How a drone can turn familiar landscapes into quiet, unfolding worlds


Photos By ANDREW TAN

A worker sitting among neatly-tied reeds arranged like a giant fan, which creates a perfect radial pattern visible only from the sky.

As the drone lifts and steadies itself at about 50m, the landscape doesn’t just change – it reveals itself.

What seemed flat moments earlier ­quietly opens up into curves, hidden lines and soft splashes of colour you’d never notice from the ground.

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