Commercial photographer Vincent Laforet was sort of messing around at the Manhattan Beach Pier with his drone on New Year’s Day last year when he grabbed video of a thing that happens every day day, that’s sort of mundane in a way, that is actually quite beautiful from the right angle, at the right time of day, when you stop to notice it: a flock of birds taking flight over the ocean.
If you’re curious about the technical details of the shoot, you can read about them here on the photographer’s blog.
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