Winter landscapes are stunning up here. I particularly like getting images that contrast lower levels devoid of snow with higher ground covered in snow...often the difference can be seen as a stark line: on the one side the gray of land devoid of snow and within just a few feet the other side there is deep virgin snow. Stunning.
In the Pennines there are plenty of contrasts like this. On the higher moors there are few, if any, trees. I can take off from a high hill and shoot video of a completely treeless landscape then fly down the hill and my video is awash with countless trees. One such place is only a mile or so away from where I'm sat now.
I'm a bit soft when it comes to cold weather. I don't do well when it's hot with temperatures up towards 30C but I do just as badly when the temperature is down towards freezing...so much so that if it's cold outside I need to put sticking plasters over my nipples because they get hard and sore in the cold! For this reason I don't tend to get many images or video of snowscapes these days, however I did do alot a couple of years ago using Phantoms. Most notable was in early 2015 when I managed to make a couple of very striking aerial videos on Crompton Moor.
At the risk of attracting the wrath of some other forum members here is a completion of some of those early 2015 flights shot using a P2V. A simple gimbal on this aircraft so video is not as stable as we would expect these days. A bit on the long side this video at 5:28 length, but a good sequence can be found at time 2:08 minutes.
