Drones are not nearly as exciting nor popular as they were just a few short years ago as a combination of laws and incremental updates has made the flying them feel like too much effort for not enough payoff.
Award-winning Australian aerial photographer Brad Walls has continued collaborating with the New York City ballet to capture beautiful, artistic images of a professional dancer on the famous and picturesque Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
DJI's new Air 3 drone sports both a wide-angle and 3x telephoto camera to capture 48-megapixel photos and up to 4K at 100p video. It also can stay in the air for up to 46 minutes in a body that weighs just 720 grams.
After many years of growth, drone technology feels like it has reached a plateau. Even inexpensive drones now have robust collision-avoidance sensors, long battery life, good image quality, and easy-to-use software. So where does the Mavic 3 Pro3 fit in?
A customer claims that he was dropped by his longtime home insurance company -- based on photos taken by a "drone" over his property.
Sky Elements Drone Shows set a Guinness World Record for its Fourth of July drone show in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Sky Elements Drone Shows produced 40 shows during the extended holiday weekend using more than LED-equipped 10,000 drones, including 1,002 just at the show in Texas.
The Siena Awards has revealed the winners of its Drone Photo Awards 2023. Israeli photographer Or Adar won this year's edition of the prestigious drone photography contest.
Archaeologists flying drone cameras discovered 7,000-year-old prehistorical rock paintings in remote caves in Spain in a pioneering study.
The DJI Inspire 3 is a drone that I had actually given up hope on ever seeing. The Inspire 2 was released way back in 2016 (the hot camera that year was the Nikon D500, to give you some perspective), and progress with UAVs has been incredibly rapid since then.
Just after discontinuing the Matrice 200 series, DJI has replaced it with the new Matrice 350 RTK drone, a commercial aerial system with multiple camera options and up to 55-minute flight times.
Photographer Jason De Freitas has combined his passions for flight and film by mounting a 1960s Super 8 motion picture camera onto a modern first-person view (FPV) drone, and the resulting footage (seen in the 3-minute video above) is magical.
French visual artist Jadikan has long been passionate about photography. Since 2005, he has integrated light painting into his photography, and the technique is heavily utilized throughout Jadikan's impressive portfolio.
Following DJI's announcement of the professional Inspire 3 drone, the leader in civilian drones has announced the DJI Mavic 3 Pro, a flagship drone with the world's first triple camera system.
QYSEA has announced the Fifish V-Evo underwater drone. Claimed to be the first all-in-one system to feature a 4K 60 FPS camera with 360-degree omnidirectional movement, the V-Evo can navigate below the waves for up to four hours.
Award-winning fine art photographer Brad Walls collaborated with the English National Ballet for a unique photography project showcasing professional ballet dancers from the air.
Sony has announced three new accessories for the Sony AirPeak drone: a lighter gimbal, a Real Time Kinematic (RTK) kit that improves its navigation and flight precision, and a new enhanced better for longer flight times.
DJI has announced the Inspire 3, a high-end, all-in-one cinema drone that features a 161-degree ultra-wide night-vision first-person-view (FPV) camera and a main camera equipped with a full-frame sensor that can shoot 8K at 75 frames per second in Apple ProRes RAW.
DJI recently released updated firmware for its DJI Mini 3 Pro drone. The new firmware, v01.00.0500, adds two new features, one offering more than meets the eye, including additional control over flight speed.
DJI appears to be gearing up to announce the third iteration of the Inspire drone platform. One of the most popular professional drones on the market, DJI hasn't refreshed the line in nearly seven years.
DJI is introducing two new ways to pilot the DJI Avata drone: the DJI Goggles Integra and DJI RC Motion 2.
A family is suing Netflix for using images of their house that were allegedly taken by a drone in an advertisement for a reality television show.
A photographer has captured the staggering power of the Banzai Pipeline. Located on the north shore of O'ahu, Hawaii, it's famous for its huge waves.
Underwater drones aren't new, but ones equipped with the tools required for professional cinema use are quite uncommon. That's what makes the Boxfish Luna so exciting, as it offers professional-level filmmaking control housed in a high-end ROV.
Drone camera footage captured an enormous fin whale with a deformed spine suffering from a rare case of "severe scoliosis."
Director Mikhail Parkhomenko's latest project creates an impossible-looking shot that was completed in a single uninterrupted take without using any computer generated-imagery (CGI) using a combination of a drone and a 360-degree camera.
A man stranded on a remote snow-covered road sent out a drone to call for help, saving him from a potentially deadly situation.
Aerial photography can give viewers a unique perspective that differs from their everyday visual experience, and therefore can bring novelty to an image.
A drone operator captured awe-inspiring footage of the Matterhorn summit filmed in glorious 5K.
DJI has ceased production and availability of its AeroScope drone detection system which is used to help keep drones away from airports and government facilities. However, Ukrainians claimed Russia used the tech to track their drone movements in the war.
A singer was injured during a live concert on Friday after a drone struck him on the head as he was performing.
A man has been fined £3,000 (about $3,604) and given a six-month suspended prison sentence after he was found guilty of flying a drone too close to a "priceless" World War II-era plane last summer.
Pro-Ukrainian pilots flew a drone they bought from a typical consumer store onto a $328 million Russian spy plane that was later destroyed.
An image from a drone helped emergency services locate and save a teenager with special needs in Cherokee County woods in Cherokee County, North Carolina on Monday.
Scientists are turning dead birds into drones that could be used to spy on wildlife and people.
Researchers have created a working prototype of a new hybrid drone that is capable of flying through the air and diving underwater, achieving propulsion in both environments using the same propellers.
DJI has announced its third installment in the Mini series of drones in the Mini 2 SE, which goes pretty much unchanged from the last version other than dropping support for 4K video, but it gets much cheaper in exchange.
A photographer has revealed how he captured a stunning single-shot looped video that was filmed entirely on a First Person View (FPV) drone.
A drone photographer captured the rare moment a bull moose shed both of its antlers describing it as a "once in a lifetime" moment.
Drone pilot Ryan Lademann has been granted the Guinness Book of World Records title for “fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled (RC) quadcopter” when his custom drone reached 224 miles per hour.
A curious eagle stole a photographer's drone from the sky and then took a selfie with it.