Celebrating Earth Day! 🌎

Top AirVuz creator and drone pilot, as well as 2023 Drone Video of the Year nominee, OGB - Omer Gokcen brings us this stunning drone video of an other-wordly spot in the heart of Turkey.  The video was filmed around the municipality of Nallihan in the province of Ankara, about 100 mi. (around 160 km) west-northwest of the province's namesake and national capital city.  The magnificent landscapes here are on the outer (northwestern) edge of the Anatolean Plateau, the elevated flatland which covers much of the central part of the country.  

Top AirVuz contributor ALFPV put together some of his best alpine drone footage from 2023 and 2024 into this fantastic reel, which was picked as a Finalist for the Drone Video of the Week contest in early March of 2024.  Filmed with a DJI Mini 4 Pro drone, which weighs only about 8 oz. (around 250 g) and is thus perfect for mountain travel, the video will take you over some of the most spectacular peaks in Europe.  Locations include the mountains of northern Norway and the Dolomite Mountains in northeastern Italy.  

With nearly 700k followers on Instagram as of late 2023, Muhamad AbuShakra is one of the world's top aerial videographers.  While he has filmed a wide variety of locations, he is probably best known for filming some of the most spectacular mountain scenery on earth, often capturing himself in the video to show the immensity of surroundings.  In this stunning reel, he brings us highlights of his climbing and filming the mountains of the world, primarily the Alps Mountains in the heart of Europe.  

Prepare to be amazed by this inspiring video from multiple Drone Video of the Week / Month Winner and 2023 Drone Video of the Year finalist, BashirAbuShakra.  Recalling his childhood dream to become an astronaut, the video follows his eventual transition to another vocation which has allowed him to see the world from above, namely as a globe-circling aerial photographer / videographer.  The hero film features stunning footage from the mighty Swiss Alps, to the sand dunes of Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, to the deserts of Mongolia.

Top AirVuz contributor montesinosdroneworld created this fantastic drone video of a well-known rock formation in the Southwestern USA called Factory Butte.  So named by settlers in reference to its resemblance to a giant factory, it's a monolith (an isolated formation) located in the San Rafael Desert in southern Utah.  Its summit sits at an altitude of about 6.3k ft. above sea level, or around 1.9k m.  This video was picked by the AirVuz editorial staff as a Finalist for the Drone Video of the Week contest in November of 2023. 

Top AirVuz contributor and first person view (FPV) drone pilot nezartash brings us this stunning FPV piece from the canyon known as Wadi Lajab in Saudi Arabia.  Wadi Lajab is located in Jazan, a port town at the very southern extremity of the Kingdom.  The gorge is created by a series of streams which have etched their way into the rock.  It's considered on the great natural treasures of Saudi Arabia.  This video was picked by the AirVuz editorial staff for the FPV Pilots to Watch list in October of 2022.  

For a first upload to AirVuz, brand-new contributor txm.wander brings us this stunning first person view (FPV) drone view of the volcanic eruption in Iceland which attracted worldwide attention in July and August of 2023.  Following several days in which there were over 12,000 small earthquakes, the Fagradalsfjall volcanic complex erupted near Litli-Hrútur, initially releasing nearly 2k cubic ft. of lava (50 cubic m) per second, a flow rate higher than that seen at the outset of the 2021-22 Fagradalsfjall eruptions.  

Contributor and pilot 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 sands of this tropical Caribbean island.

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 the Central American nation of Costa Rica, this video is a wonderful example of how to take the perfect top-down dronie. "Rio Celeste, Costa Rica Dronie" was nominated as a Finalist in the Dronie category for the second annual AirVuz Drone Video Awards. 

Award-winning contributor Florian Ledoux used some of his best drone footage from earth's polar regions to put together this outstanding piece which won DVOW in February 2020. He skillfully uses the backdrop of shrinking glaciers and melting icebergs to remind us how these eco-systems - which hold the vast majority of the earth's freshwater - are to global climate change. The video features jaw-dropping footage from Greenland, Antarctica, the Canadian province of Nunavut, the Svalbard Islands of Northern Norway, and Iceland.

Celebrate Earth Day 2023 with this stunning drone video by top AirVuz contributor and pilot VolcaDrone Productions.  The video opens with shots of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, followed by views of some migrating whales.  Next, you'll track a group of hikers descending into a volcanic caldera, followed by some epic shots of some parasailers.  Other highlights of this Drone Video of the Week Finalist video include a series of epic surfing and waterfall shots.  

BashirAbuShakra is one of the top AirVuz content creators, with multiple Drone Video of the Week wins to his name.  In this amazing reel, you will see some of his best drone footage from four years of traveling around the globe.  Dedicated to those whose lives have been upended by the Covid-19 pandemic, the video opens with footage from the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park.   The video features some outstanding footage from Europe's Alps Mountains, as well as other spots ranging from the coast of Portugal to Norway's Lofoten Islands.  

Prepare to be mesmerized by this astonishingly DVOW nominated drone travel reel from AirVuz contributor Naudé Heunis. Shot in various locations around the world, the video opens with some incredible shots of a giant flock of flamingoes, followed by some incredible volcano crater footage.  Then it's on to the grasslands of Africa for aerial views of the continent's safari wildlife. Other highlights include a canyon in the Southwestern US, some epic whale footage, and much more.    

Former DVOW Winner Julien Hulin brings us this magnificent drone video from the French Alps, which was created to illustrate the effects of global warming on the glaciers of the Alps.  With their relatively small size, these glaciers are extremely sensitive to the ongoing rise in global temperatures.  The expected disappearance of at least 80% of their aggregate mass will mark the end of an important freshwater storage mechanism, and will forever disrupt the appearance of some of the world's most beautiful alpine landscapes.   

Southern Turkey is one of many areas around the world which is showing early effects of global climate change.  In this drone video by brand-new AirVuz contributor TIgDld, you'll see what this means in practice.  The video was filmed over the province of Antalya, one of the main provinces of the country's Mediterranean region, and which has been in the throes of severe draught that's widely believed to have been triggered by the ongoing global waming process.  The video was filmed with a DJI Air 2S drone,