Drone photographer Bjorn Steinbekk recently flew a camera drone directly into the active crater of a volcano. The drone managed to capture this remarkable ultra-close-up footage that shows it melting above spewing lava before it finally succumbed to the intense heat.
Steinbekk is based in Reykjavik, Iceland, and got into professional drone photography and videography […]. petapixel.com
Here’s one of the most epic drone saves you’ll ever see. A man named Dave Svorking was flying his camera drone over a lake when the battery died mid-flight, causing the drone to go into an uncontrolled descent straight toward the water. petapixel.com »
2018-06-05 16:35
$(document). ready(function() { SampleGalleryV2({"containerId":"embeddedSampleGallery_5360811256","galleryId":"5360811256","isEmbeddedWidget":true,"selectedImageIndex":0,"isMobile":false}) }); PITTA, a modular ball-shaped 13MP camera that transforms into a drone, is currently blasting its way through a campaign on Kickstarter. dpreview.com »
2018-01-03 20:09
Following its first foray into hardware last year, Snap Inc. now appears to be making moves into the drone industry, having just acquired Crtl Me Robotics, and LA-based drone company. Industry analysts believe that the company intends to develop its own drone, which may compete directly with the recently-announced DJI Spark, and will be its second hardware offering. digitalrev.com »
2017-05-28 03:00
This is exactly why DJI is forcing users to “activate” their drones, or suffer the consequences. At a recent baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks, an illegal drone slammed into the stands, only just missing a few faultless fans. petapixel.com »
2017-05-22 18:44
In a landmark case for aerial photography health and safety, a Seattle drone pilot was found guilty of reckless endangerment on Friday. The man was sentenced to 30 days in jail as well as a US$500 fine. digitalrev.com »
2017-02-28 03:00
Casey Neistat has once again captured the internet’s attention in an epic holiday trip to Lapland that sees him literally being flung around by a giant custom drone! The shoot lasted four days and required multiple cameras and crew to capture Neistat’s flightpath during the few hours of daylight they had available. digitalrev.com »
2016-12-21 03:00
A photographer waited three years to capture these epic shots of the northern lights above an erupting volcano.
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A 31-year-old woman holidaying in Indonesia has died after falling 250 feet into an active volcano.
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Shocking drone footage shows a huge crack literally splitting apart an Icelandic town, as the country warns of a potential major volcanic eruption. [Read More]
Researchers from the University of Sheffield in England have developed a relatively affordable sulfur dioxide (SO2) camera that may help predict volcanoes, providing essential warnings to nearby communities and facilitating earlier evacuation and preparation. [Read More]
A team of National Geographic explorers led by Renan Ozturk and Emma Nicholson was able to reach the summit crater of Mount Michel -- a remote stratovolcano -- and confirm the existence of one of nature’s rarest phenomenons: a lava lake. [Read More]
These photos show newly discovered deep-sea creatures living in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean close to underwater volcanos. [Read More]
During his recent trip to Iceland, landscape and adventure photographer Michael Shainblum managed to check a decade-old subject off of his photography bucket list by capturing some incredible images of lava during a volcanic eruption in Fagradalsfjall. [Read More]