MARCH 2025 - Drone pilot on a music video for Beluga Lagoon

Another few days filming with Beluga Laggon. We had a fun few days as we paddled into a remote spot in the Scottish Highlands to film some night scenes and bad weather scenes for a man lost somewhere remote. I never really know entirely what I’m filming when doing these with Andrew and the story is in his head and often they are a little wacky the stories until you see them then sometimes they are a little less wacky when on screen with the music. But sometimes not lol.

Blaine was our main character here but Mark had come along for the banter anyway and ended up as chief smoke machine operator. I mean an actual smoke machine not a euphemism. We got some great shots of Blaine and some fun making my drone carry a little bunch of lights that were to represent some weird object in the night sky for Blaine to follow. It looked pretty good through the ground cameras. Few pics below.

Our paddle out was pretty horrendous in a head wind and complete pishing with rain. Underwear wet in 20 mins type rain. But we made it. Took 30 minutes to paddle in and 3.5 hrs to paddle out hahaha.

Blaine doing a bit of acting

The bad weather comes in for a bit:)

Blaine following the mysterious light

April 2024 - Aerial Filming in Benidorm, Spain for Dana TV show.

A brilliant two weeks away in the sun to film series 4 of Dana for BBC ALBA. This time Coinneach heads abroad for some climbing. His partner is fellow Gaelic speaker Somhairle who is a bit newer to climbing but is very keen. Also a Tiktoker with 55k followers!

The same Solus Production team was assembled with Hamish directing and main camera, Rich Parker doing safety, myself on drone and Rowan producing. Additionally we had Becky join the safety team for this trip.

Benidorm I had only heard of as a popular British beach destination and I hadn’t realised until we arrived there just how good the climbing is all around here and the mountaineering. Unfortunately we had a bit of flu within the group with mainly Kenny so we had to cut the trip short to head back again to complete the episodes.

Have to say it was so good to see the sun after such a terrible wet and windy winter in Scotland. here’s hoping for more sun:) A few pics below of our time there:)

Sella Valley

The whole team Bottom to top Sorely, Kenny, Rich, Hamish, Becky and me.