Mark Hamilton - 107 Certified Commercial Drone Pilot

Professional photographer / FAA licensed commercial drone pilot

Photography has been a lifelong passion for me. I can't recall a time when I didn't have a camera of some sort. I was a photographer long before I began utilizing drones for aerial photography.

I started flying fixed wing RC aircraft back in 2008. I was formally trained by the president of an AMA flight club known as the Desert Hawks in Lake Havasu City Arizona, and was officially awarded my solo flight certificate in 2009. You can watch a short video of the event below.

My interest and ambition for pursuing RC aircraft was always aerial photography. Even back in the early days of flying remote controlled aircraft, I used velcro to attach a go pro camera to my fixed wing RC aircraft in an attempt to utilize aerial photography. But without a 3 axis gimbal or a screen to monitor what the camera was actually seeing, the resulting footage was hit or miss and very unstable so I gave up on my aspiration to become an aerial photographer in 2010.

That is until public quad copters (aka drones) came along. Technology had finally caught up with my aspirations, and in 2018 I purchased my first drone. The rest as they say, is history.

The point is, I'm not just some guy who purchased a drone with a camera on it and hung a shingle calling himself a photographer. I've had a life long passion for photography and was a professional photographer long before I purchased my first drone (I currently own 4), and I was already an accomplished RC pilot as well.

The bottom line is I can provide you with safe, licensed, insured, responsible and professional Arizona aerial photography and videography services of all kinds, customized particularly to you and your particular story.

I'm also constantly educating myself and improving my skills.