The Best Dronies from Around the World

Shot on a DJI Phantom 4, chrisxgxc uses his skills and mighty imagination to bring us what a dronie would look like if the world was taken over by zombies. A master of visual effects, Chris says this is how he would break out of a horde of zombies - mapping his escape route with a drone!  Chris was a winner at the first annual Drone Video Awards with his classic "Cardboard Cadet", and this video was our Winner in the Dronie category for the 2nd Annual Drone Video Awards.

After you watch this epic mountain dronie, you'll understand how it won first place in the Dronie Category for the 2017 AirVūz Drone Video Awards!   Top contributor Wellington Rodriguez traveled up into the Bavarian Alps with a drone, and shot this stunning pullout shot capturing some of the most amazing rock formations you'll ever see.  Keep the title in mind as you watch it.  This was voted the top Dronie of 2017 by contributors for the first annual AirVuz Drone Video Awards.

Female pilot wrenee is known for her epic dronie locations - hence her nickname, "Queen of the Dronie". This video by the powerhouse pilot takes the cake with her smooth flying above the trees while she lies below on a thin bridge. Shot above the Tenorio Volcano National Park in Costa Rica this video is a wonderful example of how to take the perfect top-down dronie. "Rio Celeste, Costa Rica Dronie" is nominated in our 2nd Annual Drone Video Awards. 

Set in the wine country of Italy's Tuscany region, this dronie by contributor Druno is very unique for its epic "reveal". The video begins with a shot of the pilot sitting in a chair near a table.  Then it reveals his companion sitting on a couch pouring a glass of wine.  In one continuous shot, it flies out the window, providing a magnificent shot of the Tuscan countryside.   This video was picked as a Finalist in the Dronie category for the second annual Drone Video Awards. 

You will need to watch this epic dronie by a top contributor to see what he did here.  Dronies, or drone selfies, are a fun and unique way to showcase your surroundings.  Top content creator Brent DeBleser did just that by showing off this amazing Norwegian "waterfall" with a truly unique dronie shot.  Keep this in mind when you watch it: "waterfall" is in quotation marks for a reason!

Top contributor wrenee has a well earned reputation as the Queen of the Dronie.  Her AirVuz video portfolio consists of dozens of epic drone selfies shot from exotic places all over the world.  In this video wrenee and her drone, Furbie, collaborated to shoot a spectacular dronie on the Greek island of Milos outside of an abandoned sulphur mine.  Milos is the southernmost of the Cyclades group of islands, a region of Greece in the western Aegean Sea.  

Easter Island is a territory of Chile which sits far out into the Pacific Ocean.  The UNESCO World Heritage site is known for approximately 100 stone statues which are believed to have been built by Polynesian settlers who came to the island beginning in the 12th century.  In this video, the Queen of the Dronie Wrenee frames an epic selfie with five of these stone marvels in the background.  Since the 1990's, Easter Island has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

Dropped in the middle of a Norwegian sea atop a small islet, contributor hopenorway casts his drone up into the air and gives it a big smile.  There are many ways to take a good dronie, but what makes this one baffling is that although he's surrounded by sea water, there's not one drop of water on his knickers. It's one of the reasons why this video was nominated as a Finalist in the Dronies category for the second annual AirVuz Drone Video Awards. 

Contributor Dirka was one of the first drone pilots to gain a large following on Instagram; he currently has well over 200k fans.  He is a professional photographer and his drone videos reflect that background.  In this video, he sets up a group drone selfie flying backwards over the Columbia River Gorge in America's Pacific Northwest.  The  pull-out provides an epic view of the mighty canyon carved by one of North America's largest rivers, which divides the states of Oregon and Washington.

Contributor and drone pilot Wrenee, aka the Queen of the Dronie, applied her trademark pull-out shot to a gigantic (frozen) lake in eastern Russia.  Lake Baikal is situated in southern Siberia.  Formed by a giant rift valley, the long, narrow lake extends hundreds of km/mi northwards from its southern end near the border with Mongolia.  While it's surface area is not as large as some of North America's Great Lakes, its enormous depth makes it the world's largest freshwater lake by volume.

Brent De Bleser is at it again with one fantastic dronie! Flying up what he calls a "spaceship" you'll feel the vertigo-type effect the cylinder he's lying in gives you. This video is a perfect example of a top-down dronie: flying straight up with the subject below the drone to reveal a very unique location. This video is a Drone Video Awards Nominee in our Dronie category. 

Contributor Christian Cuvelier creates epic videos of the islands of the Indian Ocean as well as from Thailand.  His videos beautifully capture the look of these small pieces of paradise.  He also does a few drone selfie videos to mix things up.  In this video, he treats us to an incredible pull-away drone selfie shot with Christian and his son near Le Morne in the island nation of Mauritius.  

