802drone: An FAA-Licensed Eye in the Sky Over Southern Vermont

There's a moment in every Vermont home sale when the photographs decide everything. A farmhouse with ten acres rolling down to a trout stream, a timber-frame with a brand-new standing-seam roof, a camp on a private pond — from the ground, a camera can only hint at the setting. From two hundred feet up, the setting sells itself. That is the view 802drone brings to southern Vermont: professional aerial photography and video, flown by a licensed pilot who lives right here in Cavendish. 802drone is the drone-services brand of Allen Clark of Cavendish — an FAA-licensed UAS Part 107 remote pilot since 2019 and a professional photographer since 2005. If the name rings a bell, it should: Allen and his wife Daniela run PhotoBoat.com, the marine and drone photography outfit, and his land-based work in real estate and portraits goes out under the Photos by Clark name — a name his grandfather carried as a successful wedding photographer in Northern California. Photography, in other words, runs three generations deep. The operation is based in Cavendish, Vermont — between Rutland and Springfield, minutes off Interstate 91 — and serves clients throughout Vermont and Southwest New Hampshire. That home base matters: when a realtor in Ludlow needs aerials before the weekend open house, or a homeowner in Claremont wants storm damage documented for an insurance claim, the pilot is twenty minutes away, not two states away. Real estate photography and video is the core of the business. 802drone shoots the aerials that make a listing's setting legible in a single frame: acreage, outbuildings, road frontage, the lay of the land, the distance to the village or the ski slopes. In the Okemo Valley, where second homes and land parcels are the market and the surroundings are half the value proposition, a drone is not a luxury anymore. It is the difference between a listing that scrolls past and one that stops the scroll. Beyond listings, 802drone photographs private homes and properties as a record and a keepsake. Estate documentation, family compounds, camps and second homes — an aerial survey captures a property in its prime and proves practical for years: planning an addition, marking boundaries, orienting contractors, or simply remembering exactly how the old place looked before the kids grew up and the maple out front got too big. Then there is the inspection work, where a drone earns its keep in safety as much as imagery. Insurance inspections — roof condition after a windstorm, chimney and flashing checks, siding and gutter overviews — can be documented thoroughly without anyone setting foot on a ladder. The photographs are sharp, date-stamped evidence: exactly what an adjuster wants to see, captured without the risk or the scheduling headache of a roof visit. Pre-construction site inspections round out the listed services. Documenting a site before the excavators arrive creates a baseline; returning to the same vantage point as work progresses gives builders, buyers, and lenders a shared visual record of what happened and when. Disputes about what was there before the foundation went in get a lot shorter when the answer is hanging on the wall in 20 megapixels. The site's services list ends with "and more," and that is doing real work. Fall foliage surveys for leaf-peepers planning the perfect weekend. Storm aftermath documentation. Land a buyer wants to walk before driving three hours to see it. If the job benefits from the air, it is worth a phone call — the worst answer is a polite "that's outside what I do," and the best is a set of images nobody else could have captured. There's a natural crossover with Allen's other brand, too. PhotoBoat.com covers marine photography — boats, waterfront, shoreline — and plenty of Vermont properties meet the water: Lake Rescue, Echo Lake, the Connecticut River, private ponds. A pilot who photographs boats for a living understands waterfront the way a land-only shooter doesn't, and waterfront listings are where aerials pay for themselves fastest. Vermont's calendar gives the drone year-round work. Spring mud season, when half the back roads in Windsor County are impassable and ground access to a property is a gamble, a drone doesn't care about the road. Winter brings snow-load roof documentation and the stark, beautiful geometry of a farm in January. Summer is listing season; fall is foliage and the busiest six weeks of the year. The aircraft flies in every season — the only real constraint is the same one that's always governed Vermont: the weather. The license matters more than most people realize. Part 107 certification means the pilot has passed the FAA's aeronautical knowledge exam and operates under federal commercial rules — airspace authorizations, weather minimums, altitude limits. Plenty of hobbyists own drones; far fewer can legally fly them for hire, and an agent or insurer publishing unlicensed aerials is taking on liability they probably haven't priced. When you book 802drone, the flight is legal and the paperwork is in order. A drone is a tripod that flies, but the eye behind it still decides the shot — light, angle, timing, what to leave out of the frame. Twenty years of professional photography, from the family's wedding-photography tradition to boats running on open water, translates directly into aerials with composition instead of mere altitude. Anybody can climb to 200 feet and press the shutter; not everybody comes home with the photograph. Booking starts with a conversation. Call (802) 342-5956 or request a quote and pricing through the form at 802drone.com — every project begins with what you need to see from the air, when you need it, and what the airspace over the property allows. Because the pilot is local, site visits, scheduling, and reschedules around Vermont weather stay simple. We're featuring 802drone because it is exactly the kind of business Green Mountain Guide exists to spotlight: a properly licensed local specialist, doing work that makes Vermont properties look their best and keeps everybody safely on the ground. If you've got a listing, a roof, a build site, or just a beautiful piece of Vermont you want to remember from above — this is your pilot. Welcome to the featured wall, 802drone.