Amazing Footage of a Drone filming Fireworks

Using a fairly inexpensive bit of kit, a Phantom 2 drone and a GoPro, we get a unique view of a firework display.

We all take a lot of technology for granted – the virtually omnipresent microchip – the handheld device capable of communicating with satellites nonchalantly wedged into a pocket  – its hard to please the modern digital audience these days. But the footage of a drone equipped with a GoPro camera is simple brilliant. The technology is affordable. The application, at face value, fairly simple. But the results are awesome (and I mean awesome in the real sense of the word and not a youthful Americanism). It’s a view of a firework show that I’ve always wanted, always imagined as I peered into the sky. Flying a drone through the exploding fireballs brings opens up a whole new world.

This video is a brilliant example of how technology can present us with entirely new ways of thinking and of seeing in a very democratic way. I love it as did my 10 year old son, as did my seventy-something year old dad. As impressive as the technology being used is, the experience, the visual awakening, is the overriding take-away.

Video curtesy of Jos Stiglingh