Due to COVID-19 restrictions, most of the world is still locked down. This includes Keukenhof, one of the largest flower gardens around, located in the Netherlands. Wiebe de Jager flew his DJI FPV drone through it to offer up 'a bird's flight' perspective, as he calls it. With the management's permission, de Jager spent seven minutes weaving through the garden's trees, mazes of cropped bushes, and tulip beds.
The DJI FPV drone is the first consumer-grade FPV (first-person-view) unit that offers up GPS and obstacle avoidance sensors. When flying in Normal or Sport mode, those two features are activated and the drone can also hover plus Return to Home if it gets disconnected. Unlike other FPV platforms, DJI offers up to 20 minutes flight time and a range of up to 10km (6.2 miles) – making flights like these possible.
It's pretty clear, from the footage above, that de Jager used Normal mode for a slow and graceful flight. This allowed him to effectively share the garden's stunning foliage with viewers. You can check out more of his work, or get in touch, on his main website.
Too fast for me too, and the music is awful, doesn't fit the wonderful spirit of happy, colorful flowers at all! Should have used some 18th century Dutch baroque music that might have been played at the Castle Kuykenhof.
Gah, too fast. How is exhibiting a dream landscape with dream music at low angle and quick speeds enjoyable? He should have used the Air or pro 2 which are better att slow movements.
I own a Mavic Pro and yes, I could do something similar. However, without the goggles, it's tough. I tried doing it over the waves during a coastline flight. Hard to tell if I was already too close to the water, until of course my drone came back to me all wet :) I've lost a Spark doing the same thing before but what the heck we only live once!
Really nice, I very much enjoyed watching this video. I definitely like the slight roller coaster effect. The beauty of the place is very well represented.
Nope it didn't! It will only open in two weeks time when the second tier restrictions will be lifted and even then strict rules in the Netherlands still apply.
The opening was a one day event under strict rules and brought as a test event (fieldlab). Only a selected group of people was allowed to enter the park and after taking a negative covid test. All commercial parks like Keukenhof and amusement parks are still closed.
That was not a normal reopening of any kind - It was a so called fieldlab. Which is NOT a regular reopening. One needed to apply to visit, one needed to have a negative covid test taken within 40 hours of visiting a fieldlab test site. It has never been that you could just go and visit the site.
Why are you misleading people into letting them think you can just go and visit this place. While reality is that you can't. Why can't you just admit this was part of a fieldlab test.
It's nice to see the video but, in all honesty, the video does not do justice to the place. The sheer number and variety of tulips and other flowers on display in the garden is amazing and this diversity is lost in the video where we see the forest but not the trees.
Without smell .... than this whole presentation is worth nil.... ! Sorry for the nice images ... but you have to been smelling and enjoying the scene in a few days .... than you later realise .... what you miss.
Tulips don't smell. We've a couple dozen varieties in our yard and add more every year, no odor. In breeding for appearance, most flowers have lost their odor genes. Not just tulipd but carnations, roses and many others.
One of the commenters pointed out the near-miss (bird collision) at time mark 3:18. I have conflicted feelings on the human-less view. Covid caused 2021 to be the second year closed to viewers, but getting a few staff posed here and there would be a visual reminder of the human hand in all this. Of course the human presence is plain, but to put a few bipeds in the frame makes it more "lived in." Imagine a sequel for summer (lots of shade, no doubt), fall, and winter, too.
The video is to fast. It doesn't take the time to show the beauty of the flowers and the colors. I was once there and spend the whole day and it was great.
For me this is a very unpleasant video. Way to fast and with this annoying sound effect. It feels like a roller coaster. Not at all a feeling I would like at De Keukenhof. I would also not visit if it were open, way to crowded.
What a wonderful place. So well laid out and maintained. A great production to show of the gardens in a way seldom seen. I have no doubt that the time to plan the production and ensure everything on site was immaculate took a tad longer than the 7 minutes. Thanks for posting it.
Stupidity was on display in every country during the pandemic at one time or another. Everyone is entitled to be stupid. "Stupid is as stupid does" -- From "Forest Gump"
Thanks largely to Trump, the USA suffered a long period of many people not dealing with COVID19 appropriately... which honestly is still a problem in the form of a significant number of people refusing both to get vaccinated and to take appropriate precautions such as wearing a mask. Fortunately, it seems that these risky behaviors will now primarily harm those who are behaving badly; before the vaccines, their bad behaviors could easily harm others much more than themselves. Let's hope there will be some lessons learned so that the next pandemic will be neither as deadly nor as socio-economically disruptive....
Trump called the vaccines "medical miracles" and sped up their development. It is okay to say Operation Warp Speed worked... because it did. Here are the total number of doses he ordered before they were even developed. Nobody knew which would hit at the time but 800 million doses was an amazing start:
Pfizer-BioNTech: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen) Moderna: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen) Johnson & Johnson: 100 million doses (one-dose regimen) AstraZeneca: 300 million doses (two-dose regimen) Novavax: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen) Sanofi-GlaxoSmithKline: 100 million doses (one- or two-dose regimen)
He took heat on closing the borders to the limit he did.
I can't stand either of the two main political parties. I'll keep my vote to myself but I do believe credit has to be given where it is due.
I'm very optimistic that the virus can be beaten. There is a great PBS video on vaccines and it shows how Smallpox seemed unbeatable but that proved to be wrong.
