Flying the Flag: Why Vancouver Island Drones Represents Who We Really Are
When I first started flying, the plan was simple: capture the places I love around the Westshore and Greater Victoria. Early mornings at the Lagoon. Slow passes over Willows or Royal Bay. Quiet moments you only get when the sun is just starting to lift over the water. That was the whole point — and honestly, it still is.
Over time, I found myself shooting more than just the neighbourhoods close to home. Sunrise over Cadboro Bay. Calm mornings in Metchosin. The coastline shifting from gold to blue depending on where you stand. It all started to feel like pieces of a larger story — a story about Vancouver Island itself.
That’s why the name Vancouver Island Drones fits better than anything else I could put on a business card. It’s not a rebrand or a marketing move. It’s simply calling the project what it already is: a small, Westshore-based aerial perspective on the Island we live on, explore, and care about.
What this shift really means
It’s not about packages or verticals or trying to pretend we’re an agency. It’s about focusing on the things that matter:
Sunrise flights around Victoria and the Westshore.
The light that makes this place feel like nowhere else.
Clean, honest aerial visuals.
No hype, no production noise — just the coastline, the trees, the harbours, and the communities built around them.
Local stories.
Small businesses, familiar landmarks, places people grew up around or pass by every day without thinking twice.
A simple, conversation-first approach.
No hard sell. No complicated menu of services. Just:
“What do you need, and when’s the light going to be best?”
The mission is the same — the perspective is wider now
Whether it’s a quiet sunrise at Willows Beach, an early morning over Metchosin, or a drone flight to help a local business show their space clearly, the goal hasn’t changed:
Capture Vancouver Island the way it deserves to be seen — from above, in its best light, without pretending to be something else.
So when you see the name Vancouver Island Drones on a video, a blog post, or a sunrise shot, it’s simply a reminder of what this whole project is built around: the Island we call home at vancouverislanddrones.ca (site migration coming soon).
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