The walkways are narrow, making it difficult to navigate while carrying equipment. Once set up, we connected the cameras to our network which allowed us to remotely control and fire them.

Besides deer, his remote cameras have photographed bears, moose, bobcat, wolves and other critters. Bill Marchel is another professional photographer and diehard deer hunter who uses trail cameras.

It let him build the remote in half the size of the official Sony device. With limited buttons on board, though, he relies on the IMU to control many advanced features with motion gestures.

David J. Phillip has been based in Houston and has worked for The Associated Press for 32 years. This was his 30th Super Bowl for the AP. After the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl, the team ...