Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust approached me at the start of 2022 hoping I could provide some aerial shots to be added to two films that they had commissioned as part of their Together for Trees project. I was delighted to oblige, as it gave me the opportunity to visit Malham… Read More »Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust – Together for Trees Stories
This Art Gene exhibition called “No More Hot Air” at the Nan Tait Centre in February 2022 follows on from the Food, Futures and Biodiversity event that I filmed the previous year. Much of the footage here was shot at the Preview evening and includes interviews with a number of… Read More »Art Gene – No More Hot Air Exhibition
This was a wonderful all day event that took place on Saturday 13th November 2021 at Walney Community Growing Space. I was naturally focused on getting footage of the artwork and from all the different talks and activities throughout the day to be able to put together a film that… Read More »Art Gene – Food, Futures & Biodiversity
I have had the very great pleasure of working with South Cumbria Rivers Trust to document the development of three river restoration projects since July 2018. The first project I started recording is in a valley to the north of Kendal. Bannisdale Beck feeds into the River Mint which then… Read More »South Cumbria River Trust – Bannisdale restoration
I was asked to work on this film project by Maddi Nicholson of Art Gene. It was produced as part of the funded cultural programme running alongside the High Street Heritage Action Zone project for which Barrow Borough Council received government funding from Historic England. This film stands apart from… Read More »Art Gene – Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness
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
Backbarrow Ironworks Heritage Trust approached me in 2019 to request an aerial video of the remaining buildings of the Ironworks which were in the final stages of being preserved. The video was to be featured on the updated website to promote visits to the historic site. I suggested a 360°… Read More »Backbarrow Ironworks
Yet another new challenge, to film the removal of an iconic but diseased tree in the grounds of Holker Hall, that was in danger of coming down. Greg Thompson Quality Tree Care was put in charge of the work for Holker Estates, and he contacted me at short notice to… Read More »Greg Thompson – Holker Hall Tree removal
The £5m Beehive Business Park sits to the South of Ulverston on the main A590 to Barrow-in-Furness road. Caddick Construction were the contractors and I was invited to return a number of times to record the work in progress. The film above, from July 2020, is my favourite showing the… Read More »Beehive Business Park – Ulverston
This restoration, completed as part of the Heritage Lottery funded Conserving Coniston & Crake project, has been a great success on a number of levels. with additional tree planting, the installation of artwork and the creation of a new weir as well as the redirecting of the stream. Atlantic Salmon… Read More »South Cumbria Rivers Trust – Greenholme Beck, Water Yeat restoration
An ambitious five year project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund has made the nature reserve more accessible and the land managed with wildlife as a priority. The aim is to show how the uplands can be managed for the benefit of the wider environment, through habitat and species… Read More »Cumbria Wildlife Trust – Eycott Hill restoration
This positive, celebratory event was organised by XR Furness to encourage the good people of Ulverston to to think about the Climate Crisis and the kind of future world we want for our children as we come out of the Covid-19 pandemic. The butterfly theme links to the concept of… Read More »XRFurness Events
