Australians in many cities have suffered through brutally long COVID-19 lockdowns over the past year, including one since June shutting Sydney residents within a five-kilometer radius of their homes. Now a filmmaker and drone pilot has produced a stunning ocean video within a restricted radius of the city’s coastline, featuring a local maritime star known as Alex the seal.
Nick Holton says he made his Locked Down in Planet Blue film to help distract Sydney residents – and thrill viewers elsewhere – with visual reminders of the beauty and diversity of ocean activity around the Bronte Beach area. To do so, he relied primarily on UAV footage he shot of people and marine life making the most of that stretch of coastline. The headliner of the drone video is a big, indeed larger-than-life Australian fur seal that residents call Alex, and who may just wind up an international star thanks to Holton’s homage.
The drone video manages the trick of being…
