How drones are being used by Sky Filming

aerial photography

We were very excited to be asked to aid in an inspection of a 70 meter, 230 feet, high historic chimney at Salts Mill in West Yorkshire. The building is a former textile mill built by Sir Titus Salt in the 19th century. It now houses an art gallery, various shops and restaurants making it […]

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This was a a local job for us, just on the other side of town from our offices, where we were asked by to capture some images from the ground and with a drone at specified angles, directions and heights. The subject was an empty plot of commercial land at York Monks Cross industrial estate, […]

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Some of our work with drones and various other types of cameras involves visiting construction sites and building projects on a monthly basis to document progress. For instance we have documented the contruction of power plants, from digging the foundations to actively generating energy, and various types of factory and warehouse. A year ago today […]

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As always it’s great to get some local work, especially at our favourite university, York St John. For this assignment we were tasked to get some aerial shots of some rooflights, skylights, from above a new building, the nicely designed York St John Creative Centre, for the company that installed these special windows that light […]

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It’s always great to be part of projects in our hometown, especially is that place happens to be York, a city full of historical buildings and architecture like The Guildhall. For the last couple of years The Guildhall York has been undergoing renovations, mainly to the roof but also to some new building work on […]

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Ferrybridge has been a location for power stations since the 1920s, with old technology being replaced by new several times over the decades. The currenct transformation is from the old coal fuelled plant to the two new multi-fuel power plants, one 64 mw plant already operational and another 90 mw plant next door, designed to […]

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Bruntingthorpe is a huge old airfield near Lutterworth in Leicestershire that is now home to a thriving automotive business community, vehicle testing and proving ground and open air aviation museum. All around the airfield runways, now a race track for testing cars and motorbikes, are buildings that house various businesses mostly connected to the automotive […]

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Dawson Wam, a large construction piling company based in Northern Ireland and operating all over the UK, began work at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire during July of 2018. Their works, a lot of which involves drilling and digging out deep holes for placing foundations for large buildings, industrial projects, bridges and anything […]

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Using drones and camera poles to inspect and survey factory and commercial roofing is probably in our top 5 most undertaken work, and for obvious reasons. It’s very easy to use a drone to photograph and video every inch of a roof and guttering, plus all the details such as chimneys and top hats, flues […]

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Occasionally, a lot less than you might imagine for an aerial photography company, we get asked to capture some images of large houses and interesting developments of old buildings such as this historic mill near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Most of our drone and video production work is either for the TV, corporate or construction […]

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