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If you’ve not seen viral drone footage from the country already, you will almost definitely have seen the island’s waterfalls, glaciers and volcanic deserts highlighted in a bunch of Hollywood movies and TV shows. Taking a drone to Iceland gives you a unique way to capture majestic landscapes – at the same time as practising your skills behind the controls. Iceland’s challenging elements, incredible light conditions and wide-open spaces make it a perfect creative finishing school. Making the most of your drone and getting awesome aerial shots generally depends on wide-open spaces, scenic views and dramatic natural spectacles.

Whether it’s another near miss with a manned aircraft, a case of voyeurism or a foiled prison drone delivery plot, negative stories involving the technology are much more common than positive ones. Why are stories in the media so overwhelmingly negative when we know for a fact that drones are saving lives around the world and having a significant impact across a range of industries? One of the major issues people have with drone technology is the same fear that applies to self-driving cars and autonomous systems in general. The general public isn’t particularly well-informed on the benefits of drone technology, on what they are capable of and on what they definitely aren’t capable of.

In this industry, we all start out as beginners. Even if you’ve moved beyond hobby flights at the weekend to flying drones as part of your 9 to 5, this business doesn’t stand still for long enough for anyone to properly catch up

reinforced its domination at both ends of the market with the Mavic Air and the new Mavic 2 Pro; Parrot launched a solid contender in the shape of ANAFI, despite cutting its workforce after disappointing sales. After all, if you can pack a fantastic camera, leading obstacle avoidance technology and portability into the Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, why would you choose to create bulkier models for the recreational market? But maybe 2019 will be the year that we see major progress for recreational pilots in the realms of computer vision, battery life or, as we are predicting today, weather-proofing. Watching DJI continue to innovate and push out exciting new drones – not to mention a range of other photography equipment and camera tech – is a thrill.