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This collection features photographs I have captured from my drone. Whilst being in the fog is extremely rewarding, I find getting the drone up above the mist is where you can often see magic unfolding. Watching the sun pierce the mist, or seeing hoar frosted trees from above gives that unique perspective I love. This has become an absolute must to carry in my photography bag wherever I go, and I hope this gallery shows you why.

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Aerial view of a regenerating hillside forest above Arco da Calheta, Madeira, where bleached standing deadwood rises through spring fog alongside vivid new-season understorey growth. The interplay of pale skeletal trunks against emergent green, softened by rolling cloud, gives the scene an uncommon graphic tension. A single bird â faint in the mist â anchors the scale without demanding attention.

After the Fire From £55

A vivid primary rainbow descends into dense mixed woodland above the Thames Valley, viewed from elevation on an unsettled May afternoon. Rain still falls visibly at mid-distance while low sun catches the canopy, creating a sharp tonal divide between lit and shadowed tree cover. The elevated vantage compresses the rolling patchwork of fields and woodland into a single plane beneath the arc.

Rainbow Over the Weald The Chilterns From £55

A temperature inversion buries the Thames Valley beneath a flat sea of cloud at dusk, the gibbous moon suspended in a sky grading from powder blue through rose to lavender. Shot from elevation above Abingdon-on-Thames, the compression between cloud ceiling and clear upper atmosphere creates a horizon line of unusual stillness. The near-total absence of hard edges gives the frame a quality closer to watercolour than photography.

Moon Above the Cloud Sea The Chilterns From £55

A primary and secondary rainbow descend into a boreal pine forest on the Cairngorm plateau as a curtain of virga sweeps across the massif. The aerial vantage isolates the full arc against a bruised cumulonimbus base, with snow-capped summits visible through a break in the weather to the east. Spring snowpack on the high ground confirms the season.

Virga and Two Rainbows Cairngorms National Park From £55

A vivid primary rainbow terminates above boreal forest in the Cairngorms, its arc set against the dark mass of a fast-moving convective storm. Snow-patched mountains anchor the middle distance while virga curtains the left frame, the aerial vantage isolating the optical phenomenon with unusual clarity.

Rainbow Over Cairngorms Cairngorms National Park From £55

A virga curtain sweeps across the Cairngorm plateau as a vivid rainbow grounds itself at the forest edge near Aviemore. The juxtaposition of precipitation shaft, snow-patched summit, and saturated spectral arc within a single frame captures a fleeting atmospheric collision rarely framed with such compositional weight. Aerial elevation compresses the layers â boreal forest, moorland, mountain and sky â into a single dramatic plane.

The Rainbow Grounds Cairngorms National Park From £55

A primary rainbow descends vertically through the frame toward the Scots pine canopy of Strathspey, with the Cairngorm plateau visible beneath a retreating storm. The aerial vantage isolates the base of the bow with unusual precision, compressing forest, open strath, and mountain into a single coherent plane. Warm lateral light catches the treetops against the bruised clouds behind.

Arc Over Rothiemurchus Cairngorms National Park From £55

A compressed aerial view of mixed conifer and birch forest on the slopes above Aviemore, Cairngorms, in early spring. A narrow corridor of birch runs vertically through the frame, their bare white stems and russet crowns cutting through the surrounding Scots pine. The image reads as near-abstract pattern, the tonal contrast between evergreen and deciduous species its sole drama.

Canopy in Transition Cairngorms National Park From £55

A double rainbow descends into the Scots pine forest of Strathspey, its feet converging near the treeline as a squall clears over the Cairngorm plateau. The aerial vantage compresses the full arc geometry against a bruised cumulonimbus, with raking low sun warming the canopy below. Captured at dusk in April above Aviemore.

Double Arc, Cairngorms Cairngorms National Park From £55

A vivid primary rainbow descends through the base of a storm cell above the Thames Valley near Henley, its foot illuminated by a shaft of low evening light breaking beneath the advancing cloud. The aerial vantage compresses the arc against a dark curtain of rain, while spring fields and deciduous woodland spread beneath in fresh growth. The convergence of storm shadow and spectral colour gives the image an uncommon intensity.

