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 have been beautiful, however one thing about video is next-level. Among the many 130,000 submissions into this yr’s contest (which, by the way in which, is an 100% improve over final yr), this yr’s judging panel narrowed the video submissions to 1 grand prize winner.

That high winner is a video referred to as “Haines Alaska By the Eyes of Luke Bredar.” The brief 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 complete 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 stated.

That video was chosen by a judging panel of seasoned specialists together with:

• Michael Fitzmaurice, finest often known as the Aerial Director of Pictures of “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”
• Xiaoshi Zhao, finest recognized for his award-winning work on “Ceaselessly Enthralled”
• Bing Xi, a outstanding determine within the Chinese language TVC trade
• Filmmaker Brandon Li

Past honor and glory, Bredar walks away with a prize pack price 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 neighborhood of aerial photographers and videographers. At its core, artists publish their work to the positioning (and that in flip makes them eligible to win the title). Based on SkyPixel, there are actually greater than 42 million registered customers.

The ninth Annual SkyPixel Photograph & Video Contest winners have been chosen via a submission interval which opened on Nov. 7 2023 and ran via 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 profitable 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, it’s a must to scroll via the checklist of the finest aerial pictures of 2023, additionally based mostly on SkyPixel winners.

Different mesmerizing drone movies to look at in 2024

And naturally, whereas Bredar actually 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. Actually, earlier this month, one other video-sharing website, 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 possibly can watch these award-winning movies (and study extra about Airvuz’s contest) right here.

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