Game of Drones: How This Husband and Wife Team Took Photography to New Heights
Elevated Element combines unmanned technology and photography, and sales are soaring.

By Jodi Helmer •
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Entrepreneurs: Husband-and-wife team Terry and Belinda Kilby traded careers as a software developer and art teacher, respectively, to launch their Owings Mills, Md.-based drone business, Elevated Element, in 2012.
"Aha" moment: Terry, a self-described tinkerer, first retrofitted a remote-control helicopter with a digital camera in 2010. Although the aerial photos were grainy, Belinda recognized the potential for capturing images from vantage points that were once impossible.
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