Arc Over the Valley The Chilterns From £55

Christ Church College seen from altitude at late-afternoon golden hour in early spring, its quadrangle lawn and central fountain sharply resolved against the honey-coloured limestone of Oxford's medieval core. The warm haze softens the city's edges without obscuring the collegiate geometry that defines the foreground.

City of Dreaming Spires Oxford From £55

The symmetrical courtyard of Christchurch College, resolves from directly overhead into a geometry of limestone colonnades and circular lawn paths centred on a small fountain. Shot in flat spring light on 22 March, the overcast sky strips the scene of shadow drama but renders the Cotswold stone evenly, emphasising pattern over atmosphere. The image is competent and well-framed but reads as architectural documentation rather than a distinctive aerial landscape.

Christchurch Quad From Above Oxford From £55

The dome of the Radcliffe Camera intrudes into the lower frame as a drone directly above traces the formal geometry of Radcliffe Square, Oxford. Circular gravel paths divide four quadrants of close-mown lawn, converging on a central fountain pool. The flat March light suppresses shadow and reduces the scene to near-diagrammatic form.

Christchurch College from Above Oxford From £55

A cormorant spreads its wings from a bare oak standing in the River Thames near Wallingford, as a temperature inversion floods the valley with warm morning mist. The aerial perspective collapses foreground and distance into layered planes of silhouetted canopy and pale water, the bird providing a precise focal anchor within the abstraction. Captured at the spring equinox, when leafless trees retain enough transparency to hold the composition without closing it.

The Cormorant's Oak The Chilterns From £55

River mist lifts from a wooded meander near Abingdon-on-Thames on a frost-sharp spring morning, the still-bare willows catching low warmth while ground fog pools in the curve of the channel. A footbridge emerges briefly through the vapour on the eastern bank, anchoring the composition without disrupting its dreamlike quality. The aerial vantage reveals the geometry of frost-bleached pasture surrounding the island of trees.

River Mist Rising Thames Valley From £55

Ground mist pools and breaks across a wooded valley near Wallingford on a March morning, the low sun catching the fog from behind to separate warm and cool tones across a single frame. Bare and evergreen canopies emerge at different heights through the inversion layer, giving the scene an uncommon sense of depth and movement. The aerial perspective dissolves conventional landscape structure into something closer to ink and breath.

Unravelling The Chilterns From £55

A temperature inversion fills the Thames Valley near Wallingford at dawn, submerging the hedgerows and field boundaries beneath a continuous fog layer. Bare-limbed trees puncture the surface in loose diagonal lines, casting crepuscular rays that radiate across the mist in warm, directional light. The elevated drone perspective compresses the receding treelines into layered planes, rendering the familiar agricultural landscape briefly unrecognisable.

Rays Across Wallingford Thames Valley From £55

The setting sun drops beneath a thin band of cloud above the Thames Valley, its disc diffused by haze into a soft corona of amber and mauve. Captured by drone near Abingdon-on-Thames in early March, the image records a moment of atmospheric optical separation rather than a conventional sunset composition.

Sun Below Haze Thames Valley From £55

A temperature inversion buries the Thames Valley beneath a rolling sea of low cloud near Abingdon-on-Thames, the upper surface catching the last warm tones of a March sunset. Striations across the cloud top suggest gentle airflow, giving the otherwise featureless mass a quiet structural rhythm. The gradient from cool blue below to peach and teal at the horizon holds the eye without a conventional anchor point.

Valley Beneath Cloud Thames Valley From £55

Bare trees crown Brightwell Barrow, a chalk hill near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, as low winter sun rakes across frost-covered ploughed fields and ground mist pools in the Vale of White Horse beyond. The aerial vantage compresses receding layers of hedgerow, fog, and distant downland into a single coherent plane of light and shadow. Long tree shadows crossing the lower field anchor the foreground and give the composition its quiet geometric tension.

Frost and Furrow Brightwell Barrow From £55

A small copse of bare-limbed trees emerges from a low temperature inversion rolling across arable fields on the slopes of Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, photographed from altitude at first light in January. The mist moves in layered bands, backlit by a low winter sun, reducing the surrounding farmland to tonal abstraction. The isolated stand of trees anchors the composition as the sole vertical element in an otherwise formless, luminous ground.