Wrenee, aka the Queen of the Dronie, gives us her trademark pull-out shot from Disko Island off the western coast of Greenland.  Disko is the second largest island of Greenland after the island of Greenland itself, the world's largest.  Disko, which is situated in Baffin Bay, is acually itself one of the world's 100 largest islands.  Disko has a population of about 1,000, making it the second most populated island of Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous region of Denmark.

What could possibly be better than lounging at the beach in a bikini with a drone in hand? And let's just add that this is in Krabi, Thailand - one of the hottest beach destinations in Southeast Asia, how about now?  Get a sky-high view of the ultimate tropical relaxation destination with contributor wrenees, more familiarly known as the Queen of the Dronie. You’re going to wish you were there too!  Krabi is one of the primary Thailand beach regions; it sits on the eastern side of Phang Nga Bay.

Looking for some great dronie ideas for this new year? Look no further than this 2018 compilation of dronies by GoGarrTV! He has top-downs, reveals, fly-outs, even some fun edits syncing shots together. Locations he's traveled to include the Philippines, Korea, Japan, and Canada, with shots from the mountains, the beach, underwater, in the snow, lying in the flowers, and more!

Elena Buenrostro has turned her passion for drones and aerial videography into a career; she's been featured in numerous high profile publications including the Washington Post and Fast Company.  In this video, she puts her DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to work creating an look at the Caribbean island of Jamaica.  The video includes epic timelapse and asteroid mode shots, and a very creative dronie with her "Woman Who Drone" tagline etched into the famous white Jamaican sand.

Contributor Tyler Rooke used a DJI Phantom 3 drone to create this epic selfie from Namotu Island, one of the 300+ islands which make up the nation of Fiji in the South Pacific.  It lies just a few km/miles to the west of Viti Levu, the main island of Fiji.  Namotu is the southernmost in a chain of tiny islands called the Mamanuca Islands.  It's known for having some of the best surfing beaches in Melanesia, as the southwestern part of the South Pacifc island region is known.  

Contributor and drone-explorer extraordinaire brings us this epic pull-out shot taken on the longest river in southern Africa.  The Orange River sources from the Drakensberg mountains and runs most of its 2.2 km (1,4k mi.) course westwards through South Africa, serving as its northern border with Namibia before discharging into the South Atlantic Ocean.  It is considered one of South Africa's greatest natural resources, supplying vast amounts of irrigation and hydropower to the region's most populous country.

Wrenee, aka Queen of the Dronie, took this epic drone selfie shot off of Dead Horse Point, in southern Utah.  It's part of the Moab Canyon area in southeastern Utah.  This area has been a go-to shooting location for moviemakers for decades, due in part to its similarity to the Grand Canyon.  The spot where this video was taken was the filming location for the opening scene of Mission: Impossible 2 (1999) in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is seen scaling a giant rock face.  

Check out this phenomenal dronie shot from top contributor Bbloss. It was shot from the Echo Park neighborhood, which lies just to the north of downtown Los Angeles.  The shot was taken facing south, towards the downtown skyline.  You don't see it, but if the shot had continued for another five seconds then Dodger Stadium would have appeared on your left; the stadium is located in Chavez Ravine which is the next neighborhood to the east of Echo Park.  

Top contributor Bbloss created one of his trademark "Bloss Out" dronie shots from a pass in the Rocky Mountains of the western US. Engineers' Pass is located between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado, in the southwestern part of the state.  The pass has an elevation of about 3.9k meters (around 12.8k ft.), making it one of the highest mountain passes in the United States.  If you watch this all the way through, you will realize how small humans are! 

Founder and CEO of Women Who Drone, Elena Buenrostro is killing the dronie game with this flyout and reveal of the New York City skyline as well as its emerging satellite in Queens.  The first shot is from Brooklyn facing west, with Freedom Tower luring in the background and the massive Con Ed powerplant on the East River in the foreground.  The second reveal faces north to the Long Island City mini-skyline in Queens, home of the new Amazon headquarters facilities.  

In this video, the Besos (aka the Flip Flop Squad) give us a bird's eye view of one of the top beaches in eastern Australia.  Whitehaven beach is on Whitsunday Island, the largest of a group of islands which lie off the coast of the state of Queensland.  They lie between Conway National Park on the mainland and the Great Barrier Reef.  The drone video shows the torquoise blue water of the island and features one of the Besos' trademark dronie shots at the 1:10 mark.

Renee Lusano goes by the profile name Wrenees, but her nickname is "Queen of the Dronie".  With over 100,000 followers on Instagram as of early 2019, she has developed a trademark pull-out dronie selfie shot which she's honed from locations around the world.  Her dronie from the jungles of Central America, "Rio Celeste, Costa Rica" was chosen as a finalist in the Dronie category for the second annual Drone Video Awards.   Tyler Mason catches up with the Queen in this episode of the Drone Dish.