Ten Minutes Aloft

2013 · Camera Hexacopter Drone · Work 1276 of 1,871

A wet meadow beside an old railway embankment in Buckinghamshire on a grey drizzly October afternoon, a small black six-rotor drone hovering just above the grass, six black carbon-fibre lattice arms, at each end a black motor and a propeller blurred into a soft disc, on top a small white round receiver disc on a stalk, below on a gimbal a black camera with a silver lens, two landing legs with red tape strips and black rubber feet, every surface plain and unmarked, an operator in a dark waterproof jacket seen from directly behind, face turned fully away, both hands on a remote control with long antennas.