The full set of aerial
aerial pictures from our Lanzarote trip in April and May this year.
You can find the gallery
by clicking on the Playa Blanca panorama below.
3/7/22
Yesterday afternoon
I set off for a walk in a new location for me - yes, even after 30+ years
living on the island I can still find new places to explore! It was
Stony Mountain Plantation, near Foxdale and I had a few 'targets of interest'
picked from the maps that I was hoping to visit. It turned out to
be one of the hardest and most exhausting walks I'd been on for quite a
few years, mainly due to the lack of tracks, leaving me to fight my way
though woodland and heath.
Panasonic TZ72 &
DJI Mini 2 2/7/22
    
    
    
 
    
    
   
4/7/22
Ships of the Isle of
Man Steam Packet, pictures taken from Birch Hill, Onchan. 2/7/22
& 3/7/22 Nikon D7100
   
There are six new Aircraft
pictures in Aircraft
2022 Pt 3
    
5/7/22
There are twenty three
new Railway pictures taken yesterday afternoon, in Railways
2022 Pt 3
    
8/7/22
Yesterday afternoon
I had the pleasure of taking a walk around some areas of the Ballaugh Curragh
wetlands area with the very knowledgeable Liz Charter. Sixteen years
ago, to the day, we had done the same to help publicise the international
recognition of the area under the RAMSAR
convention by taking photographs that would end up on posters.
Both of us have since retired from our respective government jobs but were
interested to see what changes had happened over the years. We were trying
to visit the same locations as in 2006, not that easy as we were relying
on memory and also eventually ran out of time. You can see some of
the 2006 pictures in the 'Ballaugh
Curragh through the Seasons' website page, in the Summer section.
Nikon D7100 & DJI Mini 2 7/7/22
    
    
    
    
    
   
 
There are five new Aircraft
pictures in Aircraft
2022 Pt3
    
9/7/22
Evening sky from home.
Nikon D7100 7/7/22
One from yesterday evening
10/7/22
Having seen pictures
posted on Facebook of the blue fields of Flax (Linseed) growing on the
plain of the island, I thought that I would try for some aerial shots of
it yesterday afternoon. The first location I tried was at Sulby,
where there are a couple of large fields of it. Flax used to be an
important crop, Linseed Oil can be obtained from the seeds and the fibres
were used to make Linen. Indeed, on the 1870 Ordnance Survey map
there was a flax mill at Sulby.
DJI Air 2S & Nikon
D7100 9/7/22
    
   
    
  
11/7/22
I'd heard that here
were more fields of flax in the Andreas area, but I didn't see any sign
of them and continued on to Bride, where there was apparently one on the
Point of Ayre road. I found that but the colours weren't as striking as
the Sulby ones so I took a few aerial shots and panoramas of the village.
DJI Air 2S 9/7/22
    
 
After Bride I was heading
west to the coast, but had a quick stop at the Lhen Trench to shoot a panorama.
This is a glacial feature, cut by ice melt water, but later excavated to
drain the curragh (wetlands area) for agricultural use.
 
After the quick Lhen
Trench shoot, I continued to where the river enters the sea at The Lhen
   
12/7/22
On Sunday afternoon
I decided to visit the shoreline at Lady Port, on the west coast north
of Peel. This needs a bit of planning as most of the beach there
is water covered apart from around 2 hours either side of low tide.
The is no defined path down to the beach and it's rather steep an uneven,
not helped at this time of the year by extensive bracken growth, ranging
in height from waist to chest level. I was using my GoPro as main
camera, although I had the DJI Mini 2 in my rucksack, but wasn't confident
that I would be able to fly it as there are normally a lot of Herring Gulls
on the cliffs there, who might take exception to a drone!
GoPro Hero 9 & DJI
Mini 2 10/7/22
    
    
   
 
    
    
14/7/22
Whilst I was on the
Lady Port walk, I had a message from a friend to say that I might be interested
in photographing a yacht that had run aground on the beach at Sartfield,
near Jurby. So after getting back to the car I headed north to have
a look. Being there also allowed me to photograph an ancient site
that I'd only managed from a distance before , the tumulus of Cronk ny
Arrey Lhaa (not to be confused with the hill of the same name much further
south). It's a pre-Christian burial mound located rather close to the clifftop
not far from Jurby Church, but apart from that I have no further information.
DJI Mini 2 10/7/22
    
