Veteran newspaper photographer John Pavoncello has been eye-to-eye with all kinds of human drama.
In the short time his drone imaging business has been up and running, Pavoncello has gone above and beyond to record traumas faced by fire and law enforcement first responders.
But it was the sight of nature’s powerful force that he called “crazy.”
Pavoncello was contracted by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to fly his camera over a portion of the lower Susquehanna River after a week of relentless rainstorms in late July.
Pavoncello has seen the river at its beautiful best in spring, and bulging with damaging ice flows in winter. But never like this. The Susquehanna was an angry, swollen, chocolate-colored torrent. “You just don’t get the perspective standing along the bank,” Pavoncello said, thinking back on the magnitude of roiling, brown water.
This aerial perspective of the deluge of runoff illustrates powerfully the urgency that more solutions must be found on the ground.
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