It was highly educational for me to return once again to Eycott Hill Nature Reserve to visit with geologist Sylvia Woodhead, and to work with her to piece together this film looking at the history of the geology of this area. There is no doubt that taking the camera up… Read More »Cumbria Wildlife Trust – Eycott Rocks
Morecambe Bay Partnership – Headland to Headspace 2015-2018 – Heritage at Risk – Conservation at Birkrigg Common. Since 2015, Morecambe Bay Partnership has been working with volunteers and local organisations through the Heritage Lottery Funded Headlands to Headspace Landscape Partnership to clear vegetation from three nationally important archaeological sites. Their… Read More »Morecambe Bay Partnership, Birkrigg Bracken Clearance
These two lovely cottages are in a great location to the west of the Lake District, not far from Wast Water and Wasdale Head. I was very pleased to be asked to provide videos showing their location and interiors for the owner, and I was very fortunate in arranging to… Read More »Todd and Gunn Cottages – Wasdale
In August, Lake Coast and Dale Leisure contacted me about providing them with aerial photographs and an aerial video of their site just north of Carnforth, to be used to publicise their static holiday home business. Despite the close proximity of road and rail, I was able to safely acquire… Read More »Lake Coast and Dale Leisure – Carnforth
I think I should let Malcolm Fell, Director of Cumbria Kart Racing Club, tell you about this project: At Cumbria Kart Racing Club we had been looking for a way to promote our venue and club. We have been a karting venue for over 50 years, well known throughout the… Read More »Cumbria Kart Racing Club – Rowrah Circuit
An unusual, yet very rewarding assignment, in September and October was being asked to photograph the seal colony at South Walney on two occasions. Taking off at some distance, I flew the quadcopter straight up to 120 metres. With the wind taking the sound of the drone away from the… Read More »South Walney Nature Reserve – Seal Count
The properties owned by The Rowley Estates and rented out as holiday homes are truly stunning, and I enjoyed the challenge of producing promotional videos and photographs for them. The taster video above features all the holiday properties and further below are a selection of photographs and the seven videos… Read More »The Rowley Estates – Luxury Holiday Homes
It was a real pleasure to be asked to produce this aerial video to celebrate Jonathan Denby’s wonderful garden at Yewbarrow House in Grange-over-Sands. I was also able to provide a small collection of photographs of the properties and a 360° photograph which can be explored below. As with other… Read More »Yewbarrow House, Grange-over-Sands
Newby Bridge Hotel has many positive features and, after visiting the hotel, I felt that using aerial footage alone would really not do it justice. This resulted in me making a number of trips to get footage from various positions and heights. I visited at different times of the day to… Read More »Newby Bridge Hotel
I took some aerial photographs from above Heversham Hotel (formerly The Blue Bell Inn) earlier this year for the owners, Samuel Smith’s Brewery, while it was being renovated. There is a link on the hevershamhotel.co.uk website to the 360° photograph I created below: One of the photographs from above the hotel… Read More »Heversham Hotel
“Flight” was a moving theatrical performance that took place at Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre, from 7th – 10th July 2016. It was created as part of the nationwide 14-18 NOW celebrations. In the video below, Artistic Director Geraldine Pilgrim explains her ideas for the work. My contribution was to take a… Read More »“Flight” by Geraldine Pilgrim, Brockhole
I loved the challenge of creating this sweeping, single-shot aerial video for Lakeland to advertise their revamped flagship store in Windermere! At the time of writing, their version of this video has had 7342 views on their Facebook page!