    
There are two new Aircraft
pictures in Aircraft
2022 Pt 3. Nikon D7100 11/7/22
 
There are eight new
Railway pictures in Railways
2022 Pt 3. GoPro 9 12/7/22
    
15/7/22
I've had a fascination
for maps and what they can show you, since my brother David taught me how
to read and interpret an Ordnance Survey map when I was around 10 or 11
years old. These days I often use them to search out interesting
areas for aerial photography and the one below is exactly that. On
the 1870 OS 'six inch' map there is an area near Ballaugh marked as 'Dollagh
Mooar' with two lakes shown, on the current maps that I have the lakes
were still there but the area of Dollagh Mooar seems to have been lost
over time, although there is still a Dollagh Mooar Road. DJI Air
2S 14/7/22
    
   
 
16/7/22
The Church and the Shipwreck.
Having a long chat with
fellow drone pilot Peter Killey after a chance meeting at the previous
flying location, I decided to head northwards to Jurby Church to see if
I could get shots of both the church and the 'Pasages' shipwreck that is
just off the coast there. DJI Air 2S 14/7/22
    
    
   
 
  
17/7/22
I was actually on my
way back home from shooting the pictures at Jurby Church, not far away
having just past Jurby Airfield on the Ballavarren Road, when I wondered
if the fields in that area might make for some interesting pictures.
So I stopped for a quick flight there and also included the airfield.
DJI Air 2S 14/7/22
    
 
Three pictures of the
moon, shot at different dates this month. Nikon D7100 7/7/22, 10/7/22
& 16/7/22
  
Northern Lighthouse
Board support vessel 'Pharos', anchored in Douglas Bay. Nikon D7100
16/7/22
  
18/7/22
A quick flight at Keristal
yesterday afternoon before a walk back along the Marine Drive as far as
Port Wallberry.
DJI Mini 2 17/7/22
    
19/7/22
A second flying location
from our walk on Sunday afternoon, at Port Wallberry with its rock arch.
DJI Mini 2 17/7/22
    
    
 
20/7/22
Yesterday afternoon
I decided to take the sit-on kayak out for a trip, starting from Port Soderick
and heading to the north. I didn't get quite as far as I'd hoped,
due to worries about the weather changing on me. GoPro Hero 9 19/7/22
    
    
21/7/22
A few pictures from
different locations taken yesterday afternoon. A very windy day,
it was difficult to keep the camera steady for the panorama shots!
Nikon D7100 20/7/22
   
 
There are twenty six
new Railway pictures, taken yesterday evening on the Groudle Glen Railway,
in Railways 2022 Pt 3.
Nikon D7100 20/7/22
    
23/7/22
There are twenty new
Railway pictures in Railways
2022 Pt 3 Nikon D7100 23/7/22
    
25/7/22
There are twelve new
Railway pictures in Railways
2022 Pt 3 Nikon D7100 24/7/22
    
26/7/22
Nine more new Railway
pictures in Railways 2022
Pt 3 Nikon D7100 25/7/22
    
29/7/22
Some aerial pictures
flying from three locations around the northern side of Douglas on Wednesday
morning. DJI Mini 2 27/7/22
    
 
    
    
    
   
30/7/22
A walk around Langness
on Wednesday afternoon. Panasonic TZ60 27/7/22
    
    
    
    
    
31/7/22
OnThursday afternoon
I re-visited Derbyhaven Bay, but this time on my own with the sit on Kayak.
GoPro Hero 9 28/7/22
    
    
I took these pictures
on my phone as we were walking around Langness on Wednesday afternoon.
Processed on the phone using Snapseed's 'Drama' filter and then uploaded
to Facebook as we were walking. I rather like them though so here
they are! Samsung Galaxy A71 27/7/22
    
1/8/22
There are twenty two
new Railway pictures in Railways
2022 Pt 3 Nikon D7100 & DJI Mini2 29/7/22
    
Five more Railway pictures
in Railways 2022 Pt 3
Panasonic TZ60 31/7/22
    
There are four new Aircraft
pictures in Aircraft
2022 Pt 3. Panasonic TZ60 27/7/22 &31/7/22
   
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