Notice the part I said about it being just 18 ft above the people.
Each post you make does come across more and more aggressive. I suggest if you want to convince people that drone users are not all irresponsible you should perhaps think about how it might invade somebody's privacy and peace and quiet.
Yes there are plenty of other ways people can be antisocial, some of them much worse, but I generally like to try and be courteous and neighbourly to the rest of the population.
Nature photographers have been around since the beginning of photography.
Yes, an SLR can be noisy, but honestly it's NOTHING compared to the noise of a buzzing drone.
Most landscape and nature photographers I know-myself included-tend to just keep to ourselves and be as invasive as possible. When photographing birds or many other types of animals, it's a requirement. I'd be pretty upset if I'd gotten up early and scoped out a good and safe but close spot to photograph whatever my animal of the day was and had a drone buzzing around.
BTW, it's not exclusive to photography. I fish in private lakes/ponds/areas of the creek because they're quiet. Aside from disturbing the fish, I want to be left to my own device.
I'm not much of a hunter, but being quiet is the rule of game too for most types of hunting.
Around here, there are plenty of places both on public and private land where being quiet is the expected etiquette. Buzzing drones do NOT play into that.
Drones are a relatively new technology, and that's especially true when we start talking about privately owned and operated ones. Folks who haven't been around them will have to adjust to them, but at the same time drone owners need to have consideration for the established norms of the places they're visiting/flying.
There's nothing illegal, for example, about me going to fishing lake and stomping around the bank or screaming and hollering, but it's poor etiquette if there are other folks there fishing(again even if on public land). Of course, if I'm on private land the owner can tell me to get lost, even if they've previously given me permission to be there. Drone owners/flyers need to learn that even if they are in the legal right, doing things counter to the established etiquette are NOT going to win them friends.
Aside from that, as in a lot of cases cited-if you're flying around outside my window or if I had a wife and/or daughter who was laying in the backyard sunbathing and your drone was flying around, you'd better believe I'd have something to say about it. Plus, at least in rural parts of Kentucky, I can pretty well a gun anywhere I want to provided that I have permission to do so on the property, am doing so safely(firing against an earth backstop, etc) and am not shooting an animal out of season and/or without the proper license. It would be a real shame if I was shooting at clays with a shotgun and just HAPPENED to mistake your drone for one...