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

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Fagradalsfjall, with its main peak Langhóll, and Geldingadalir that is
erupting, has its highest point at 385 m (1,263 ft). The article said the
drone was below the rim of the crater, and close enough to melt plastic.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 5:45 PM J/P Davis <davisj at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Anyone know the elevation of the drone when these were shot?
>
>
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> >From: Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com>
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> >Subject: [Rockhounds] This is What Happens When You Fly a Drone Into a
> Volcano
> >
> >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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