Tag: south africa - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: south africa

A short aerial film showing the beauty of Cape Town and its surrounding area, including Lion’s Head, Table Mountain, Cape Point, Hout Bay, Simon’s Town, and Seal Island. Footage includes great white sharks from above at Seal Island, an aggregation of spotted gully sharks / sharptooth houndshark (Triakis megalopterus) in the surf near Cape Point ...

A shark aggregation in the surf near Cape Point in Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, South Africa. Shot by DJI Global Phantom 2, Zenmuse H3-3D gimbal and GoPro HERO3+ Black. The real Shark Week is seeing sharks in the wild! There is a cape fur seal in the second picture (it’s in the lower-right ...

We hiked up Lion’s Head in Cape Town, South Africa, for sunrise, and arrived at the top for an absolutely-beautiful morning. Clouds rolled over Table Mountain just across the valley (locals call clouds like this the “table cloth”), and a slight haze made for warm, dramatic morning light. I popped a DJI Phantom 2 w/Zenmuse ...

Morning flight with a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter from rib at Duiker Island near Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, with Animal Ocean Snorkeling and some friends. It was a beautiful morning—the first clear skies in days—but the wind started to pick up and was blowing around 15 knots by mid-afternoon.

A secluded inlet near Duiker Island outside of Hout Bay Harbour, Western Cape, South Africa, houses three poacher rowboats sitting on a bed of thousands of illegally-harvested abalone shells. Aerial perspectives like this one (shot with DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter) show the power that low-cost drones can give to conservation organizations.