British photographer Margot Raggett chose the title Remembering Elephants very deliberately. It sounded premature, and that was exactly why it worked. Memorials are usually created after something has been lost. Her elephants were still alive. But the title forced people to confront the possibility that one day photographs might be all that remained. That idea stayed with me for a completely different reason. We tend to think about documenting places after something happens t

More companies are building internal drone programs, and in many cases that makes sense. The aircraft is available when needed, someone on staff knows how to fly it, and the team can quickly collect hundreds or thousands of images from a jobsite, facility, airport, or infrastructure project. The problem is that owning a drone program and producing trustworthy aerial data are not the same thing. A flight can be completed perfectly. The images can be sharp. The orthomosaic can