Movie taken with DJI phantom4 over the Jordan river at the upper Galilee - Israel, and with DJI mavic pro over the Sea of Galilee
I need to ask- why might it be acceptable anywhere on our planet to cause unnecessary stress to wildlife?I gotta admit I'm more than a little jealous of your shots there. BEAUTIFUL!!
That wouldn't be "acceptable" in the US of A but over there... BEAUTIFUL!!
Safe flights
Allen
I need to ask- why might it be acceptable anywhere on our planet to cause unnecessary stress to wildlife?
Common sense? Shaming? C’mon- get the context right. I politely asked the OP to consider not harrassing the wildlife.Protecting the WILD LIFE is one thing, but protecting the birds from STRESS is way out of line.
I sometimes take my boat out of the dock and into the bay and back again 4 or 5 times during the day boating thru a massive about of seaguls, duck, pigeons, geese taking off like a bat out of hell as I make my path out to the bay, and if this is causing them stress than we are all in trouble.
It makes no difference if its a drone, or boat, or ship, or jet ski or tanker, plane, birds fly, that is what they do and shaming anyone that has a Boat that causes flocks to flight is NUTs let alone a Drone pilot taking some video of birds causing them to flight.
"Now try to imagine every boater does that to the birds and guess what we do."
At some point common sense has to REIGN KING. . . of the jungle.
Thank you all for your educated remarks and discussions.
As a farmer and a person that lives very close to nature, I had no intention to disturb wild lives around me.
On the contrary, I just wanted to document the wonderful views I meet almost daily.
The pictures on the lake: birds behave the same way every time that someone goes to swim there or even when I row my canoe and quietly get close to their flock. the birds take off and lend again after few meters. I took so many pictures of birds from my regular camera.You don't have to believe me but I tried to get to the birds slowly and as quiet as possible even though it looks in one of the seeneries as if I was "chasing" them. I was not! I flew my drone after them for short few meters and got further fade away by taking off.
Storks pictures: the storks are migrating birds in our region. twice a year storks flows are flying above the Jordan rift (The area were I live), to /from Europe/Africa. They are using air thermic to lift up and than they glide to the next thermic. this is the way they advance by using minimum energy. After learning their patern of taking off, I just joined them flying in order to document it and fly with them for short few minutes. I did not(!!!) disturb their afternoon rest....
And for the general discussion: I consider my drone as a camera platform to take pictures from different perspective. I fly my camera very careful with lots of consideration. I am looking after privacy of people and animals as well. I see NO DIFFERENCE between a drone photographer and a "ground photographer". For some reason people (including drones operators) consider drones cameras as a bigger threat than a regular camera and when they see a drone picture vs regular picture, it creates a resentment. And it should not!!!.....
Sorry for my long response