Island in Fog Brightwell Barrow From £55

A small copse on Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, emerges from a shallow temperature inversion across the farmland, January 2026. Low winter sun catches the fog from the east, reducing the landscape to a single silhouetted subject against a field of luminous amber. Tractor lines in the crop below anchor the image to the agricultural plain being consumed by the mist.

Above the Amber Brightwell Barrow From £55

A small cluster of bare winter trees at Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, emerges from a shallow fog inversion above arable farmland. Shot from directly above at low altitude, the trees cast a long shadow through the mist toward the viewer, anchoring the composition against a sea of warm golden vapour. The diagonal tension between fog layers and the singular dark form gives the image an abstract quality rare in aerial landscape work.

Emerging at Brightwell Brightwell Barrow From £55

Low winter sun rakes across ploughed downland at Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, casting long tree shadows across frost-touched fields while a temperature inversion holds mist in the vale below. The copse crowning the barrow acts as a focal anchor against the layered vapour and the familiar wooded ridge beyond. The compression of light, shadow, and mist across multiple planes gives the scene unusual depth for a hand-held moment.

Valley Inversion, January Brightwell Barrow From £55

A temperature inversion pools valley mist between forested ridges near Aviemore, the Cairngorms, on a December morning. A solitary monument crowns the nearest wooded hill, its silhouette the only vertical interruption in a composition built entirely from receding planes of light and atmosphere. The distant Highland peaks dissolve into a warm, pale sky, compressing depth into something almost painterly.

Ridges Before Dawn Cairngorms National Park From £55

Ancient Scots pines cling to the frost-silvered slopes above a river pool in the Cairngorms, photographed from the air at winter dawn. Low raking light picks out the twisted bark and lichen-pale branches of the foreground tree against a valley still pooled in blue shadow. The receding ridgelines dissolve into warm haze, giving the scene an unusual depth for high winter.

Scots Pine, River Dee Cairngorms National Park From £55

A hoar-frosted silver birch stands at the margin of a still loch in the Cairngorms, photographed from above the canopy in the cold blue light of a December morning. The mirror-calm water flattens to a near-abstract wash of deep royal blue behind the white-etched canopy, stripping the scene to pure form and tone. The aerial perspective removes any horizon, leaving tree and water as the only subjects.

Frozen by the Loch Cairngorms National Park From £55

At first glance, this tree looks to be standing on a hilltop, covered in hoar frost, backed by a beautiful deep blue sky. However, on further inspection it becomes clear it has fallen onto it's side into a remote Scottish Loch. This was captured in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, on a bitterly cold winters morning, in December 2025. Whilst it was well below freezing, the water had not frozen as it was the first day of this cold spell.

The Fallen One Cairngorms National Park From £55

A heavily frosted birch emerges above a temperature inversion in Strathspey, Cairngorms National Park, December 2025. The mist pool fills the valley floor while a conifer-clad ridge recedes into cloud above, compressing the scene into a near-monochromatic study of cold and stillness. The aerial vantage isolates the dominant tree against the white atmosphere without reducing it to abstraction.

One Birch Above the Inversion Cairngorms National Park From £55

A cluster of birches, heavily rimed with hoarfrost, rises above the calm surface of a loch near Aviemore in the Cairngorms. Shot from altitude in the blue pre-dawn light of a December morning, the white canopy reads almost as smoke against the steel-blue water. The frost-covered woodland and open fields of the valley floor recede quietly into the distance.

Hoarfrost, Still Water Cairngorms National Park From £55

A grove of mature oaks stands heavily rimed with hoarfrost on the floor of Strathspey, Cairngorms National Park, December 2025. The warm ochre of dead bracken beneath provides the only colour against a near-monochrome scene of frosted understorey and hill fog rolling off the slopes above. The elevated drone position reveals the full extent of the frost event across the valley floor.

The Rimed Oaks Cairngorms National Park From £55

A temperature inversion settles over Caledonian pine forest near Boat of Garten on a December dawn, hoarfrost silvering every canopy while low cloud fills the valley floor. The clearing at centre draws the eye through the frozen trees toward the Cairngorm plateau, its ridgeline lit by the first pale warmth of a winter sunrise. The aerial vantage reveals the fog pooling along drainage channels invisible from the ground.

