Z-Axis Chronicles Photography - M1key - Michal Huniewicz
As I was playing with my drone, an older man appeared and asked a lot of questions about it. "This is the golden age of drones - because there are no rules yet", I said to him. Half an hour later I got caught by the police for violating civilian aviation rules. I was wrong - there are rules, and they are different in every country, and they are as clear as mud.
Below, images from Scotland, England, Poland, and France.
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Can You See the Monster?
Loch Ness, Scotland. This is where the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster named Nessie is supposed to live. [1]
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/320s.
Dunvegan Castle
Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It happens to be the oldest continually inhabited castle in Scotland. [2]
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/430s.
Lake Around Dunvegan
Kilchurn Castle
Kilchurn Castle. The island is a temporary island - all depends on the tide. We met an American amateur drone operator there who said he wanted to use drones for deer hunting - because killing helpless animals with a sniper rifle isn't enough.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/850s.
Kilchurn Castle From Above
Slaughtered Trees
We saw lots of trees cut down or destroyed by the wind in Scotland. Millions have been cut down to make way for wind farms. [3]
ISO 126, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/50s.
Eilean Donan Castle
This is the Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland. Eilean means simply island. The castle was built in the 13th century to protect the area from the troublemakers of that time - the Vikings. If the Vikings reaching Scotland doesn't sound impressive, let's not forget they made it to Morocco, Sicily, Constantinople (where they left a graffiti in Hagia Sophia), and Iran, among others.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/180s.
Housesteads Fort
Housesteads Fort - previously known as Vercovicium, Borcovicus, Borcovicium, and Velurtion, built in AD 124. [4]
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/160s.
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall (the one above the ridge). The sheep feel safe behind it.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/380s.
Goodbye Scotland
Great N Way
Human Trash
Park in London. The tree was hit by a lightning, then cut down. Stupid humans leave litter every week.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/150s.
OK, That's Not Nice
London at Night
Hendon Church
St Albans Cathedral
No English cathedral can boast a nave longer than that of St Albans Cathedral - 84 metres. This is a Norman/Romanesque building with later Gothic additions, and some of the stones used in its construction came from the nearby ruins of an ancient Roman town of Verulamium. [5]
ISO 105, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/50s.
Wembley Stadium
Going to Poland
Karnkowo Church
Sometimes it's enough to stop along the road to discover something interesting or beautiful. Here, an elegant, 16th century wooden church (see the tower) turned into a baroque church in the 18th century, in the village of Karnkowo.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/320s.
Size Doesn't Matter
The Orthodox Christian church of St. Nicolas proudly facing a Catholic church (originally a Protestant church), Toruń, Poland.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/640s.
Morąg Old Town
This is the town of Morąg - where I was born. In fact the hospital where I was born is in this picture (right of the water tower).
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/570s.
Morąg Church and Castle
This is the church in Morąg. The church is from the 14th century, but its current shape is from the 18th century. [6]
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/320s.
Morąg Town Hall
The Town Hall in Morąg and the two cannons that have been there since I can remember.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/500s.
Church & Castle, Another Take
Bell Tower
When the ball began to ring, I quickly switched the video mode on, to realise only later the drone doesn't record sound.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/1250s.
Road to Dobrocin
Road to Kozia Wólka
When I was a kid, chidlren from Kozia Wólka had to walk across the forest every day going to school.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/670s.
Old Forest New Forest
Dobrocin Palace
Dobrocin Palace in Poland - I took some photos from the ground earlier.
ISO 150, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/100s.
Garden Side Entrance
Dobrocin Agriculture School
Dobrocin Agriculture School. It's where my parents used to teach.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/280s.
Goodbye
Ksenia in France
Provins Amphitheatre
The dude just right of the tower was yelling at us in French to stop flying, but we were legally allowed to fly there. Well, we win.
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/1000s.
Provins Amphitheatre
The 12th century Tower of César (left) in Provins, France is supposedly the only known tower with an octagonal base. It houses a bell that bears a curious inscription: "In 1511 I was cast / De Quiriace they called me, / I reign in the air and chase the clouds / Devil, thunder and hail in my name".
ISO 100, 4mm, f/2.8, 1/1800s.
