Spherography Drone: Seacliff Pier California
My Spherography Drone is mounted with a Spherography Camera enabling me to take spherographs (spheries) — 360 degree spherical images and videos — from interesting first-person perspectives.
Spherography Video
I recently captured a spherographic video of the California storm damage to the Seacliff pier at Seacliff State Park, Aptos, California. In the following spherographic video hosted on YouTube 360, I fly you next to the damaged pier that used to extend out to the decaying concrete ship as well as giving you a unique first-person perspective of the concrete ship. You can pan around the video. Virtual Reality (VR) headgear will fully immerse you.
NOTE: On a mobile device — to pan around — you may need to view the video directly in the YouTube app by clicking here.
The following is the same Spherographic video but flattened into an equirectangular format where you can see the entire Spherographic image but you cannot pan around.
Spherographic Still Frames
The following four spherographs are frames taken from this video.
This first spherograph shows the “dark side” of the bow of the concrete ship that most people standing on the beach cannot possibly see. Click and drag in the image to look around.
This second spherograph shows the back end of the concrete ship. Look down to see some of the sea birds who were not scared off by the drone. Click and drag in the image to look around.
This third spherograph taken at altitude is a bird’s-eye view of Aptos, California and the California coastline at Seacliff State Beach. Look straight down to see the decaying concrete ship. Click and drag in the image to look around.
This fourth spherograph shows more of the pier damage. Before the storm this pier extended to the concrete ship’s bow. Click and drag in the image to look around.
Concrete Ship History
The following is a photograph of the same concrete ship circa 1930. The ship has weathered an impressive amount of decay.
Seacliff State Beach and Concrete Ship Location
Spherography Drone Future
I will be posting more Spherography Drone videos and spherographic still frames as I travel the world lugging my Spherography Drone in my leather backpack.
