Drones are doing amazing tasks like delivering lab samples, delivering packages, defibrillators, but the most popular one remains photography. A Paris-based Instagram-like photo sharing website Dronestagram has seen the best photos captured by drones. The website arranges contests in many categories to highlight the best images taken by both amateurs and professional photographers who have been experimenting with drones around the world.
National Geographic photo editors have selected the best pictures of 2017 in different categories, from thousands of submissions and these go along with the descriptions by the photographers themselves:
The categories include Nature, People, Urban, and the newest category is Creativity.
Provence, summer trim.
I went to Valensole hoping to get an original picture rather than the classic view with the sunset in the background.—Jerome Courtial, Provence, France
Infinite Road to Transylvania
This is the image of Cheia DN1A road that takes you to Transylvania, here in Romania.…the legend says, this is the view that Count Dracula himself saw on his nocturnal flight.—Calin Stan, Transylvania, Romania
Ice formation
This photo was realized during winter in East Greenland, which is one of the most remote places on earth. It was really hard to get there during that period because of the weather conditions and the drone was not guaranteed to work in -20° weather.—Florian Ledoux, Greenland
Urban Jungle
This picture were shot at sunset time in Dubai at 6pm. [It] captures an area which was a literally a desert 10 years ago and is now a concrete jungle with the highest buildings in Dubai.—Bachir Moukarzel, United Arab Emirates
Mercury Tower
I saw industrial climbers. I liked the way their work looked from that perspective: they seemed to wash the city itself, not just the building’s windows.—Alexey Goncharov, Moscow, Russia
Peace
My sister gave me a drone as a Christmas gift and I started using it almost everyday. I was in Madrid looking for a nice place…when I saw my picture it was really cool and symmetrical.—Luis Saguar Domingo, Madrid, Spain
End of the Line
I noticed an empty tennis court that just stood out like a treasured story in a book of empty words.—Martin, Sanchez, US
Water Lilies in Vietnam
La Vijanera, Spain
La Vijanera is a winter carnival that takes place in the town of Silió, in Cantabria, Spain, the first Sunday of each year. This party consists on a group of hunters who want to capture a bear.—Javier Bustamante, Cantabria, Spain
Next Level
This picture was captured on a Normandy beach with my girlfriend, Manon. We’re looking forward to a happy event (a baby) and were looking for a fun, original and unusual way to announce it to our loved ones, family and friends.—Thibault Beguet, Brittany, France
Two Moo
It was a cold early morning in South Africa on a farm near Stellenbosch. Two cows drinking from a nearby dam caught my eye when I saw their long shadows. I launched my drone to capture the scene in a way impossible with any other type of camera.—Luke Bell, Cape Town, South Africa
Ugo Sur la plage
As I watched my children playing on the beach and drawing in the sand I had the idea of ??using the sand as a large sheet of paper.—Romain Gaillard, Brittany, France
Source: Dronestagram