An aerial view of the Goose Lake Rock Festival that shows festival attendees and tents, Goose Lake, Michigan. The music festival attracted over 200,000 people during it's three day run between August 7 - August 9, 1970. Part of a series.
Aerial photos shot of cherry blossoms, the Washington, D.C., skyline, Alexandria and the D.C. area during the National Cherry Blossom festival, April 13, 2015. The planting of cherry trees started in 1912 with the gift of 3,000 cherry trees as a token of friendship to Americans from Japan, extending the essence of human life and the beauty of the "Sakura" to all who visit Washington, D.C., in early April. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace/Released)
It was almost immediately clear that the spring festival was going to be cancelled or moved to a later date. In recent years it had moved almost exclusively indoors, night after night filling clubs on Beach Avenue, as well as Cape May Convention Hall and Schmidtchen Theater at the Lower Township Performing Arts Center. Roughly 10,000 people would descend on Cape May between the spring and fall events, a number that was just not sustainable given the restrictions on the horizon.
An aerial data company recently used a Phase One aerial camera system to capture highly detailed photos of the famous Glastonbury Festival in England, where more than 200,000 people gather for five days each summer to enjoy performing arts.
While drones often capture aerial shots, UAV safety limitations prevented using uncrewed flying vehicles. Instead, DEA Aviation used a Diamond DA-42, a cost-effective, safe, and low carbon-emission aircraft.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic Woodstock Music Festival, which took place August 15-18, 1969 at a farm near Bethel, New York. The festival, billed as three days of peace and music, drew nearly half a million attendees and has become legendary in American history.
Although taken over 20 years before the iconic festival occurred, the area remained rural in 1969. The concert site was located at the crossroads just below the Filippini Pond, near the center of the exposure. The image below has been cropped and edited to show concert stage location and the concert field.
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Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is the largest tulip festival in the USA by acreage of tulips, number of farms, and days of blooms. The Tulip Festival features fields of tulips, display gardens, experiences, and events annually in April.
Q: Where is the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival held?
A: The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is designed as a driving tour. There is no one location, but there are four Tulip Farms and Growers you do not want to miss. The tulip fields are centrally located between La Conner and Mount Vernon. Events and happenings are all around Skagit Valley. The tulip fields are the crops of RoozenGaarde/Washington Bulb Co., Inc., Tulip Town, and Tulip Valley Farms. Because of crop rotation, the tulip fields are different each year. RoozenGaarde, Tulip Town, Tulip Valley Farms, and Garden Rosalyn also have displays of tulips in gardens for visitors to view and photograph. All the tulip bulb growers charge admission and have free parking.
Q: How much does it cost to go to the Tulip Festival?
A: To view the fields as you are driving by is free, but to enter Tulip Town, Roozengaarde, Tulip Valley Farms, and Garden Rosalyn, see above regarding tickets.
Q: What time does the Tulip Festival open?
A: You can view the tulip fields at any time! However, each bulb grower has different hours for the display gardens. See above for each garden display hours.
Q: Is there a printable map and listing of all the events?
A: Yes. You can view the printed map in the Skagit Valley Festival Brochure. Download here: Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Brochure 2023
In 2014, The Museum at Bethel Woods commissioned a Cultural Landscape Report to serve as a guide for stewardship and interpretation of the Woodstock festival historic site. Historic landscape architecture firm Heritage Landscapes, LLC performed studies of the site to create the report, which summarizes the history, current conditions, and recommended treatments of the historic property. Following the report, Bethel Woods is working to preserve a landmark of popular culture and bringing the place to life as an exciting destination for visitors to explore. You can view a copy of the report here.
When you think about archaeological digs, your mind might slip to the sand-covered landscapes of Egypt, or the ancient sites of long-dead civilizations. However, archaeology can interpret and uncover the more recent past, as is the case at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
To celebrate this aspect of festival history and bring to life the art, craft, and sense of joy embodied by the Bindy Bazaar and the Festival itself, Bethel Woods presents a large-scale public art installation located in the historical footprint of the Bindy Bazaar Trails. Artist Carol Hummel's work highlights the use of textile and color celebrated in the era through an expression and technique representative of today.
Producing an aerial imagery orthophoto of the 2023 Glastonbury Festival relied on provision of cost effective and environmentally friendly aircraft and camera solution to deliver a photogrammetric solution that successfully navigated aerial imaging options.
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, famous for its multiple days of music, poetry, and artistic performances. It famously began the day after Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 and has celebrated musical diversity nearly every year since.
Photographing this iconic event is a key priority for event organizers where more than 200,000 people gather to enjoy music across multiple stages at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Capturing aerial imagery is important for the organizers, as these images are used to review the staging positioning, and to plan future festivals across the vast, iconic area where Glastonbury is hosted each year.
From an aerial perspective, there was one major challenge. The project was outside of the scope of camera-mounted drone capture due to UAV safety restrictions and limitations; a heavier aircraft carrying large format camera (LFC) systems would have been prohibitively expensive and environmentally unfriendly. What was needed was a cost-effective, safe, and low carbon emission aircraft camera solution.
Flying at an altitude of 3,250ft Above Main Sea Level (AMSL) due to a local Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) restriction of 3000ft AMSL, resulted in a Ground Sample Distance (GSD) of 6.5cm. GSD is a metric used in aerial surveillance that determines the quality of the photograph, effectively the distance on the ground that would be visible to the observer.
Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England in most summers. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. The event has run for over 50 years commencing in 1970 on the Eavis family farm.
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Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Aerial view of the grounds of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. United States Newport Newport County Rhode Island, 2018. -07-29. Photograph.
Highsmith, C. M., photographer. (2018) Aerial view of the grounds of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. United States Newport Newport County Rhode Island, 2018. -07-29. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Aerial view of the grounds of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. -07-29. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, .
Besides the fun of wine tasting, perusing artisan vendors and enjoying awesome live music, Hook Lines and Singers also plans to keep its philanthropic spirit alive. In 2023, they donated roughly $20,000 to six regional charities. They aim to double this figure next year, giving you even more reasons to support the festival!
Burning Man kicked off this year on August 27 in Nevada's Black Rock Desert but slid into a soggy end to the weeklong event. Heavy rain settled about the festival's temporary city, Black Rock City, transforming the desert landscape into a mud pit.
More than half an inch (1.3 centimeters) of rain and possibly close to 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) fell this weekend in parts of northwest Nevada, which includes the area where the Burning Man festival was being held, said Mark Deutschendorf, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno.
On their website, organizers encouraged participants to remain calm and suggested that the festival is built to endure conditions like the flooding. They said cellphone trailers were being dropped in several locations Saturday night and that they would be briefly opening up internet overnight. Shuttle buses were also being organized to take attendees to Reno from the nearest town of Gerlach, a walk of about five miles (eight kilometers) from the site.
The traffic jam leaving the Burning Man festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered another day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days. (Sept. 6)(AP video by Monique Sady)(AP Video Production: Rod Jussim)
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