ST GALLEN, Switzerland
// 7 aerial photographs and 2 video clips
St Gallen, Switzerland by day and night: the twin-towered cathedral, the green Drei Weieren ponds and the glass SQUARE.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland is a drone session in flight_log: 7 aerial photographs and 2 video clips, each one pinned where it was shot on a 3D reconstruction of the real terrain, built from elevation and map data.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (1 of 7) - The pale glass SQUARE learning centre sits mid-frame, its stacked translucent boxes wrapped around planted green roofs and small sunken courtyards, with the dark-framed university library block and the low sports hall behind it. Allotment plots and mature trees fill the left edge, a curving road with parked cars the right, and a dense hillside town of pitched roofs and church spires recedes into flat overcast light. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.42884211107548, 9.375522136688234. Exposure 100 · f2.8.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (2 of 7) - Straight down over a green hillside meadow where rows of red and white striped festival tents line up beside a farmstead with a rust coloured roof. Below them a full size artificial football pitch and a long hall roofed in solar panels give way to a leafy quarter of villas, winding streets and dark copper beeches. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.427492084392746, 9.372003078460695 on 2024-05-30. Exposure 100 · f4 · 10mm.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (3 of 7) - Night over the lit city, a red Ferris wheel glowing above the rooftops while whole blocks are washed in magenta, violet and red light. The station's illuminated clock tower, a glass office high rise and a floodlit church spire stand out among the amber street grid, with dark wooded hills closing the horizon. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.421699641459384, 9.37512516975403 on 2025-08-01. Exposure 1970 · f1.8 · 9mm.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (4 of 7) - Straight down over the Drei Weieren bathing ponds, their deep green water framed by timber jetties and red roofed wooden bathhouses set along the dividing dam. Woodland and a smaller upper pond fill the left, while a strip of allotment gardens, bright spring meadows crossed by footpaths and scattered houses fill the right. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.421772232407164, 9.38035011291504 on 2024-04-27. Exposure 100 · f3.5 · 10mm.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (5 of 7) - Straight down on the medieval old town at night, the abbey precinct at the centre with the cathedral's cross shaped roof and the dark lawns of the Klosterhof lit only along their paths. Warm amber streetlights trace the ring road around a tight oval of unlit rooftops and narrow lanes, with wooded slopes going black at the top right. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.42400798458176, 9.377903938293459 on 2025-07-14. Exposure 1400 · f1.8 · 9mm.
ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (6 of 7) - Straight down on a rail corridor cutting diagonally across the frame, tracks and a glass roofed platform running beside a wide multi lane road marked with yellow crossings. Office blocks with solar panels and green roofs sit on one side, red tiled townhouses and parked cars on the other, under flat grey light. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.42339824340531, 9.37086582183838 on 2024-04-30. Exposure 100 · f4 · 10mm.- ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone photograph (7 of 7) - Straight down on the abbey precinct, the twin towered cathedral and the long ochre wings of the abbey library and former convent enclosing bright green lawns cut by pale gravel paths. Around it the old town packs in a mass of orange tiled roofs and narrow lanes, giving way on the left to wooded slopes, gardens and villas. Aerial drone photograph over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.423710373699386, 9.375211000442507 on 2024-05-19. Exposure 100 · f5 · 10mm.
- ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone video (1 of 2) - Straight down on the main station throat, several tracks spanning the frame between long platforms under glass and white canopies. Dark narrow gauge railcars with yellow doors stand at the lower platforms, a large brick building with ranked roof ventilators fills the top edge, and a road with a single tree sits at the bottom left. Aerial drone video over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.42554682376539, 9.370522499084474. Exposure 100 · f2.8.
- ST GALLEN, Switzerland - aerial drone video (2 of 2) - Close on a weathered stone fountain, its turned granite column and heavy rectangular basin catching low warm sunlight, thin jets arcing from two bronze spouts. Behind it a pale plastered facade with painted block quoins, a tall arched wooden door and clipped shrubs, all standing on damp cobblestones. Aerial drone video over ST GALLEN, Switzerland from 47.42487903115413, 9.376015663146974. Exposure 100 · f2.8.