Harvest 2014 from the sky...

[jamesfalky]

Some photos I have taken with my DJI Phantom 2 and GoPro Hero 3+ Black on my family farm (I actually work elsewhere but my harvest role is chief photographer), not the best as I am still missing my gimbal after it broke during a software update and sent it back to Buzzflyer for repair and haven't heard back from them in the 2 months they have had it (definitely not recommending Buzzflyer to anyone thinking on buying one!). A video or two to follow in the coming weeks when i get round to editing the video footage (poor quality due to lack of gimbal) I took in what spare time I had!


Okay so this one isn't strictly from the sky, but it is one of my favourites I have taken this harvest

Cutting Barley

Again cutting barley, facing towards the village of Huggate, the camera doesn't really show the hills very well

Cutting barley mid July near Rudston, one of my favourites from the sky

Same Field near Rudston

Cutting Istabraq wheat at Huggate, East Yorkshire with a New Holland CR9080

Working down winter barley stubbles for drilling OSR with a Sumo Trio 4.5 pulled by a Challenger MT765B

 

[bert]

How does the combine go Falky? We got your old one (cx880) and picked it up from your farm at Huggate maybe 4 years ago? it has been excellent

 

[jamesfalky]

The only video I have made with the Phantom so far, this was my first flight out with it back in May so the footage was a little ropey

 

[jamesfalky]

@bert the combine goes well, eats wheat like nobodies business! yeah that will have been ours! hows the old girl going?

 

[bert]

@bert the combine goes well, eats wheat like nobodies business! yeah that will have been ours! hows the old girl going?

Well I would like to finish harvest before I say too much but its been absolutely outstanding! Could do with the one photo'd above when your finished haha

 

[jamesfalky]

@bert we still have a few acres left to knock down yet, not too many though thankfully! haha I doubt she will be leaving us for a while, she's still got plenty of seasons left in her yet!

 

[Niels]

Ref. the hills not showing in the pictures. You can download free (GoPro) software to pull the fish eye image straight and show a more normal photo.

 

[Beckbury Ben]

Cracking pictures, well done

 

[jamesfalky]

Working Stubbles with a Pottinger Terradisc and NH T7.270 Blue Power, beginning to get back into liking using the SLR camera again!

By the time I had got the quadcopter out the sun had gone in so the pictures from the drone are a little washed out and colourless, but still add a different perspective to the pictures