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Horizon Imaging was recently commissioned to photograph a beautiful converted 13th Century barn in the village of Ickleton, near Cambridge. The barn, together with one of the neighbouring ‘modern barns’, is now being used by medical technology company Team Consulting. As part of their brand identity, Team Consulting were looking for ways to show off their beautiful building and its proximity to the surrounding countryside – something which could not be achieved using traditional ground-level photographs.

As the number of people looking to offer commercial aerial photography services using drones (or “small unmanned surveillance aircraft” to give them their official CAA title) continues to rise, I often get asked what regulations operators have to follow.

All the regulations governing commercial “aerial work” (any work involving unmanned aerial platforms for commercial gain) are contained within the CAA document ‘CAP 393 – Air Navigation: The Order and the Regulations’.

Horizon Imaging was recently commissioned to produce an introductory video for the commercial troubleshooting company, Executive Commercial.


Just like the introductory video on our homepage, the video had to be short, concise, and professionally filmed and edited.

Aerial Photography using unmanned model helicopters or ‘drones’ is becoming the next big differentiator in marketing campaigns, and with a growing number of companies offering these low-altitude Aerial Photography services, how do you know who to choose?

Climate change is happening, there is very little doubt about that these days. However, whilst governments and industry are trying to do their bit to reduce the effects, it is just as much the responsibility of small business owners – and the general public – to do their bit to reduce their impact on the environment in whatever ways they can.

Horizon Imaging recently contacted the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) to see if they would be interested in featuring an article about the fascinating developments in aerial photography using unmanned aerial platforms over the last 10 years, and how David Hogg’s early experiments back in 2006 eventually led to the creation of Horizon Imaging.

As part of Horizon Imaging’s commitment to only using the best technology for capturing our aerial photographs, we have recently invested in a brand new aerial photography platform, the ‘Octocopter’. Compared to our current ‘Hexacopter’, this platform will:

Horizon Imaging was recently commissioned to take some aerial photographs of a roof in Worthing, West Sussex to help settle an insurance claim for a water leak believed to have been caused by storm damage. The only problem was that the roof was hidden from view by a large Victorian facade which made it impossible for traditional vehicle-mounted telescopic masts to access the potential areas of damage – they can only go straight up and they can only operate from the roadside.

Horizon Imaging has worked on several projects over the years where our aerial photographs have been used as the backdrop to computer-generated models of buildings – something unheard of before the advent of powerful 3D modelling software. In every instance, these images have then been used to advertise properties that had not even been built.

The art of taking photographs does not end after you have pressed the shutter button – it has only just begun!

Just like in the film-developing darkroom where you could dodge and burn areas of photographs to preserve or enhance details – or even superimpose features that were never there – the digital darkroom is still where most of the magic of photography happens today.