Gerard Closset learned of drone photography while on a photo safari trip to Vietnam in 2018, but he didn’t think much of it. Drones were a “novelty” or a gadget, but then the man showed Closset and his wife Nicki pictures he had taken of the local bay and of rice paddies, and Closset was hooked.
“I was really impressed,” Closset said. When they came back to America he bought a similar drone and started taking pictures on Block Island and other places. While looking at the photos he realized two things: one, a book of Block Island pictures from the vantage point of above had never been done, and two, in order to your drone photos “you have to be a certified FAA pilot. I took a course and became FAA certified last year.”
The result is a book of new images taken from a drone’s eye view called “Block Island Revealed: A Perspective From Above” that offers the reader a tour from the southern bluff-edged side of the island all the way to Sandy Point, with dozens of stops in between.
“Light is very important,” said Closset, in his gentle French accent (he was born in