Frost and Inversion, Strathspey Cairngorms National Park From £55

A low winter sun catches the leading edge of a frost-covered conifer plantation above Aviemore, the warm raking light dissolving into cold hoar-grey as the eye moves deeper into the fog. Shot from above on Christmas morning, the image reads as near-abstract â a clean diagonal boundary between light and shadow bisecting the forest canopy. The Cairngorms plateau holds its habitual inversion, compressing the atmosphere into a single luminous band.

The Frost Line Cairngorms National Park From £55

A temperature inversion buries the boreal forest around Nethy Bridge beneath rolling fog on a Christmas dawn, frost-whitened conifers emerging in successive ridges from the mist. The warm apricot horizon separates cloud sea from sky, with distant summits reduced to silhouette. The aerial vantage compresses the layers into a composition of quiet, almost graphical precision.

Inversion, Cairngorm Fringe From £55

A temperature inversion fills the Spey valley at dawn on Christmas morning, submerging frost-laden boreal forest beneath a still sea of fog. A single ridge of conifers breaks the surface mid-frame, anchoring the composition between the blue cold below and the amber afterglow above the Cairngorm hills. Captured from altitude above Nethy Bridge, the layering of tone and depth is precise without artifice.

Inversion, Nethy Bridge Cairngorms National Park From £55

A temperature inversion floods the Spey Valley with cloud on a December dawn, leaving the crowns of a boreal conifer forest breaking the surface like dark archipelagos. Distant fells emerge as silhouettes above the fog layer, set against a sky moving through pink and pale gold in the minutes after first light. The shot was captured by drone above Nethy Bridge, within the Cairngorms National Park.

Islands in the Inversion Cairngorms National Park From £55

A temperature inversion fills the Spey Valley on Christmas morning, submerging the low ground in dense fog while successive ridgelines recede into haze above Boat of Garten. The monochrome conversion distils the scene to pure tonal recession, with a hilltop structure â possibly a monument â emerging as the sole punctuation in the middle distance. Aerial elevation reveals the full depth of the layering in a way unavailable from the valley floor.

Valley Beneath Cloud Cairngorms National Park From £55

Crepuscular rays break through storm cloud above a Scottish loch near Pitlochry, casting raking winter light across still water and silhouetted hill flanks. The elevated viewpoint compresses the valley, aligning the loch's surface reflections with the source light in a single receding axis. Shot on Christmas Eve at low solar elevation, the geometry of cloud, mountain and water is unusually resolved.

Rays Over the Loch From £55

Low winter fog pools across frost-hardened floodplain fields beside the Thames near Abingdon, held in place by a sharp temperature inversion. Riparian trees on the wooded margin catch the first warm raking light from the south-east, their amber canopies standing clear above the mist while isolated hedgerow trees trail long shadow-wakes across the blue-white fog surface below. The diagonal edge between lit woodland and submerged plain carries the composition with controlled tension.

The Fog Line Thames Valley From £55

A temperature inversion fills the valley floor with dense fog while bare woodland emerges at the cloud margin, near Wallingford on the Oxfordshire Downs. A lone tree group crowns the distant hill in silhouette against a pale winter dawn sky. The foreground mist, lit from below, separates into distinct layers that give the scene unusual depth and spatial ambiguity.

At the Cloud Margin The Chilterns From £55

A temperature inversion smothers the Thames valley near Abingdon at first light, leaving trees in full autumn-to-winter transition stranded above a slow-moving sea of cold fog. A frosted meadow breaks clear to the right, its pale green a quiet counterpoint to the amber and burgundy crowns emerging from the mist. The aerial perspective dissolves conventional landscape geometry, reducing the scene to colour, texture, and atmosphere.

Stranded Above the Cold Thames Valley From £55

A temperature inversion smothers the Thames valley near Wallingford, leaving only the crowns of riparian trees and the ghost of the river channel visible from altitude. The cool blue of open water mirrors the sky between successive fog banks, while amber willow stems provide the only warm note in an otherwise tonal composition. Captured at dusk in mid-December, the image reads as pure abstraction without surrendering its sense of place.

