[Rockhounds] This is What Happens When You Fly a Drone Into a Volcano

[J/P Davis]

Anyone know the elevation of the drone when these were shot?


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>Photographer Garðar Ólafs — and founder of the Iceland-based stock agency
>Airstock <https://airstock.is/> — recently took his DJI drone to the skies
>above the erupting Geldingadalir volcano and may have gotten a little bit
>too close.
>
>The Geldingadalir volcano which is currently erupting about 15 minutes from
>Ólafs’s home town of Reykjanes.
>
>“It’s a special feeling having an erupting volcano 15 minutes from my
>home,” Ólafs writes on Instagram
><https://www.instagram.com/gardarolafsphotography/>. “Reykjanes has always
>been an underestimated part of Iceland, but today it’s probably the most
>known part, funny how things can change in one night.”
>
>Ólafs and his brother Oli Haukur have been shooting a lot of drone content
>over the last five years in Iceland and thought it would be a good idea to
>list the footage instead of leaving it on hard drives to languish
>unappreciated. Instead of working with established stock agencies, they
>decided to start their own agency and have since sold some footage to
>Netflix, Apple, BBC, and others. Some of the footage
><https://airstock.is/collections/aurora-drone-footage/>, including the
>shots of the Geldingadalir volcano
><https://airstock.is/footage/geldingadalur-eruption-iceland-id-43222298/>
>below,
>are available nowhere else.
>
>Ólafs tells *PetaPixel* that he was flying his drone around the eruption,
>capturing photos and videos, when he decided to try a shot looking straight
>down into the mouth of the fissure.
>
>https://petapixel.com/2021/03/26/this-is-what-happens-when-you-fly-a-drone-into-a-volcano/
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