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Gorse Hall Primary School – BEE

4th September 2019 4th September 2019 0

Last year in May, I did some drone footage for a local school, but due to the headmistress panicking over GDPR I was never allowed to share the images but she’s now had a change of heart after realising how much she overreacted, the kids saw the video in Assembly and apparently they still talk about the day the guy came with the drone and made it fun 🙂
The footage was in remembrance for the bomb attack in Manchester at the Ariane Grande concert.

We had a great day, the children were so well bahaved and listened to what we told them regarding Drone safety and rules.
When I spoke to the staff this year they had lost the original DVD we made for them, so we have recovered some of the data from our old backups and put them on a new DVD this week. I am hoping we get permission to share the videos, for now here are a couple of images where no faces can be made out, so were safe to share 🙂

Gorse Hall Primary School – BEE Formation 24th May 2018
Gorse Hall Primary School – BEE Formation 24th May 2018

Photography

Henley on Thames

29th April 2019 29th April 2019 0

Last year I went to a funeral in Woking, I stayed in the beautiful Henley on Thames at the hotel in the thumbnail. I last visited here around a decade ago on the way back from an Airshow in Farnborough where the A380 was being shown for the 1st time ever. Henly is a lovely historic place with plenty to see and do, especially if you like to row boats, you can travel on the river Thames.

I flew the drone in-between rain showers, and here is the footage 🙂 I hope you enjoy it.

Henley on Thames in December – it was beautiful.

Aerial Photography, Photography, Video

Out in our snow covered countryside.

2nd February 2019 2nd February 2019 0

Here in Manchester, England we had a bit of snowfall this week, so I took a bit of time off work to fly the drone over it. I managed to fly at Harsthead Pike without issue, but at Dovestones it was too windy to get the drone up unfortunately so I just took some photos instead.

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Inspirational Poster, Photography

If you can look at the sunset and smile

6th August 2018 6th August 2018 0

I’ve not made any posters for a while so thought I would do one this evening 🙂

Photo taken at Crosby Beach, Liverpool, England in April 2015.

Aerial Photography, Holidays, Photography, Video

Birthday weekend in Wales

31st July 2018 31st July 2018 0

It was my Birthday on the 18th of July, so on the weekend we decided to have a few days in Wales and see some more of the beautiful Welsh scenery.
We visited Bala, Porthmadog, Ffestiniog (on the train and by car), Criccieth, Ruthin and various other places in-between.
On the way to Porthmadog, our first stay we called in to some fisheries we have visited before, and had lunch, we met a lovely older couple called Barry & Sue and ended up chatting for ages to them – It’s always nice to meet new people and learn about them (there was no space for them to sit when they arrived so we invited them to our table, a nice habit we have, and it has made us some great friends here and in Asia, you should try it 🙂 )

Here are a few photos and then a 9 minute video of the journey, from the train, the car, the drone and the DSLR.

I hope you enjoy the photos and video and look forward to your comments.

Photography

Dragonfly in the garden today

26th May 2018 26th May 2018 0

I was at work until this afternoon and decided to do a little gardening while the sun was shining. Imagine my surprise when I spotted a Dragonfly sat atop my now headless tulips. After a few minutes he was still there so the camera was grabbed, at this point it had my most used Sigma 18-70mm Art Lens installed, a few shots later, he’s still there, so then I ran in and grabbed my Canon 300mm Lens with IS, I cracked off some more shots and then decided to get the Manfrotto tripod and the 100mm Sigma Macro lens, these shots are of course the best. I managed to get very close to him, he flew off a few times but came back, I even got that on video but the lens was on auto-focus so messed up a bit. I have been back out to get some better video but he’s nowhere to be seen, I just hope he returns tomorrow 🙂

Dragonfly in Garden 26th May 2018 0065 Taken on 2018/05/26 16:47:19

Dragonfly in Garden 26th May 2018 0021 Taken on 2018/05/26 16:38:31

Dragonfly in Garden 26th May 2018 0046 Taken on 2018/05/26 16:42:38

Dragonfly in Garden 26th May 2018 0006 Taken on 2018/05/26 16:37:24

Dragonfly in Garden 26th May 2018 0004 Taken on 2018/05/26 16:36:16

Dragonfly in Garden 26th May 2018 0031 Taken on 2018/05/26 16:39:29

Equipment Used

Canon EOS 7D MKII
Canon 70-300mm IS
Sigma 18-70mm Art
Sigma 100mm Macro
Manfrotto Carbon Fibre Tripod
360° Dome Cam (security light)
Patience…

Photography, Special Events

Haworth 1940’s Weekend

23rd May 2018 20th September 2018 0

Does anyone remember this photo?

I thought it was about 5 years ago, but it was 7 years ago, how time flies 😮

It was taken in Haworth at a 1940’s weekend, I was walking back to the car and saw this lady leaning in the doorway, the camera was off, so i quickly fired it up and snapped this lovely candid shot. The photo got thousands of likes on Social Media but I never found out who she was to give her a copy.
Last weekend (20th May 2018) at Howarth’s 40’s weekend, I was looking for this girl, I had almost given up on the hope of finding her when whilst sat having a brew, I noticed a girl behind my parents, I was not 100% sure it was her, so asked my Dad and he said he thought it may be her too, so I asked her, and YES, it was her 🙂 WOW, what are the chances? I now would like her to see this but forgot to ask her name – bloody crazy I know :p

Haworth May 2018 (1940’s Weekend) 0134 Taken on 2018/05/20

Aerial Photography, Photography

The eye from the sky

21st May 2018 27th June 2018 0

We had a nice drive out on Saturday with friends while the weather was great.
We went to a place we found the weekend before on the way to Wales with lovely fields of Gold (I think it’s Rapeseed?)
This is my favourite photo of the day 🙂