Mist by the River Thames Thames Valley From £55

A row of bare poplars divides two frost-covered arable fields near Abingdon-on-Thames, their long shadows cast by a low December sun ruling the foreground field into near-parallel lines. Viewed from directly above, the geometry of agriculture and winter light reduces the familiar to something close to graphic notation. The crack running through the frosted soil in the lower frame introduces a single note of irregularity.

Shadow Interval Thames Valley From £55

A temperature inversion rolls fog through a Thames floodplain valley near Abingdon, partially submerging riverside woodland in mid-winter light. Tree canopies break the fog surface, their bare branches catching warm low-angle illumination while the fields beyond remain clear. The aerial perspective compresses the layers into an almost painterly dissolution of land and cloud.

Valley Swallowed White Thames Valley From £55

A temperature inversion settles across the Thames Valley near Wallingford, submerging hedgerows and fields beneath a continuous white plane while isolated trees in late autumn / early winter colour rise through the fog layer. Shot at low drone altitude, the diagonal ridge of emerging woodland divides the composition, giving structure to an otherwise formless sea of mist. The pale warmth catching copper and amber crowns against the cool tonal frozen ground is what lifts this from record to image.

Copper Above the White Thames Valley From £55

A winter woodland on the Chiltern escarpment above Henley-on-Thames, caught from the air as low morning sun burns through fog from the south-east. The light cleaves the canopy along a near-diagonal axis, leaving conifers and bare deciduous crowns in cold shadow to the left while the right half dissolves into warm haze. A single illuminated pine at mid-frame anchors the transition between the two atmospheres.

Light Divides the Wood The Chilterns From £55

A low winter sun casts the elongated shadow of a roadside tree across ploughed and sown fields near Henley-on-Thames, the geometry bisected by a two-lane road and a single passing car. Shot from directly above at first light, the image sets a cooler, shadowed agricultural plain against warm haze dissolving the eastern field into near-abstraction. The solitary tree anchors the composition, its crown and shadow forming a single diagonal axis across the frame.

Shadow Before Mist The Chilterns From £55

A nadir aerial view over mixed deciduous woodland near Henley-on-Thames reveals the fragmented palette of late autumn: yellowing oak and field maple alongside bare-branched specimens and persistent evergreen scrub. Flat overcast light suppresses shadow and foregrounds the textural complexity of individual crowns, the dark forest floor visible between them lending depth to an otherwise planar composition.

Canopy in Transition The Chilterns From £55

An overhead view of mixed coniferous woodland near Henley-on-Thames in The Chiltern Hills reveals larch crowns turning gold among the evergreen spruce, the interplay of colour forming a natural mosaic across the canopy. Captured in mid-November as deciduous conifers approach peak colour loss, the flat overcast light suppresses shadow and flattens the composition into near-abstraction. The scatter of amber crowns punctuating deep green gives the image its only structural rhythm.

Gold Among the Spruce The Chilterns From £55

A mature deciduous tree photographed directly overhead from altitude above a field near Henley-on-Thames, its bare branch structure radiating outward like a neural network against a disc of amber and ochre fallen leaves. The surrounding cropped grassland, speckled with late wildflowers, frames the canopy as a self-contained form. Captured in mid-November, the image sits at the threshold between late autumn and winter dieback.

A Trees Neural Network Thames Valley From £55

A top-down aerial view from above woodlands in The Chiltern Hills reveals a sharp ecological boundary dividing open scrub & pale, lichen-silvered and sparsely autumn canopied from a dense stand of mature conifers in deep green. Captured in mid-November, the transitional foliage holds residual autumn yellows against the muted tones of approaching winter dormancy. The diagonal fault line between the two tree communities carries the composition without artifice.

The Boundary The Chilterns From £55

A temperature inversion holds low cloud among the autumn canopy of a Chiltern Hills woodland at dawn, the rising sun catching the mist from the south-east and warming the scene to amber. Photographed from altitude above Oxfordshire, the layered fog separates foreground trees from the open pasture beyond, creating a sequence of receding planes that dissolves into the glowing horizon. The restraint of the palette: amber, greens, and soft grey gives the image an unusual quietness for aerial work.

