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45 Finalists Chosen For World Drone Photography Awards 2024
30.05.2024 - 14:43 / forbes.com
The shortlist for this year’s world’s best aerial photography has been chosen, featuring five nominees in each of the nine categories. The winners of the Drone Photo Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Siena, Italy on 28 September 2024. The annual competition is open to professional and amateur photographers and is judged by a jury of five international professional photographers, filmmakers and curators.
The nominated works, selected from over 2,000 shots submitted from 113 countries are in the categories: Wedding, Nature, People, Urban, Animals, Abstract, Sport, Video and Series. The works are from aerial photography and videos captured through a variety of methods including from fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, blimps, dirigibles, rockets, kites and parachutes.
In the Abstract category, the nominated shots are Elddreki / Fire Dragon by Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove (Belgium), Lights and Shadows by Ignacio Medem (Spain), Magical Lines by Mohd Khorshid (Kuwait), Marching in the Salt Marsh by Raj Mohan (India), and Tree of Life by Isabella Tabacchi (Italy). Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove’s stunning entry Fire Dragon was captured during the 2023 volcanic eruption of Fagradalsfjall at Litli-Hrútur in Iceland and shows the lava outbreak forming the image of a dragon, which was only visible when looking straight down onto the lava field.
The Animals category includes Pelicanos Blancos by Guillermo Soberón (Mexico), Ocean Clean Up by Toby Nicol (United Kingdom), Fuji Mountain by Mohammad Alqattan (Kuwait), Sea of Pink by Paul McKenzie (Ireland), and A Polar Romance by Florian Ledoux (France). The five nominations for the Nature category are Stay Where Your Heart Smiles by Silke Hullmann (Germany), Blika by Brynjar Agustsson (Iceland), Ground Vein by Xiaoying Shi (China), The Eye of the Dragon by Miki Spitzer (Israel), and Tongue by Daniel Viñé Garcia (Spain). A Polar Romance, Florian Ledoux’s beautiful shot of a polar bear couple shows a male and female polar bear laying together, having just completed their courtship ritual.
In the People category, the nominated shots are Bucha, City of Death by Carol Guzy (United States), Cranberry Harvest by Brad Weiner (United States), Last Minute by Roberto Hernandez (Mexico), Drifting in Space by Gilad Topaz (Israel), Shepherd with Herd by Ivo Danchev (Bulgaria), and Walking for a New Life by Luis Acosta (Colombia). Drifting in Space by Gilad Topaz was taken while sailing on an icebreaker, showing rubber suited crew swimming in the frozen Baltic Sea.
The nominees for the Sport category are Blue Adrenaline: The Surge of Pipeline by Matt Dusig (United States), Chain Lights of Cross-Country Skiers by Daniel Koszela (Poland), Boli Khela by
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