A series of four short videos were created to encourage people to leave a legacy to Cumbria Wildlife Trust. A different reserve was used for each of the stories. The challenge was to start with the view a visitor would have if they visited one of these reserves, but end with an… Read More »Cumbria Wildlife Trust – Legacy Campaign
Stuart Bastik and Maddi Nicholson of Art Gene commissioned Aerial Artwork to produce a film to document their impressive two part war memorial “One For Sorrow…” at North Walney. The challenge to capture the mood and unique location of the work was one to which I really enjoyed responding. I am pleased… Read More »Art Gene – Walney War Memorial
Annabelle Kennedy, Natural Heritage Officer at Morecambe Bay Partnership, originally contacted me in April 2016. Annabelle had recently created a new wetland site alongside the Gilpin River and wished to have aerial photographs taken over a period of time to show the progress of the area. Later that month I took… Read More »Morecambe Bay Partnership – New Wetland, Gilpin
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!
