These shots show how social distancing can bring families together.
After the coronavirus pandemic forced a Lithuanian wedding photographer out of a job, he decided to use his talents to capture heartwarming drone portraits of families bonding during lockdown. The Eastern European nation recently announced that it would be under quarantine until April 13, LRT reports.
“I started this project to give people a chance to brighten their day in this negative corona information environment,” Adas Vasiliauskas tells Cover Images photo agency. He added that he wanted to illustrate how families keep themselves entertained while hunkered down for an extended period of time.
The result is a moving collection of long-distance snaps depicting families engaged in everything from sunbathing on terraces to coronavirus-inspired cosplay, which can be viewed on his website, tasfotografas.lt. Indeed, despite prompting an uptick in divorce rates and family tension, the COVID-19 quarantines have also inspired a host of creative virus-proof pursuits, like the New York parents who are penning hilarious “Frozen” song parodies for their kids.
The enterprising photog says that that the pictorial pursuit started humbly with a few shots of friends. However, the project took flight after “the photos gained a lot of likes.”
But his endeavor wasn’t without obstacles. “At first I thought of offering to shoot people with a telephoto lens,” says Vasiliauskas, who says he’s shot more than 250 weddings all over the globe during his 15-year career. “Then I remembered I use a drone in my wedding photography and the drone is a totally zero-human-contact way to capture things.”
Along with demonstrating that being holed up inside can be fun, the pic wizard also wanted to remind everybody to keep their social distance.
Vasiliauskas isn’t the first to employ aerial automatons during the global COVID-19 scourge. Quarantiners have memorably used drones to record once-bustling neighborhoods that have been turned into ghost towns due to the coronavirus. In a more unorthodox incident, a heartsick Brooklynite used an unmanned wingman to hit on a gal while in self-isolation. And a Cyprus man even used a drone to take his dog for a walk.
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