People often think they see recognizable things in clouds, a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia. When photographer Peter Adams-Shawn began shooting aerial photos with a camera drone on his local beach, he soon discovered that he would often see things magically appear and disappear in waves breaking on beaches.
Adams-Shawn’s new ongoing project, titled “From the […]. petapixel.com
A quiet outing with his dogs and drone turned into a rescue mission for one life-saving photographer.
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petapixel.com »2024-03-20 23:38
A drone photographer may have captured the first-ever footage of a newborn great white shark off the coast of Southern California. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-01-30 14:05
Michigan Supreme Court has heard a remarkable case in which a man has complained that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated after the township he lives in hired a drone photographer to spy on his property. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-10-20 19:05
There is perhaps no other place in the world that is like the Icelandic Highlands: It is remote, hostile, and lonely.
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petapixel.com »2023-10-06 18:21
A drone photographer discovered an elaborate shack made out of driftwood perched on a rocky cliff above the Pacific Ocean in California that is believed to be inhabited by a hermit. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-09-19 16:02
A drone photographer captured footage of a tiger shark swimming next to a father and his two young children -- who had no idea that the dangerous creature was lurking close by. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-12-28 21:42
Photographer Dimitar Karanikolov has captured a series of aerial portraits from a wide variety of locations around the world. His photos stand out thanks to his use of a human element which add a sense of scale. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-01-13 19:47
Amateur drone pilot and photographer Matt Woods was sitting on his balcony in Bondi Beach, Australia and decided to send out his Mavic 2 Zoom to perhaps capture an ocean vista, but instead found a spearfisherman grappling with what appeared to be an aggressive mako shark. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Woods says […] petapixel.com »
2021-07-22 22:20
While filming a documentary about climate change on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State I captured a storm from the air using my DJI Phantom 4 Quadcopter. My assistant and I heard the waves pounding and so we climbed to the top of a cliff. boredpanda.com »
2018-06-11 22:52
An Arizona aerial photographer has been arrested for flying a drone over a forest fire in Goodwin, Arizona. His actions caused 14 firefighting aircraft and crews to be grounded. The Arizona Republic reports that the grounding of the planes meant ground units had to temporarily abandon their firefighting efforts as they no longer had air support, letting […] petapixel.com »
2017-07-03 20:00
Want to place an off-camera flash where stands and assistants can’t go? Try mounting it to a drone. That’s what Chinese photographer Fuyan Liu does to light difficult portraits in extreme situations. petapixel.com »
2017-06-13 21:24
Award-winning drone photographer Brad Walls is back with another beautifully symmetrical photo series that recasts a familiar subject into an aerial perspective. His latest series invites the viewer to experience the beauty of ballet from above.
Sydney based aerial photographer Brad Walls recently ventured into the world of sports photography, to see if he could capture a unique perspective on sports like Gymnastics, Tennis, Figure Skating, and Synchronized swimming.
Sydney based aerial photographer Brad Walls recently ventured into the world of sports photography, to see if he could capture a unique perspective on sports like Gymnastics, Tennis, Figure Skating, and Synchronized swimming.
There are a couple of different ways to use drones for light-painting. Some people will attach LumeCubes to their drone and paint an environment with them or will fly a drone around the sky or an object and have the drones lights creating images in the sky. However, there is another way to use them […]
Life Cycles is a new project by photographer Mike Kelley, who documented the creation, use, and destruction of airplanes through top-down photos captured from the sky. “The series reverses our usual perception of aviation and instead of photographing airplanes from the sky, the airplanes are on the ground, photographed from the air,” Kelley tells PetaPixel. […]
Check out this creative “2D” video of an urban parkour-style runner, shot top-down using a drone. It’s like old video game views, recreated in real life. The 3.5-minute project was created over in Bulgaria by athlete and stunt artist Ilko Iliev and photographer Marin Kafedjiiski.