AIREYS INLET’S Split Point Lighthouse cuts a striking image as captured from on high by a drone-camera.
Drones are increasingly popular with photographers, and finding new applications among everyone from real estate agents to the mining sector — not to mention defence forces.
With a cost of around $2000 to get set up, they’re within ready striking range of the general public. Their implications with regard to privacy and other laws, however, have yet to be tested.
Notwithstanding, some upper-end hotels have already started offering poolside drone drink services while mail deliveries and other drone services are on the drawing board. Pizzas maybe?
Another thing yet to be tested, and presumably a fair challenge, is just what birds — known to be ferociously territorial to a fault — might think of their new featherless friends.
Stay tuned ….
— NOEL MURPHY
