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Film - Blue Gold

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Password to watch : Cleddau

I’ve been out with the drone recently working with artist Tim Williams on a film about the River Cleddau here in Pembrokeshire. As with lots of watercourses in the UK, the Cleddau faces various threats from farm waste, industrial effluent and sewage. The idea was to follow the river, and the plight of piece of common plastic waste as it made its way from a small tributary to the open sea beyond Milford Haven. Tim conducted a number of interviews with long time users and observers of the river to make a record of their thoughts and memories of the river and their feelings about its plight. The river is a favourite part of the county for me, and often overlooked by visitors and locals alike. A spotlight is now beginning to be shone on it as part of a wider movement of concern for our waterways.

Interiors

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A few images from shoots for The Pembrokeshire Holiday Co for properties in Newport and Pontsian. Please get in touch if you would like a shoot to improve the appeal of your rental property. Quality photographs make a big difference to success especially in areas with plenty of other choices available.

Porthgain aerial

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I took the drone over to Porthgain to get some pictures of the harbour. I missed the light as after a sunny morning clouds had spilled in and made the light a little flat, but I liked the results. The coast around Porthgain is one of my favourite areas I think and as always it was interesting to get a different perspective on it. Harbours look great from above, I love seeing the shapes of the sea walls. The bare fields make the landscape seem rather barren but spring will be here soon enough and life will return to the soil.

Porthclais

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Some drone shots from Porthclais. Unusually for early January in Pembrokeshire it was calm and still with barely any swell. A true winter colour palette with empty fields and beaten down bracken.

Winter walk at Penycwm

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At the North end of Newgale is Penycwm beach. It’s a favourite spot of mine and also quite local to me so I regularly walk there or on the cliffs above. The drone allows a different view of the familiar and is a reminder of what a fantastic stretch of coastline it is that runs from here around towards St Davids. At low tide when the rocks on the beach are exposed it feels like a prehistoric landscape.

Woodland aerials

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I got myself a drone recently and have been experimenting with the new angles it offers. There’s a lot to learn about what subjects work best from a birds eye view and how best to use the drone to offer something more than just a new and unexpected viewpoint. Autumn down on the Cleddau estuary and I’d hoped to get some images of the snaking streams that form patterns in the mud there but the light was poor and the colours were unappealing. Once I flew over the woodland I loved the contrast between the coniferous and deciduous trees and explored where the two met.