Dronestagram is a
photo sharing
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community dedicated to
drone photography
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Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wing aircra ...
. The site that has been described as "
Instagram
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for
drone
Drone most commonly refers to:
* Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
* Unmanned aerial vehicle
* Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft
* Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone
Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:
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s.
The site launched in July 2013 by Eric Dupin and is owned by his company Dronescape.
The project is based in
Lyon, France
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. There is also a dronestagram
iOS
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app.
Contests
It also holds an annual International Drone Photography Contest. In 2016 the competition co-sponsored by ''
National Geographic
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'' included 5,900 submissions from 28 countries which were broken down into the three categories: Nature-Wildlife, Sports-Adventure, and Travel.
To coincide with the
2015 UN climate summit in Paris, Dronestagram launched the 'Small drones, big changes' competition to find the best aerial photographs that illustrate "the effects of pollution on planet Earth and the solutions to tackle the problem".
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Dronestagram is partner of the Professional Drone Film Festival Contest dedicated to drone cinematographic art in ]Nantes
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.
Background
According to Eric Dupin drone photography quite literally offers a whole new perspective - he says "it depicts a new vision of the world, with stunning images taken from low altitude, near field" and distinguishes these from
"images taken by satellite
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or plane or helicopter, or, on the other end, street view images" and notes that "it represents an 'intermediary layer'". He calls it "a new photographic language"Google Earth
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, we are now used to seeing Earth from above", "drone photos bring a new way of seeing the world, at low altitude, near landscapes and buildings, like a bird would do".
The website
The site also features a drone business directory and a drone pictures world map.
As of 2015 the site has over 30,000 users.[
A study showed that new pictures are continuously uploaded and that the user community is steadily growing. Contribution analysis revealed participation inequality among data contributors: it was found that 55% of participating users contribute only one or two images, and that only 11% of users contribute 10 or more pictures. Analysis showed also that 92% of users contributed pictures in only one country. It also revealed a clear relationship between the income category of a country and the number of uploaded drone images among other factors. Furthermore, it identified the largest cluster of images around the project's home country France and the US' largest cluster in the southwest, which is known to be one of the thriving regions with in respect to IT development.][
The website is not to be confused with @Dronestagram on Instagram launched in 2012 by British artist ]James Bridle
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that shows Google Earth images of the locations of drone strike
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s.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.dronestagr.am/
Drone Jammer Website
Types of Cinematic Drone Shots
Aerial photography
Internet properties established in 2013
French photography websites
Image-sharing websites
Unmanned aerial vehicles
IOS software