“I started shooting after I saw some pictures in an issue of National Geographic Magazine about 10 years ago,” Palomski says.

“I borrowed a camera from my friend and just started taking photos but I never had any formal training.”

The resulting photos are truly stunning, showing Iceland’s snow-capped peaks, glaciers and wonderfully remote towns in all their glory.

The drone offered Jakub a chance to push his photography in a new and different direction to previously. But it presented challenges too. “Photographing by drone in my opinion is more difficult [than with a normal camera].”

“Mainly because you have unlimited in no way composition capabilities. The second difficult thing is that you have to focus not only on photographing, but also, and primarily on piloting drone safely.”

By virtue of having gone out and done it though, Jakub had to overcome many of the problems that even the most experienced pilots struggle with.

“The weather in Iceland is windy for the most of time, so that was a bit issue that prevented me flying safely. I also had a problem with birds attacking the drones twice,” Jakub says. But at least “I haven’t had any problems with people so far”.

This is perhaps unsurprising in this instance, as Iceland has a reputation not only as one of the most naturally beautiful places on the planet, but also one of the most welcoming.

That’s one of the biggest difficulties, he says, when doing drone photography. “You have to focus not only on photographing, but also, and primarily on piloting drone safely.”

It’s also one of the things that Jakub believes will make drone photography impossible in the future – ironically as the devices become more popular, so operating them will inevitably become more dangerous as the skies get more crowded.

“I think in years to come drones will become prohibited in many countries,” he says. “These are really powerful but also very dangerous tools.”

Whether or not Jakub’s predictions of drones being banned for public turn into reality, we hope the art of drone photography doesn’t die completely. Because images like these ones are incredible.

And much as the invention of more portable cameras allowed Ansel Adams, one of Jakub’s photographic heroes, to push the boundaries of landscape photography, so this new technology is allowing a generation of snappers like Polomski to pioneer a whole new style.

Here’s hoping we’ll see more of it in future.

See more of Polomski’s work on his website and follow him on Facebook to keep up to date with his latest projects.

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