SPLIT, Croatia
// 15 aerial photographs
SPLIT, Croatia from above: Diocletian's Palace by day and floodlit at night, Kašjuni's turquoise shallows, Trogir's walls and the Blue Lagoon's rafted boats.
SPLIT, Croatia is a drone session in flight_log: 15 aerial photographs, each one pinned where it was shot on a 3D reconstruction of the real terrain, built from elevation and map data.
SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (1 of 15) - Straight-down look at the Cathedral of Saint Domnius in Split, its pale stone bell tower and octagonal tiled dome rising from the dense terracotta rooftops of Diocletian's Palace, with crowds and rows of red chairs set out on the Peristyle below and the circular walled Vestibule courtyard in the foreground. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.51074740953776, 16.436190605163578 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 100 · f5.6 · 10mm.
SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (2 of 15) - Overhead frame of Kašjuni beach on the Marjan peninsula, a white pebble spit curving into deep blue and turquoise water, edged with rock armour and lined with parasols, sunbeds and parked cars, backed by the pine-covered slope of Marjan Forest Park. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.500658802113065, 16.439967155456547 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 200 · f2.8 · 10mm.
SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (3 of 15) - Top-down view of the Kašjuni shoreline below Marjan hill, its curved pebble beach packed with beige parasols and bathers, backed by the seafront road, dry scrub and dense pines, with dark seagrass patches mottling the clear turquoise shallows offshore. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.50314932396644, 16.443185806274418 on 2024-06-20. Exposure 100 · f3.5 · 10mm.
SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (4 of 15) - Low oblique over the stone old town of Trogir, the slender campanile of St Lawrence's Cathedral standing above orange tile roofs, with large white yachts moored along the palm-lined Riva and low green hills fading into haze under bright daylight. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.50271340666097, 16.42636299133301 on 2024-06-23. Exposure 100 · f3.2 · 10mm.
SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (5 of 15) - Straight-down composition splitting Split's ferry port — long concrete piers, ferries and a moored cruise ship — from the leafy hillside of red-roofed villas above Bačvice, where a milky turquoise bay and its shallow sandy beach fill the left of the frame. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.49910127068052, 16.43541812896729 on 2024-06-22. Exposure 100 · f5.6 · 10mm.
SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (6 of 15) - Wooden replica galleon of the kind that runs excursions along the Dalmatian coast, three magenta sails set and the Croatian flag at the masthead, white fenders along her hull as she cuts a thin wake across rippled deep blue open water. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.509405720754536, 16.42662048339844 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 100 · f3.2 · 10mm.- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (7 of 15) - Nadir view of the walled island core of Trogir, a tight grid of orange tiled roofs and narrow alleys around the small dome of St Lawrence's Cathedral, bordered by the tree-lined Riva and a harbour where small boats lie bow-on to the quay. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.50814495712659, 16.44037485122681 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 100 · f5.6 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (8 of 15) - Low oblique of Kamerlengo Fortress in Trogir, its weathered limestone curtain walls and tall round tower standing at the water's edge beside the bright green Batarija football pitch, with St Mark's Tower, palms and a small marina behind it and the red-roofed town rising toward the hills. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.512392649330195, 16.427049636840824 on 2024-06-23. Exposure 100 · f3.2 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (9 of 15) - Directly above the Blue Lagoon at Krknjaši off Drvenik Veli, where dozens of speedboats raft up along two narrow jetties in pale green and turquoise water, swimmers scattered through the clear shallows and a thin pebble beach backed by dark pines along the frame's edge. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.50666478988575, 16.424517631530765 on 2024-06-23. Exposure 100 · f3.2 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (10 of 15) - Tight overhead study of the Blue Lagoon moorings, white and coloured speedboats and RIBs packed either side of a slim wooden pontoon, their black canopies and open cockpits sharp against luminous turquoise water with rocky seabed patches showing through. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.510092120888224, 16.4326286315918 on 2024-06-23. Exposure 100 · f3.2 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (11 of 15) - Nadir frame over Diocletian's Palace in Split, the shingled octagonal dome of the cathedral and the round opening of the Vestibule set among orange roofs and courtyards, with Hrvojeva street, the palm-shaded Pazar green market and the boat-lined Riva along the edges. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.51121216230025, 16.444258689880375 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 100 · f5.6 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (12 of 15) - Straight-down view of the Blue Lagoon between the two scrub-covered Krknjaši islets off Drvenik Veli, water shading from pale turquoise over sand to deep blue, dozens of small white boats at anchor and a scattered village of red-roofed houses among trees at the top. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.49953840113855, 16.430525779724125 on 2024-06-23. Exposure 100 · f2.8 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (13 of 15) - Night frame over Diocletian's Palace, the floodlit bell tower of Saint Domnius and its dark octagonal dome rising above a maze of tiled roofs and narrow lanes, with the oval Vestibule courtyard glowing amber and street lamps flaring across the surrounding blocks. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.513236533003166, 16.43734931945801 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 1600 · f2.8 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (14 of 15) - Elevated view along Split's Riva under flat grey overcast, the palm-lined promenade and ferry quay edging pale calm water, with tightly packed orange-roofed buildings climbing toward the wooded cone of Marjan hill and hazy islands on the horizon. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.5071964049371, 16.444548368453983 on 2024-06-21. Exposure 100 · f7.1 · 10mm.
- SPLIT, Croatia - aerial drone photograph (15 of 15) - Overhead frame of speedboats and RIBs rafted along the wooden jetty at the Blue Lagoon, sunbathers on the decks and swimmers drifting in luminous green shallows, with a dark reef shadow spreading across the bottom of the picture. Aerial drone photograph over SPLIT, Croatia from 43.5045807887681, 16.431813240051273 on 2024-06-23. Exposure 100 · f3.2 · 10mm.