SkyPixel has named the winners of its eighth Annual Photograph & Video Contest. You noticed the finest drone pictures of 2024 shared right here earlier this week. And certain the pictures had been beautiful, however one thing about this Alaska ski video is next-level. Among the many 130,000 submissions into this yr’s contest (which, by the way in which, is an 100% enhance over final yr), this yr’s judging panel narrowed the video submissions to 1 grand prize winner.
That prime winner is a video referred to as “Haines Alaska By the Eyes of Luke Bredar.” The quick movie depicting a skier racing down a snowy mountaintop landscapes with breathtaking pictures of Alaska’s mountainous, winter terrain was filmed by Luke Bredar.
Watch the total movie right here.
“The motivation behind creating this video was to evoke themes of otherworldliness, goal threat, the interaction between threat and the essence of human spirit, solitude, impermanence, self-sufficiency, and the journey of incomplete wandering intertwined with heartbreak,” Bredar mentioned.
That video was chosen by a judging panel of seasoned specialists together with:
- Michael Fitzmaurice, finest often known as the Aerial Director of Images of “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
- Xiaoshi Zhao, finest identified for his award-winning work on “Perpetually Enthralled”
- Bing Xi, a distinguished determine within the Chinese language TVC trade
- Filmmaker Brandon Li
Past honor and glory, Bredar walks away with a prize pack value greater than $14,000, together with an Encourage 3 drone. Bredar additionally earns the title of ‘official SkyPixel Creator.’
What’s SkyPixel?
SkyPixel is a web based group of aerial photographers and videographers. At its core, artists publish their work to the location (and that in flip makes them eligible to win the title). In response to SkyPixel, there at the moment are greater than 42 million registered customers.
The ninth Annual SkyPixel Photograph & Video Contest winners had been chosen by way of a submission interval which opened on Nov. 7 2023 and ran by way of Feb. 2, 2024. Whereas all video entries needed to have been primarily shot on a drone, they didn’t essentially need to be a DJI drone).
The successful video this yr took us to Alaska, however what about final yr’s SkyPixel video winner? Try the finest drone video of 2023. And in case you missed it, you need to scroll by way of the listing of the finest aerial pictures of 2023, additionally primarily based on SkyPixel winners.
Different mesmerizing drone movies to observe in 2024
And naturally, whereas Bredar definitely deserves the title of SkyPixel Drone Videographer of the 12 months, that’s hardly to say that’s the one award-winning drone video you’ll see this yr. The truth is, earlier this month, one other video-sharing web site, AirVuz, introduced its personal drone video contest winners.
As a part of the AirVuz 2023 drone video contest, aerial videography firm AeroCircus walked away with the award of Drone Video of the 12 months for his or her Showreel 2023. As well as, Skynamic Drone, one other drone filming firm, gained FPV Video of the 12 months with their reel, FPV Demoreel. You may watch these award-winning movies (and be taught extra about Airvuz’s contest) right here.
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