These two nearly identical star trail photos by New York City street photographer Eran Bendheim, shot one year apart, show something that's really difficult to capture visually: the impact of COVID-19 on air traffic.
On July 2nd, 2017, Gatwick Airport in the UK was forced to suspend its runways for a total of 14 minutes because a drone was flown in restricted airspace. This 2-minute visualization released by NATS shows the chaos that ensued.
A new FAA report is confirming what we imagine many responsible camera drone enthusiasts fear: the number of idiotic drone pilots is on the rise, and they're threatening to ruin it for everyone or, far worse, cause a full-scale air disaster.
In the majority of time-lapses, airplanes wind up being an unintended byproduct. Sometimes they get downright distracting, like in this time-lapse where an airplane in a holding pattern was thought to maybe be a UFO.
But photographer Milton Tan doesn't find them distracting, he finds them fascinating. So much so that he's created an entire time-lapse that focuses on the identified flying objects exclusively.