This Week In Photo: How To Register Your Drone
Plus uncanny teens, freakish waves and the first American female war correspondent killed in action.
The time has come to register your drone.
This week the Federal Aviation Administration finally announced its rules for registering drones, and we learned the details: The online registration process will be open on December 21, 2015, noted PetaPixel: If you purchased your drone before that date, you’ll have until February 19 to register it. If you purchase a drone after December 21, you’ll need to register it immediately before you can legally fly it.
Though a number of media organizations petitioned the government to not impose any registration fees, the FAA is charging $5.00 for the three-year registration, though the fee is being waived for the first month of registration, from Dec. 21 through Jan. 20, 2016, in order to encourage people to register.
Registrants will need to provide their name, home address and e-mail address, noted PDN Pulse. After they have registered, they will receive a Certificate of Aircraft Registration/Proof of Ownership that will include a unique identification number for the UAV owner — an ID which must be marked on the aircraft.
PDN adds that the newly announced registration process is for hobbyists only: A registration system targeting the business use of drones is expected to go live in the Spring of 2016.
Why is all this happening? As CNET noted this week, 2015 was year that drones went from “Wow, cool” to “Oh, oh.”
And five other photo stories spotlighted this week:
1. Dave Sandford’s New-Wave Waves
Earlier this year, PPD looked at trend we called “the art of the ocean” — including photographers capturing epic waves. This week we featured some truly impressive waves that kicked up in a body of fresh water — Lake Erie. London, Ontario-based photographer Dave Sandford’s images of “liquid mountains” on the Great Lake drew some 300,000 views after being posted to the web recently. Sandford, who usually shoots sports, was “overwhelmed” by the response, noted the Huffington Post. He shot during November, on dark and story days when waves jumped into freakish shape, added Fstoppers.
2. Documenting the Refugee Trail By Drone
Will drones change photojournalism? If so, the New York Times offered a glimpse of how when it featured a drone’s-eye-view of the current refugee crisis in Europe taken by Rome-based photographer Rocco Rorandelli. “It’s a less personal story that I’m telling from the air,” said Rorandelli. He relied on the more distant perspective to emphasize that not only is migration for better opportunities a human phenomenon dating back millenniums, but also one we share with many other species, noted the Times.
3. Documenting the Universal Family
Last February, PPD took note of New York City-based photographer Michele Crowe’s “Universal Family” project — an effort to depict what real families look like around the world. The Kickstarter project Crowe launched to fund the work was success, enabling her to travel to India and seven different countries in Europe. “The project continues to grow and its message gets more sophisticated,” Crowe told us this week. She recently launched a website dedicated to the work and wrote about it at Bored Panda.
4. Hellen Van Meene’s Otherworldly Adolescents
“The adolescent girls in Hellen van Meene’s portraits have always seemed to be under some kind of spell,” noted the New Yorker recently. “Bathed exquisitely in natural light, as if in a Vermeer or a Rembrandt, they are often stark in dress and appearance; they gaze up or down or off and away, or keep their eyes shut, as if in a quiet, dreamy rebellion against the Dutch photographer’s camera.” Van Meene’s work is on view at New York’s Yancey Richardson Gallery through January 23.
5. The Life and Death of Dickey Chapelle
Photographer Dickey Chapelle once said, “You can do anything you want to do if you want to do it so badly you’ll give up everything else to do it.”
The noted photojournalist lived and died by those words: Chapelle was with a patrol in Vietnam when a Marine triggered a tripwire that set off a booby trap. A fragment of shrapnel sliced her carotid artery, thereby earning her a place in photo history: Her story, we noted, is told in the new book Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action.
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