One of the cool things about working for yourself is that you can not go to work if you don’t want to. The negative side effect is that if you don’t go to work, usually you don’t earn anything either. I planned to shoot the St. Petersburg pier tomorrow A.M. but I lost my drone again In the Manatee River. I say again because in May I lost another drone in the that River the same way. The drone I lost before was a DJI Mavic mini that I got on Black Friday 2021 for $234.00 shipped from EBay. The drone that I just lost was a DJI mini 2 that I got used from Amazon for like $350.00. I would rather not lose anything but drone photography has a pretty large learning curve. Losing a drone sucks, but those plastic propellers will break skin no problem. I would rather lose a drone in the water without hurting anyone or anything than to lose a drone AND hurt or potentially kill someone. No one ever thinks about the damage a drone flown by an amateur can do. Drones no matter which one can be a very bad thing. Anyone can get a license to fly a drone, anyone can purchase one and they are usually purchased by amateur, they seem pretty cool. The problem mostly happens when something goes wrong usually the pilot freaks out and forgets which control does what. If that pilot is very lucky, they will get their drone back in one piece. I like to practice flying over an unoccupied golf course but since I do not have access to a golf course close by where I live, I practice flying over the Manatee River instead.