GoPro '25
It’s that time of the year when YouTube becomes inundated with highlight reels. As I film and shoot, I’m always interested to see filmmaker or manufacturer technology showcases. Irritatingly, drone footage of wildlife in particular frequently highlights incredible footage shot incredibly unethically. In isolation, it’s probably not going to cause harm and there are mitigations with flight height (relying on telephoto lenses) and using low noise propellers but it encourages replication and compounds the problem. Elephants are deterred by bees and the sound of a drone is not dissimilar to an angry swarm, certainly to an Elephant.
There are a couple of questionable encounters in the GoPro reel which is why I mention the impact of drones but what caught my attention was the filmmaker who flew a GoPro into a tornado. I’ve time coded it to the footage on the link but it’s incredible to have that perspective within a weather system.