaton Fire (Altadena) where did it start and how did it start?
The fire department of the county of Los Angeles has not made public the cause of the historic Eaton fire which started in the Altadena (Pasadena) suburb of Los Angeles. I visited the site today and the pictures below document what I saw. As to the cause of the fire, there is speculation it started…
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Kamala Harris flying high in the ‘hood
Kamala Harris & Tim Walz flags are flying high in the ‘hood in the West Adams community of Los Angeles
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Wrigley Field – view from the drone
My assignment is complete as this drone footage captures the great Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL. They are home to the Chicago Cubs. This footage presented some unique challenges but we hung tough and are pleased to present our production.
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Guaranteed Rate Field – View from the Drone
This is an aerial view (drone) of Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. Their previous field – Comisky park was demolished to make room for the new stadium and is now a parking lot directly across the street.
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Lakers – Showtime
Jonas Never aka Never1959 outdid himself with a great mural featuring the Los Angeles Lakers during the Showtime era. The mural is located in the Koreatown community of Los Angeles on Vermont between 7th Street & Wilshire. It faces NORTH. The footage was shot using my DJI Mavic Air2S drone
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Petco Park – home of the San Diego Padres
Aerial footage briefly showing Petco park and the Barrio Logan community. [postscript] You will recall during last October’s playoff game where the Padres were hosting the Dodgers, a drone flew over the stadium and caused a delay. That is a big no-no and makes it tough for drone pilots who abide by very specific guidelines…
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Endeavour Space Shuttle – new home being prepared
The California Science Center is nearing the final phase in building the new home of the Endeavour space shuttle. Located adjacent Figueroa street at the science center campus, the shuttle will be sandwiched between two booster rockets which are already in place. Once completed it will be an iconic site as it will sit upright and show…
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Santa Barbara Day Trip – Amtrak Starlight Route
The day trip included trekking out to the historic Stearn Pier/Wharf
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The Famous Hollywood Sign Turns 100
These are a few shots from the drone capturing the famous Hollywood sign and includes lake Hollywood.
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TOS ’23 Drone Footage
This is some raw (unedited) drone (aerial) footage shot showcasing the 18th annual Taste of Soul (TOS) which was on October 21, 2023 in South Los Angeles. The event has morphed in popularity as the event takes over historic Crenshaw Blvd. (known as the current Black business street) from Stocker Blvd. and goes north to…
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The Bee Hive – Los Angeles
The mural in the cover photo was completed in 2022 by BMike Odums and Whitney Alix and depicts young Emmit Till and his mother Mamie Mobley. The Bee Hive is a creative space located in South Los Angeles at 60th Street between Central Avenue & Avalon Street. It is used for a variety of purposes…
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Night shot – Music Center, Gloria Molina Grand Park & City Hall
These aerial shots were captured from my DJI Mavic Air2S drone.
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Fanatics Merch Madness Gear Give-Away supporting Drugs & Crime Free Youth Foundation, hosted by Bryant Temple AME Church
On June 27, 2023 Fanatics sports pulled out all of the merch for a community give-away. Throngs of people showed up in Leimert Park on the corner of 4th Avenue and Vernon. These are a few aerial shots taken by Fred Thomas, III – FAA Certified Drone Pilot
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Los Angeles and the Nation celebrates Juneteenth
Scene shot (DJI Mavic Air2S) northwest showing downtown cityscape.
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Kansas City Trek – The Negro Leagues Museum and other sites
We made this trek needing to nail down a visit to the Negro League Baseball Museum so I could wrap up research for my Cuba trek, which ties the “Negro League presence in Cuba.” We call them treks because we are on very tight budgets so once we arrived we discarded the car rental and…
