If this assortment of greatest drone images of 2024 are any indication, drone images has come a good distance since its inception. In 2024, drone images continued its ascent to new heights, capturing breathtaking landscapes, wildlife encounters and even human endeavors in methods by no means earlier than attainable with a digital camera on land or a helicopter within the sky.

SkyPixel at present introduced the winners of its ninth Annual Picture & Video Contest. The winners had been chosen throughout greater than 130,000 submissions, which is a 100% improve from the earlier 12 months.

Out of all 130,000 aerial images, this was deemed the very best drone picture of 2023:

The picture above is titled “Mongolian Yurt,” and it was submitted by the aerial photographer who goes by Daolai.

Daolai shot the picture on a snowy morning within the Ulan Butung Grasslands of Interior Mongolia utilizing a Mavic 3 Professional drone. For this particular picture, Daolai capitalized on the drone’s thrice zoom performance.

So what’s so standout about this specific picture in opposition to the hundreds of different SkyPixel entries?

“Captured this picture depicts herdsmen making preparations for the grassland occasion,” in accordance with an announcement from SkyPixel. “The scene is of course picturesque, authentically depicting the lives of the herdsmen as they work together with the horses, the camels and the panorama, with their yurt, their houses, as a central focus. In opposition to the stark distinction created by the snow, Daolai discovered the scene paying homage to a conventional Chinese language ink portray.”

That picture was chosen by a judging panel of seasoned specialists together with:

• Wen Huang, a World Press Picture choose and Senior Editor
• Anne Farrar, Assistant Images Chief Editor at Nationwide Geographic
• Nan Li, the Picture Director of Southern Weekly
• Daniel Kordan, a famend panorama photographer

““I used to be drawn to the storytelling of this picture,” Farrar mentioned. “Such a lovely wispy panorama has a beautiful painterly look, very tender and virtually looks like powder. A ravishing aerial panorama that doesn’t depend on graphic high quality alone and tells a neighborhood story.”

Different nice drone images of 2024

Whereas Daolai took the general grand prize within the SkyPixel ninth Annual Picture & Video Contest, there have been loads of different deserving photographs. SkyPixel additionally launched the outcomes of the opposite ‘High 10’ winners in addition to the 5 ‘Nominated Picture’ winners. Right here they’re:

High 10 Images of 2024

High Nominated Images of 2024

What occurs to the winners?

In addition to honor and publicity, the photographers behind the very best drone images of 2024 really get bodily prizes.

The Annual Greatest Work prize entailed greater than $14,000 price of substances. That package included a Hasselblad X2D 100C medium format mirrorless digital camera, which alone goes for greater than $8,000. Moreover, SkyPixel named Daolai as an official SkyPixel Creator (which features a prestigious trophy and an award certificates).

In the meantime, the High Picture winners every acquired the DJI Mavic 3 Professional Fly Extra Combo (DJI RC), a trophy, and award certificates, with a complete worth of almost $3,000. The Nominated Prizes every acquired the Osmo Motion 4 Journey Combo and award certificates (price about $400) and the Individuals’s Alternative Prizes acquired the Osmo Cell 6 and award certificates (price about $150).

The ninth Annual SkyPixel Picture & Video Contest winners had been chosen by means of a submission interval which opened on Nov. 7 2023 and ran by means of Feb. 2, 2024. All entries needed to have been shot on a drone (although it didn’t essentially need to be a DJI drone).

Curious what the competitors was like final 12 months? Take a look at the winners from the seventh version of the competition, which had been named in 2023. And are available again later this week for a information to the very best aerial movies of 2023, additionally primarily based on SkyPixel winners.

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