Thank you for the kind words. I’m delighted when I get show off the natural splendor of our region. As to your suggestion about using local music (truly local, as in local artists), I am open to that, provided the musical selection has little to no sung lyrics and the artists are willing to give me the right to use their work for video shorts like those on this channel.

Bigotry for any person that’s displayed because of another’s immutable characteristics should not be tolerated.

Your incorrect spelling of common words and total lack of punctuation makes your supposition concerning Hillsville appear an intellectually unsound one. That’s not to say your comment isn’t how you genuinely feel about the small town, only that the confidence readers place in your opinion being a worthwhile one to consider will be low due to it being poorly written.

You do realize that’s where Willies is located where you get the best burger ever right

@@LUXaerialfilms I'm a Carroll Native currently Attending Carroll County High, this guy(judging by his profile and lack of spelling) is most likey a student like my self, except he does not see the beauty and great history in this amazing town. sadly a lot of young people think of Hillsville as nothing more than the place they go to school.

@@BlueDino07 Thank you for your comment. In fairness, I didn’t think of Hillsville in a much different light than you described, as “Hillsville, just a place to go to school,” and definitely not how is feel or think about the town and surrounding county now. Time changes all things, not least of all, us. With that in mind, maybe my rebuke of the original poster’s comment was too harsh, and I too rash to level my stinging quip. If so, I apologize to him. And, I thank you for your insight.

Thank you very much, Kirk.

Thank you, Prillanator. The Dreamcatcher graphic was created in Procreate and the video editing in it’s entirety with Luma Fusion, both iPad apps.

LUX is a Carroll County native, too. It’s a pleasure, MrEvilSurpent!

@@LUXaerialfilms names Crocker lived down in Bobbitt hollow in lambsburg in the army now out in Hawaii missing home

Let me know if you still live in the area interested in hiring you to make a video of the lambsburg area

@@MrEvilsurpentI’m Adam, and in stunned disbelief I tell you, I am from Lambsburg, too! I was born and raised in the sleepy little hamlet but spent much of my adult life living abroad - not too different from yourself, I’d imagine. I have moved back now so I could be close to my folks after such a long time away. As far as videos of the community goes, I suggest you watch videos I produced early on, on this channel. Especially see the series called “The Week That Was” (TWTW) which was nearly entirely shot locally.

@@LUXaerialfilms I definitely will check those videos out it's such a rare thing to run into someone from the burg especially on KZbin of all places. Hope you enjoy being back home and if you ever want too make a chunk of change holler at me and I'll pay you for a pure lambsburg video. Your cinematography is top notch. I miss the beauty and the family. Hope to make it back home one day myself.

Thanks for your feedback. I agree with you, the audio needs more work. Do you know if there is a way to add new audio to a previously uploaded and published video on KZbin?

@@LUXaerialfilms FYI. Re edit, Re publish

Thanks John! It was my pleasure to shoot and edit this little video. Galax is a fine place.

Thanks for sharing your personal experiences of stopping by Hillsville. It sure is a peculiar, in the best kind of way, place. All the best!

Thank you for your encouragement, Fly Eze. It means a lot to me that my work blesses the hearts of those who view it. Merry Christmas!

Ryan Penrod, a long time indeed! We’re very happy and hoping you’re out, about and singing, “Free at last! Free at last! Praise God, free at last!”

Thank you, Tracie. We’d love to return in Oct for the event! If you happen to know an official Bridge Day organizer, please contact us at our email address with the information. LUX has the required FAA credentials for commercial drone use in the US, but there will likely be local temporary restrictions on the day in question. As such, local officials will likely need to be contacted for special permission prior to flight. As to the location, the maps we’ve seen lists the Gorge Bridge as part of the Summerville area, but if Summerville is a deal larger than Fayetteville and close by, then it’s possibly listed it as such for easier location referencing. Whatever the case, we’ll make sure such location information is correct in the future. Thank you for you comment and for watching. Please share and subscribe, we need the support. Stay well.