Very Nice! Good sound design, and videography, I'm impressed that they have kept the gardens up with no visitors, and they look great! I have seen some world-class tulip gardens in my time, and these are impressive! There's honestly more there than you could take in in a day.
Thank you for sharing this :) I can't wait to get back to Holland, and return to the Keukenhof again. If you love garden flowers, it's a truly amazing experience!
The drone nearly crashed into a duck at 3.18 - which is actually not very funny. A duck is not a swallow, that can avoid a drone. Inertia is quite substantial for such "big" birds, especially while landing. The bird might get substantially injured by the drone - and I am pretty sure it was scared to death. As this a video by the official site they probably did not even notice the incident.
I think animals are not very welcome in this garden at all. Or the animals don't want to live there because tulip growing it's not quite an (bio/eko)organic business.
@Michael Sb: Who was talking about news? And it is the drone crashing into a bird, not vice versa. What you wrote is contemptuous and proofs your disrespect for life.
The duck didn't collide with the drone, and the drone didn't collide with the duck. There's no conflict. Given the rough ten frames the duck was in the picture it was in the process of landing and was unconcerned with the drone as they did not cross flight trajectories.
This is the most none-problem thing I have seen all week. Great work.
No , it did not collide. By how much? The FPV uses a wide angle lens, i.e., everything looks farther away than it actually is. Yet, you can tell the color of the various layers of feather of the duck in very good detail. How far away was that? Half a meter? How many ms? Just to use another scale. It was just luck and circumstance that nothing happened (and I am not caring about the drone). I know that you do not care. That is what my first reply was about: Narcissism over life. Yet, that the officials do not care to cut the scene from the video is truly shocking. This video should be about the beauty of tulips? - I do not believe a single word.
For some reasons I do not like killing or almost killing birds by drones. We shoot wildlife (and everything else as well) in a non-destructive way. Or at least we should. The drone operator of the drone neither was aware of the bird nor could he have avoided a crash by any means. With a most probably fatal result for the bird. That is not how photography should be.
But it didn't, if it did, is it the pilot's fault? Is it the duck's? This is like birds flying into windows and dying. To put it short, don't fly drones if you don't want birds dying from it.
If it did - and it is pure circumstance that it did not - it would have been the pilot's fault. The bird was just landing somewhere in its natural environment with its normal speed etc. Unnatural was the drone approaching the bird at a speed much too high for the bird to manage to avoid it. It was like driving at 90 mph in a city while some old guy was crossing the street. And windows are the same btw. Birds are not able to distinguish between a reflection of and the original subject. We like to put mirroring windows in the environment of birds. So it is our fault as well. I love your conclusion, Djehuty! Or fly slow enough and with a view of what is going around around the drone, to be able to react and avoid collisions with birds.
I think it would very much reflect the necessary things to do of our time to just stay away from Birds or/and flying then. We should urgently stop intruding the habitats of other beings. Especially, if our intrusion is just for 'fun'. To our knowledge we are the only beings able to control our doing. So it is our responsibility.
Unless you think the pilot intentionally targeted the duck, if anything would have happened it would have been an accident. But nothing happened so all is good.
As I said before, it is like driving much to fast through a city. Nothing is ‚good‘ if nothing happens. And that is why there are speedlimits. And usually, drivers going too fast have no intention to hurt anybody either. Yet, they are held responsible.
Considering we only saw one duck, your city analogy is wrong. Additionally, there was no posted speed limit for the pilot to break, just like with sections of the autobahn.
If anything the duck was a fault for not obeying Covid lock-down regulations.
Besides that there are speed limits in villages as well I end the discussion with you here. As brave as you are I suggest cutting the neck of your next chicken/duck/goose meal yourself.
It's true that I don't overdramatize things, we just disagree that flying a drone through a closed Tulip garden with a minimum of bird traffic is disrespectful.
You do not know anything about the amount of bird traffic in the park. This kind of drone can't tell anything about the bird density. Apart from myself hardly anybody even noticed the one bird which was there and which one was almost knocked down. The distance was about half a meter. So, how do you know anything about the bird population at Keukenhof?
Impressive feat of flying, but my sense is the video did more to show off the capabilities of the drone than to provide the beauty of the tulips. I would have preferred things slowed down much more and have a few seconds to concentrate closer on some of the tulip arrangements. There was no time to observe and appreciate.
As a drone photography enthusiast I’ve always had a preconception of the FPV racing drone sector to be rather brash, macho, perhaps even a little aggressive, but this video shows quite the other side of the hobby. What a beautiful, relaxing video. The flying and filming style, the editing, the sound and the place are all serene, and it’s a delight to watch. Next time I am in Holland (ah, how I miss travelling!) I think I will look up these tulip gardens, as they look a fabulous place to spend some quiet time. Thanks for featuring it.
Once they are open again it surely won't be quiet in the Keukenhof :) I've visited the botanical garden near the Belvedere in Vienna, nice and pretty quiet.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this. A perfect way to destress for anyone who needs it.
My wife and I visited Keukenhof many years ago. I never thought of myself as a flower nut, but I went a little nuts that day. The colours and the arrangements were just incredible. People from all over the world were there taking it in. It was all so beautiful. If you can make it to the Netherlands in the right season, then definitely go the extra distance and visit Keukenhof.
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