It’s photography taken to another level. These are the jaw-dropping winning and runners-up still images in the SkyPixel 2018 Aerial Storytelling Contest, which attracted over 30,000 submissions from drone photographers and videographers from 141 countries. The grand prize winner in the still image category is Deryk Baumgartner, who used a Mavic Pro drone to capture a sun-bathed Mont-Saint-Michel in northern France emerging out of the fog, framed by ribbons of water. Mr Baumgartner said that he took the image just as he was about to go home. He said: ‘Stick to it for a little longer in life when you are just about to fold, the silver lining will often unveil itself.’ After the top overall prize, gongs were handed out in various categories including travel, sports, urban life, nature and creativity. From a football match on the Lofoten islands to morning prayer in Bagan, the winning submissions, says SkyPixel, ‘captured amazing stories that took place in different parts of the globe’.Scroll down to see snaps from aerial photographers at the height of their power.
