The island near Shanghai is the home to the small abandoned fishing village of Houtouwan. Since the 1990s no one has lived here, forced to find work elsewhere.
This photo series and drone footage from Shanghai-based photographer and videographer Joe Nafis and photographer Dave Tacon give us a glimpse of what few people ever see.
It sounds like something from a meme generator, but photographer Calder Wilson was recently experimenting with fireworks hooked to a drone that he flew around while capturing it in long exposure.
Photographer Scott Sporleder and founder of travel site Matador Network, Ross Borden, have captured a varied and gorgeous landscapes, ruins and monuments of Jordan with an aerial done.
Cloud 9 is a floating bar in Fiji is the middle of the ocean near the Malolo Barrier Reef, about 40-50 minutes away from the main island. A bar and Italian wood fired pizza make Cloud 9 a uniquely glorious way to chill out in the South Pacific.
Stockholm-based filmmaker Kalle Ljung shot this with a GoPro camera stuck on a DJI Phantom 2 drone.
This movie was shot during our 20 days trip to Antarctica in December 2014 to January 2015. We started from Ushuaia in Argentina and went to Port Williams in Chile, rounded Cape Horn and crossed the Drake Passage towards the Melchior Islands in Antarctica. We spent 16 days in the Antarctic and got to experience the most amazing scenery and wildlife before we returned back to Ushuaia.
ADAM WOODWORTH, a hardware engineer at Google has a detailed step-by-step of his mod of a quadrotor to become an Imperial Speeder with a first-person camera to boot. Check out the photos.
On a foggy day, a drone was able to catch this stunning footage of the Dom Tower of Utrecht, for the Dutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie.
We're back with weekly wrap-up videos, in a different format from most of the 5 things TV. Hope you like it.
With a DJI Phantom 2 drone, Peter Cox, a landscape photographer, recently visited Svalbard in the Greenland Sea
Some daytime scenes from around the playa at Burning Man 2013. Be sure to watch in HD at full screen for maximum awesomeness!
Drones, drones, drones...
A quick 5 minute tour of burning man.
This summer microdrones' md4-1000 achieved something no other quadcopter had previously done. The unmanned aerial system, which was equipped with the latest GPS technology from u-blox and an HD camera from Sony, conquered the Alps by crossing the Saint-Gotthard Pass connecting Switzerland and Italy.
"Microdone' sounds ominous. These sights are gorgeous. Such is my ambivalence to technology.
The band Phoenix performs their song 'Entertainment' for La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows. This is the second series of Take Away Shows we're doing with Phoenix. This one has been filmed at dawn in the empty gardens of Le Chateau de Versailles. It was filmed with a drone, in one continuous shot, flying around the band. All music was recorded live. Directed by Colin Solal Cardo Produced by Chryde for la Blogothèque Sound Director : François Clos Sound, mix and mastering by François Clos Henri D'Armancourt Etienne Pozzo JB Aubonnet Production manager : Anousonne Savanchomkeo Thanks to : Thomas, Deck, Christian, Branco, Laurence, Chris, Maureen, Pascal, Sophie, Jeanne, Thomas Jacquet and everybody in Phoenix team The one-take was shot with a GoPro3 Black Edition. http://www.blogotheque.net http://www.wearephoenix.com http://www.chateauversailles.fr/
Shot in one continuous drone shot, and music recorded live, this Concert A Emporter from La Blogoteque is one of my favorites, and certainly being of Phoenix doesn't hurt none, either.