Cloud in the Canopy The Chilterns From £55

A temperature inversion fills the Val d'Orcia valleys with layered mist at dawn, isolating a hilltop farmstead and its cypress avenue as a lone silhouette against the rising sun. Aerial perspective compresses the rolling Sienese hills into receding tonal bands, the foreground fog mass anchoring the frame. Captured in the last minutes before the inversion burned clear.

Before It Burned Clear Val d'Orcia From £55

Low-lying fog pools between the rolling hills of the Val d'Orcia landscape at dawn, lit from behind by a rising sun still close to the horizon. A lone farmstead on an isolated hillock breaks the surface, anchoring the composition amid the dissolving mist. The image was captured from altitude, compressing the layered landforms into a quiet, painterly sequence of receding planes.

A Hillock in the Crete Senesi Val d'Orcia From £55

Dawn mist pools in the valleys of the Crete Senesi, leaving isolated hilltop farms and cypress lines as dark silhouettes against the rising sun. A temperature inversion holds the fog in the hollows, creating layered planes that recede toward the horizon. Captured by drone at first light on a still September morning.

Valley Fog, Asciano Val d'Orcia From £55

A ring of cypress trees emerges from a valley fog inversion above San Quirico d'Orcia, the circular grove reduced to a near-abstract island adrift in white. A winding track curves around its base before disappearing into the mist, while the Tuscan hills hold the fog's upper boundary in the far distance. The monochrome conversion strips the scene to form, tone, and stillness.

The Ring at San Quirico Val d'Orcia From £55

A farmstead near Monteroni d'Arbia emerges through a break in low-lying fog, its terracotta roof caught in early morning light while the surrounding Tuscan fields dissolve into cloud. The circular driveway and fence line anchor the composition, framing a moment of fleeting clarity within the inversion layer.

Island in Fog Val d'Orcia From £55

Ground-level inversions pool between the rolling hills of the Val d'Orcia at dawn, the mist threading between tree lines and farmland as the sky ignites above the distant Apennine ridge. Shot from altitude, the layered recession of fog, hill and cloud gives the scene its depth. Autumn colour is still emerging in the canopy below.

Threaded With Mist Val d'Orcia From £55

A small ornamental island on the Thames near Henley, viewed directly from above through drifting autumn mist. The neoclassical pavilion sits at the island's centre, surrounded by trees in full turn, while a lone sculler passes on the still water beyond. The low cloud partially obscuring the frame gives the image an accidental painterly quality.

Island in Mist Thames Valley From £55

A temperature inversion traps dense mist in the valley below Henley-on-Thames, the canopy of mixed deciduous woodland emerging from the fog bank as dawn light warms the eastern sky. Conifers along the ridge-line break the fog surface in a ragged silhouette, separating cool blue shadow below from the peach and amber of the rising sun. The aerial perspective collapses the familiar into something close to abstraction.

Trapped Below Henley The Chilterns From £55

A double rainbow descends through a breaking storm cell over the pastoral patchwork south of Henley-on-Thames, the inner arc saturated against a dark cumulonimbus curtain while virga trails beneath the cloud base. The elevated drone viewpoint compresses arc and storm into a single geometrically forceful frame. Captured late afternoon in the aftermath of a convective summer storm.

Double Arc, Henley The Chilterns From £55

At low tide, braided channels carve sinuous lines across the tidal flats of a sea loch in Durness, Sutherland, the warm golden sand contrasting with thin slivers of pewter-grey water. Beyond, a patchwork of moorland and machair gives way to a receding line of mountains under a clear spring sky. The aerial vantage flattens the scene into near-abstraction while retaining the scale of the Highland interior.

The Durness Estuary from Above Assynt From £55

An overhead view of open gneiss transitioning into boreal woodland on the Cairngorms plateau, captured in flat summer light. Sparse conifers punctuate the peatland surface, while a thin drainage channel traces a branching line through the saturated ground. The absence of shadow and the muted palette flatten the scene, limiting tonal separation.

