Drone photography.

[Nauti]

Recently bought a drone......worth considering as they open up a lot of photographic opportunities you may not otherwise have.

 

[Nauti]

This is St Lawrence church in a place called Bidford on Avon in Warwickshire,England.It dates from the 1200's with one part being from the 1100's.To the right of the church down by the river,was the original crossing of Ryknield street (now ickneild street),the original ford used by Roman soldiers and Roman citizens to cross the river.

 

[Nauti]

This is St Leonards church in Beoley,warwickshire,England.Dating back to the Norman period in the 1100's but built on the site of an earlier saxon church.The fields surrounding the church were detected by a friend of mine and myself with Saxon,Roman and Medieval artefacts being found as well as many Georgian and Victorian finds.
The other photo shows what is left of a hilltop fortification directly opposite the church,probably an early wooden structure which later became a fortified manor house.The trees surounding the site hide 20 foot deep ditches which would have made it difficult to attack.The gap in the trees seen at the bottom right was probably the entrance to the site.As of now,no archeological dig has taken place at the site.

 

[Odanscoils]

Man that's cool.

 

[Odanscoils]

Here's a thermal image I took of a friend and myself. Oh and his pooch Molly.
Big buck and coyote stalking my neighbors sheep

 

[Nauti]

How did you do that,what gear did you use.

 

[Nauti]

This is Bordesley Abbey....most of what is left is still under the field and has not been excivated.It was built in the 1200's and was out of use by the late 1500's.The grid like structure to the right of the main ruins was the Abbey infirmary.The stone coffin was the final resting place of a man called Guy De Beauchamp,Earl of Warwick,who died in the early 1300's,the other two coffins in the floor of the Abbey were likely to be the resting places of two highr ranking monks who served at the Abbey.
The other photos show the site of a chapel which served the Abbey......the flat area to the left of the redwood tree,to the right of the tree is an ancient graveyard that dates back to the 1500's........one headstone can easily be read with the date 1635.Most of the headstones were made from the rubble of the abbey when it was demolished in the 1500's and were burials of poorer people who couldn't afford properly made grave markers.

 

[Odanscoils]

How did you do that,what gear did you use.

I'll pm you.

 

[Odanscoils]

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This is Bordesley Abbey....most of what is left is still under the field and has not been excivated.It was built in the 1200's and was out of use by the late 1500's.The grid like structure to the right of the main ruins was the Abbey infirmary.The stone coffin was the final resting place of a man called Guy De Beauchamp,Earl of Warwick,who died in the early 1300's,the other two coffins in the floor of the Abbey were likely to be the resting places of two highr ranking monks who served at the Abbey.
The other photos show the site of a chapel which served the Abbey......the flat area to the left of the redwood tree,to the right of the tree is an ancient graveyard that dates back to the 1500's........one headstone can easily be read with the date 1635.Most of the headstones were made from the rubble of the abbey when it was demolished in the 1500's and were burials of poorer people who couldn't afford properly made grave markers.

So cool to have those sites around you.
Keep on a posting.

 

[Odanscoils]

How did you do that,what gear did you use.

Drone images.

Welp to get the images to load here.
I took a phone photo of the image on my laptop which I download my drones SD card to.
Then I still had to crop out the drone flight data in the image to make it small enough to load here.
Still can't figure out those images sizing apps you mentioned.

The coyote and deer were with onboard night vision camera at 300' using the onboard IR illuminator.
I can't see it at all.
Though that coyote sure did.
Must have tried 50 shots to get that one.
Everytime the IR light hit him he moved.
Finally got behind him and got the shot.
Didn't know they could see that light.
Completely invisible to humans.

 

[Nauti]

Brilliant technology,makes you wonder how many government drones are flying out of earshot keeping an eye on us.