Pilot – June 2018

(Rick Simeone) #1

83 days of flying


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some typical conditions. How do
clouds react to this device? What
about differing times of day? Do
rocks reflect infrared light? What
about remaining snowpack and
above timberline areas? The results
were curious and each time viable
on an artistic level. I chose to
pursue them in rapid succession,
as I wanted to understand how this
mysterious machine worked before
undertaking ambitious projects.
Before I had even noticed, I was
in the air every day in a row for
five days. Now this was interesting,
as I had previously set a record in
2014 of continuous daily flying
which reached eight days. (Of
all ironies, nothing about a one
week holiday on a lashing remote


Before I had even


noticed, I was in the air


every day in a row for


five days


CLOCKWISE FROM OPPOSITE: shot using
the infrared-converted camera, local
Cerdanya landscape; granite rockface;
saltpans south of Beziers, France; and
(with the standard camera) the
colouful Camargue Delta

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