[HN Gopher] Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography
        
       Author : thekid314
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-02-19 05:46 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.daviddegner.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.daviddegner.com)
        
       | thekid314 wrote:
       | Consumer tech has improved so we can attach cameras to pigeons
       | again once again.
        
       | abricot wrote:
       | I guess that bird _could_ be spying on you. Jokes aside, this is
       | natural drone photography.
       | 
       | I can imagine you would be even more successful with targeted
       | photography from a trained bird.
        
         | thekid314 wrote:
         | Yeah, the targeted photography is my next step. I live in
         | Brooklyn, and my pigeon raising friend lives in Jersey, so if
         | we release the bird from the right place in Brooklyn we should
         | be able to get some interesting photos of Manhattan.
        
       | trhway wrote:
       | as drones are illegal in many places and are just targetted on
       | the battlefield like in Ukraine, I wonder when we are going to
       | get drones looking (and with time more and more behaving) like a
       | bird.
        
         | ttt11199907 wrote:
         | I hope not. Imagine how devastating conflict already is to the
         | environment. Now make every bird shoot on sight, just in case.
         | 
         | I guess ravens really are the dark one's eyes and ears!
        
       | hyperific wrote:
       | Now we just need a Prodigy - Smack My B Up pigeon parody
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/J1zYF0cejmg?si=3fIDDy19l1Pp7YRh
        
         | ksaj wrote:
         | I have a pet pigeon. My partner wants to do some sort of a
         | lifestyle video of him with little miniature kitchen, living
         | room, etc. Sorta like Martha Stewart, only with a black carrier
         | pigeon.
         | 
         | He comes running when called, and he really likes bossing the
         | dogs around, so I think we could actually do something like
         | this.
        
       | qwertox wrote:
       | Related: Some very old pigeon photography in a scrollable story
       | from Google Arts & Culture
       | 
       | https://artsandculture.google.com/story/julius-neubronner-an...
       | 
       | I appended `?hl=en` to force the selection of the English
       | language, you may want to remove it (it ignores `fr` or `es`, but
       | it is available in German).
        
       | imagetic wrote:
       | David Degner! What a legend.
        
       | troupe wrote:
       | In addition to spy photography, pigeons were being trained to
       | guide missiles at one point by pecking on a screen. Project Orcon
       | (for ORganic CONtrol) was the name of the program. It doesn't
       | appear to have been used for any actual bombings. The trainers
       | said their biggest issue was just getting people to take them
       | seriously. The project was canceled as electronic controls became
       | available.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-02-20 23:01 UTC)