Gneiss Landscape Cairngorms National Park From £55

A tidal headland on the north-west Scottish coast, photographed from altitude in late evening light. Folded ancient gneiss strata radiate outward like fins from a grass-capped central plateau, while ancient lazybeds score the turf in parallel ridges. The surrounding sea shifts from deep indigo to shallow turquoise where sand lies beneath the surface.

Serrated Edge, Atlantic Coastline Assynt From £55

The incredible landscape of North West Scotland, here seen from above with my drone. The distant mountains, the calm blue ocean, clear pastel sky and white beaches below all combine together into a magical sunset capture of this dramatic landscape.

Sunset over Assynt Assynt From £55

A temperature inversion buries the Thames Valley in The Chiltern Hills beneath a continuous fog layer at first light, leaving wooded ridgelines as isolated islands above the white. Warm sunrise light rakes across the mist from the west-northwest, splitting the frame between amber and a cool blue residue of night sky to the east. The compression of aerial perspective draws the fog into a near-abstract surface interrupted only by the dark crowns of emergent trees.

Ridgelines Above the Valley The Chilterns From £55

A serpentine mountain pass cuts through a snow-covered conifer forest above Cortina d'Ampezzo, photographed directly overhead at midday. The cleared asphalt road forms a continuous sinuous line across the white ground plane, its curves repeated with near-graphic regularity. Snow between the trees flattens the scene into a high-contrast pattern of grey, white, and dark green.

Switchbacks in Snow The Dolomites From £55

A temperature inversion fills the valley below Abingdon at dawn, submerging bare winter woodland beneath a continuous fog layer while a solitary tree-crowned hill emerges as an island above the white. The monochrome conversion reinforces the tonal separation between the dark filigree of leafless canopy in the foreground and the luminous, backlit mist beyond.

Filigree Brightwell Barrow From £55

Crepuscular rays penetrate a fog layer over bare-branched woodland near Abingdon-on-Thames, caught from altitude at first light on a frost-held March morning. The diagonal ridgeline of trees divides warm amber light above from cold blue shadow below, the mist acting as a screen on which the beams are made legible. An aerial vantage strips the scene to pure atmosphere and structure.

Rays Through the Canopy Thames Valley From £55

A solitary small group of trees casts a long dark shadow across a fog-covered arable field on the slopes of Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, as low winter sunrise strikes horizontally through the mist. The aerial perspective reduces the scene to near-pure geometry: a diagonal line of darkness dividing cold blue shadow from warm amber light. The tree reads as both subject and instrument, the agent producing the image's central tension.

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The Long Shadow Brightwell Barrow From £55

A partially frozen lochan holds open water against a snow-covered Caledonian pine forest near Aviemore, Cairngorms, as low winter sun rakes long tree shadows across the white ground. The organic curve of the water body anchors the composition, its dark surface contrasting sharply with the luminous snowfield. Warm backlight from the south dissolves the valley into haze, lending depth to an otherwise monochrome terrain.

Long Shadows over the Caledonian Forest Cairngorms National Park From £55

A temperature inversion buries the glens beneath the Glencoe Buachaille in a still sea of cloud, leaving the rocky summit emerging into first light above. The crescent moon holds its position in a steel-blue sky as alpenglow catches the peak's upper ridgeline. The surrounding peaks glow red from the sunrise.

First Light on the Buachaille Glencoe From £55

A temperature inversion fills Glen Etive and Glencoe at dawn, leaving Buachaille Etive Beag isolated above a smooth sea of cloud. Shot from an elevated drone position above the eastern ridge, the pyramid peak catches the first warm light against a sky still holding the blue of night. The foreground slope anchors the composition, giving scale to the suspended cloudscape below.

Buachaille Above the Inversion From £55

From the drone’s unique perspective, Vietnams island town of Phu Quoc emerges as a vibrant tapestry of narratives. The turquoise river is the crucial artery of this town, hosting many fishing boats, some heading out to sea. On land, a mosaic forms – buildings, trees, and roads create harmony, leaving no inch of land unused. To me, this is where stories unfurl: the lives behind the structures, the journeys of boats and cars, and the whispers of history. This is what i love about drone photography, the perspectives which otherwise would be impossible.

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Phu Quoc's Vibrant Tapestry Duong Dong, Phu Quoc From £55