 |
Drone technology has really enhanced video photography. It gives us a whole new perspective on beautiful places that we love to see, places that we only used to see at ground level. And so here we see some amazing aerial views of St Ives in West Cornwall, all captured by West Country local Duncan Scobie. Filmed last Summer in 2019, he was probably controlling his drone from the headland around Carbis Bay overlooking Carbis Bay Beach with some great views of the adjoining St Ives Harbour Beach and the Island, although sadly no views of the majestic Porthmeor Beach behind the Island as video drones clearly have their distance limits. Sadly the County of Cornwall took quite a hit in high levels of coronavirus and locals were understandably angry that once the Lockdown was announced it caused a great exodus by over 50,000 second home owners keen to get out of London and other big cities to the supposed safety of Cornwall. Even top tv chef Gordon Ramsay faced hostility from his neighbours when he moved his family down to the North Cornish coast to see out the rest of the lockdown, although he claimed that he drove down there before the lockdown was announced. As it stands now the Cornish tourism industry is under huge pressure to open for July and August bookings or it's believed that eight out of ten businesses will go under. CORNISH LOCALS ANGRY AT SECOND HOME OWNERS GORDON RAMSAY FACES ANGER FROM NEIGHBOURS ABOVE VIDEO BY DUNCAN SCOBIE |
|
| Above is a rather clean shaven BBC tv weatherman Ben Rich from a couple of years ago around the time that another pandemic broke out at the BBC when nearly all it's male tv news and weather presenters grew beards. The trend seemed so rampant, it was almost as if some of them didn't want to feel left out. Anyway, in the image above Ben is telling us about a rare day indeed when cloud shrouded the whole of Great Britain but the sun shone only on West Cornwall on that given day. |
