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Nights In [Purple & Gold] Satin - Aerial Appreciation Stunning Sunset Dramatic Dusk - Apollo Beach, Tampa Bay, Florida - IMRAN®
As dusk darkened, new Nights in Purple and Gold Satin draped Apollo Beach, Tampa Bay, Florida — and me. In that radiant veil, the glow of my eternal gratitude burned bright, a light no night could dim.
This is an absolutely unedited, untouched, SOOC (straight out of camera) DJI M3P drone video I captured at my blessed home on August 2, 2025.
Tampa Bay Residents Suffering From Florida Winter Weather - IMRAN™
This was the scene on a typical winter morning on Tampa Bay in February. I had not flown my DJI M3P drone in a while, and this seemed like the perfect day to do it. Notice the way we suffer such weather.... by going boating or to the beach, for example.
Magnificent Late October Tampa Bay Sunset Five Years Ago At Apollo Beach Home 360°x360° - IMRAN™
This perfect moment of tranquility was captured with 2GB worth of Nikon D850 handheld photos. It was autumn and the last week of October 2018 was coming up.
I took exactly 4 dozen photos as accurately as I could, trying to keep my hands steady and arms level. I did that while turning full 360 three times hoping to not move too much from the spot I started at. I wanted to catch all the details top to bottom, and all around, even though some of the edges get messed up when handheld photos are stitched.
It is ironic that 2GB of photos must be reduced into a 5MB or so image for Facebook to accept. In the full image, especially on a large screen TV, you would see this 30,000 x 150,000 pixels image as if you were standing here next to me.
You can see my Yamaha WaveRunner jet ski, which was lost after a storm a few years later. The DJI Phantom 4 drone stood on dock ready on deck for a sunset flight.
A boat was passing my dock heading home. This was just four months before I would get Kennedy, my German Shepherd Dog you all know, as well as K2 a year after that.
What a joy to be able to see this photo and bow my head in gratitude at what I am blessed to call home on Tampa Bay, in Apollo Beach, Florida. Kennedy and I went into the water as I flew the DJI Phantom 4 overhead for a moody dusk sunset livestream. I captured a few photos of us from different angles. This was stitched from 3 separate photos. Can you see Kennedy and me?
Many of us became aware of the term flat spin from the deadly scene in Top Gun, when Tom Cruise's F14 TomCat loses airflow over the wings and spins flat down to the sea.
Thankfully there was no flat spin, nor any crash in water, in the filming of this aerial spin drone flying quick view of the flats on Tampa Bay at Apollo Beach, across from my blessed home.
It was a 45 seconds clip but I sped it up to save you time. :-) It was part of my livestream today which got disconnected a minute into the video.
I will share one by one the main clips I happened to have hit record on during flight. I hope you enjoy this virtual visit in visual reality.