The initial system allows a photographer to set the width they want of the lit border on the subject, after which the drone then takes the appropriate place to create that effect with its on-board light.
Egan is so swift and funny, so light on her feet, that her reputation lingers on the borders of chick-lit, which might explain her omission from the Orange prize shortlist in favour of more earnest titles.
First place reflected a monumental moment in 2014 – lichtgrenze (border of light) – the name given to the 8,000 lit balloons where the Berlin Wall once stood, released on the 25th anniversary of its fall.
Elsewhere, Dreadzone transforms Us And Them into a skittering groove lit by delicate guitar arpeggios, while the Pink Floyd origins of Border Crossing's splendid Step It Pon The Rastaman Scene are virtually undetectable.
Soon each track begins to resemble a brightly lit canvas curated one after another, surrounded by the perfect white borders of the gallery wall.
Like his characters, Gifford's typically dialogue-driven books span the country, from the Mexican border to the shady back roads of the South, only occasionally brushing up against the better-lit world of the American mainstream.
Leonardo DiCaprio, his round baby face in extreme, adoring close-up, his hooded, elfin eyes mysterious in shadow, over-lit from above, and his soft lips tightened with resolve and framed by a wiry border of goatee hair.