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Thank you very much, Drone Taiwan!

Thanks, Petr! I hope all is well, friend.

Very kind of you to say. I hope things are going well for you in your neck of the woods, sir.

It's always a pleasure to hear from you, my friend. I hope life in near-tropics is treating you well. And rest assured, we'll be planning our trip to visit before too much longer. Stay well!

Clouds* you're* great* hear* (Not trying to be rude, just trying to help you out as I assume English isn't your first language. Take care. :-) )

Thanks, Redwood Drones. My work is a labor of love, and one still in need of much improvement, but I do appreciate your comment!

Thanks, Petr. That's kind of you to say, sir. While I typically write any scripting or narration used in my work, this one happens to be a poem written by Annie Mathieson. The wordy rhythm is perfect, colorful and hypnotic - and for insomniacs, like myself, it can be particularly effective at inducing sleep healthily.

Thank you very much. You may use it for your video provided a few conditions are met: an in-video credit somewhere in your video, my channel link in the description of your post, and no further color grading is done. Change the music if you wish, no worries there. If you should choose to use it, please let me know by replying here with the link to your video. Thanks!

Southern Gentlemen, me from Galax? Nah, but it is nearby, about 20 miles away. The small spit of earth I'm from, it's unknown to anyone outside of the few people who live here and adjoining communities. This region is a nice place, despite its socioeconomic issues.

@@LUXaerialfilms I'm from Galax, (born and raised, been here my whole life.) Unless a person is a fan of bluegrass and/or old time music they have no idea where Galax is.

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Thanks, Roy! I do hope you’re well my friend. You’re continued encouragement has helped me more than you know, sir. I’m enjoying your recent posts, also, very much so.

As to the fog, typically just after sunrise, allowing time for the dew to begin to vaporize, has provided me the best results.

Thank you so much, Seafox!

Hello from your relative in Roxboro, NC. I have been there twice in years past but never when it was open. I would like to tour it if they have finished the renovation on it. Would you please let me know when it is open and I would also like to meet and talk to you.

Thanks for your interest! “Tropical rainforests” is a broad term that’s used to describe any number of geographical regions which fall under specific conditions. I stated that the Amazon (a particular rainforest) doesn’t boast the widest diversity of tree species, because it doesn’t. That isn’t meant to minimize anyone’s notion of the Amazon (because I love the Amazon myself and have been there several times, mostly in the region surrounding Iquitos, Peru), but instead my intention was to cause viewers to think by offering a little known, but true, fact about the Blue Ridge Mountains region of the US - that it is indeed the most arboristically diverse region on the planet. Even if the number of individual trees in a particular region was the metric, the Amazon still wouldn’t have 1st ranking, but it would likely go to the tundras of the northern hemisphere. Where the Amazon would rank #1 is in the sheer amount of biomass of living creatures - there it wins, hands down.

Dave, thanks a lot! My bulldog is quite a crowd-pleaser, 😂 I’ve grateful for the kind words of encouragement. I look forward to connecting more. All the best, Adam.

Sparkaroundtown Thanks! The lighting that day helped a lot also. The house also appears in my video titled Fertile Fields of Fancy Gap, where it’s featured in a wild transitional moment in the film. I do need to get back over to the location for another shoot soon.

Thank you, Sparkaroundtown for the kind words and for subscribing also. All the ground scenes were shot using a LUMIX GH5 in combination with a Ronin SC. Some of the midday scenes required a polarizing filter, I use variable one made by Tiffen. The arial footage was captured using a Mavic 2 Pro. Editing, I used the Neat Video plugin within Final Cut Pro on a 5k iMac to reduce a noisy scene or two, but the greater amount of editing and color grading happened in LumaFusion on an iPad Pro. Also, the area scenes were shot using DJI’s d-log-m format and graded using LUTs created by SpectrumGrades.com.