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December 30, 2016 7:32 AM

TIME Magazine selects the Best Drone Photos of 2016. (Deslided version)
posted by capricorn (12 comments total)

So the other day I'm watching a Rifftrax audio track they recorded five years ago, and they make a joke about the filmmaker wanting to do a gorgeous helicopter tracking shot like the start of "The Shining" and then balking at the cost and deciding to shoot it inside the car instead.

What a difference five years makes in photography and film-making.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:08 AM on December 30, 2016 [2 favorites]

Wow, I really enjoyed this.
posted by FirstMateKate at 8:14 AM on December 30, 2016

Neat photos, but I just wanted to thank you for the Deslider link. Nicely done!
posted by Samizdata at 8:25 AM on December 30, 2016 [7 favorites]

Neat photos! For a split second, the Hong Kong one had me clicking and dragging to see if I could move around in the image.
posted by carter at 9:00 AM on December 30, 2016

check out caravan of camels at sunset.
posted by mono blanco at 9:01 AM on December 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

check out caravan of camels at sunset

looking at that photo again, I just realized how long those shadows are!
holey moley!
posted by bitteroldman at 9:26 AM on December 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

In case anyone else was wondering, the crop being harvested in Valensole is lavender (a video).
posted by exogenous at 10:43 AM on December 30, 2016

As I thought by the colour!

I also thought, hey there's another one from Colombia. And another one from Romania! Until...

A winding road in Bogata Forest, Romania.

Now you're screwing with me.
posted by adept256 at 11:04 AM on December 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

These are my all time favorite drone photos, taken years ago, before governments banned drone flights over major landmarks.

Absolute best ones - Sagrada Familia, St Paul's Cathedral, Taj Mahal. So many gems.
posted by xdvesper at 10:22 PM on December 30, 2016 [3 favorites]

That deslide site was worth the price of admission alone!
posted by lagomorphius at 7:08 AM on December 31, 2016

xdvesper, the little rant that develops in the captions is hilarious:

26. Taj Mahal as the day's first tourists trickle through the gates. Amazing to be seeing an angle that had almost certainly never before been seen - not in all the centuries this thing had stood there.

27. But, the police here had a drone ban in place even way back in the early days. I got warned, then tried to sneak a couple more pictures the next day. Word to the wise - the cops here are extremely diligent.

28. Two wrestlers practising the ancient Indian sport of Kushti. This was right next to the Taj Mahal & a minute or two after the picture was taken, two cops heard the noise & marched over. I was detained by a couple of young officers until a big bearish senior policeman was dropped off by motorbike. He properly yelled at me from behind a walrus moustache & I skulked out of town the next day.

29. Tbilisi, Georgia, where the people are friendly, the food is kickass and the policemen actually do their jobs.

posted by Harvey Kilobit at 7:14 PM on December 31, 2016

Well, I looked at all of these, and they are pretty I guess, but there was not a single photograph of a drone in any of them.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 11:21 AM on January 1, 2017