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Sunday MTB’ing
With the new eMTB providing a newfound sense of freedom I enjoyed 30 miles of some local bridleway loops (the latter one with Jack joining me).
By Ben Seymour Date: 23rd July 2023
Brightwell, up One Tree Hill, down to Shillingford, then over to Wittenham and Day’s Lock, before heading out to Dorchester, under the road to Warborough, out to Benson before looping back over the Shillingford bridge up the back way and back round to Brightwell.
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Snowmobiling on Langjökull Glacier
Video from the GoPro mounted on my shoulder as we sped along the glacier during a snowstorm!
By Ben Seymour Date: 8th April 2023
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Coldplay lightshow
As well as a superb performance from Coldplay the visual lightshow was also remarkable - each of the 80,000 LED wristbands meant it became a really immersive experience.
By Ben Seymour Date: 12th August 2022
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Single-seater Thruxton onboard
Thruxton has started using insta360 cameras for the on-board footage, here is Bens from the single-seater, including someone in front having a spin
By Ben Seymour Date: 17th October 2021
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Flying over the treetops
With the increased confidence that the DJI mavic mini 2 brings in terms of connection stability, I was much happier sending the drone further away and for longer periods of time on this trip.
By Ben Seymour Date: 19th August 2021
Looking straight down on to the treetops and slowly moving across the valley gives a wonderful new perspective to the area
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Drone hyperlapse of The Thames
While we enjoyed sitting at the bank after our canoe - I left the drone at 110m taking video of the scenes below of the bend in the river
By Ben Seymour Date: 30th May 2021
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4am dawn chorus
I’d rather be asleep, but at least nature is at least providing a glorious soundtrack to this time of the morning. #DawnChorus [volume up]
By Ben Seymour Date: 2nd May 2021
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Soaring above the treetops
Cracking drone video from the lovely bike ride that Em and I went on
By Ben Seymour Date: 19th April 2021
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Regatta division 2 finish
More drone footage from the Wallingford mini regatta (Jack was in the octo for this race)
By Ben Seymour Date: 18th April 2021
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Blewburton hill drone flyby
We’ve found a new lovely walking path - a loop that takes us all the way around Blewburton hill, through the Astons, and then back up near the horse paddocks.
By Ben Seymour Date: 7th April 2021
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Drone Video - Mackney Farm woods
Up close the buds are forming on the branches of the trees - but from above, they still look bare and skeletal. I love the different perspective that the drone offers, especially of trees.
By Ben Seymour Date: 20th March 2021
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Down and Up
Glorious sunset on the way home, and so we were experimenting with some drone shots, just south of Blewburton Hill
By Ben Seymour Date: 23rd January 2021
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The Clouds parting for the Conjunction
Writing this on the 21st (the closest approach day) we have complete rain and cloud and no visibility, and so I am really grateful that we were able to see the jupiter / saturn conjunction yesterday - but for a while yesterday it looked like we would be unlucky.
By Ben Seymour Date: 20th December 2020
This hyperlapse shows just how fortunate we were to get to see it at all!
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Lap Land Hyperlapse
With so many covid restrictions impacting our usual festive celebrations and trip, we were thrilled when we were able to come and enjoy Silverstone's 'Lap Land' - enabling us to drive around the whole of the international circuit, which had huge numbers of breathtaking laser light shows. Such a glorious evening, then followed by a drive-in movie showing of The Snowman.
By Ben Seymour Date: 18th December 2020
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Drone ascent near Blewburton
After a lovely stroll around Blewbury, we stopped on the way back, to enjoy some drone shots of Blewburton Hill with the golden sun rays at the end of the day.
By Ben Seymour Date: 12th December 2020
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Swincombe drone video
Following an unplanned trip to Ewelme, I ended up heading up to Swincombe (partially to get outside of the RAF base restriction zone) - to try some new drone techniques - and also to see if I have managed to improve the connection reliability after yesterday's issues.
By Ben Seymour Date: 23rd November 2020
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Lockdown Surprise Fireworks
No fireworks display this year due to covid precautions (and national lockdown)..... however, from an undisclosed location, our lovely local pyrotechnics company put on an amazing show - which appeared to be just out the back of our street!
By Ben Seymour Date: 7th November 2020
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Forest Ascent
We loved exploring the river down at the foot of the valley, and the drone gives some amazing perspectives as it climbs up to the tree tops
By Ben Seymour Date: 9th August 2020
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Skirrid Clouds Dancing
The four of us sat for quite a while, soaking up the outlook afforded by the elevation, and just watching the cloud’s shadows dance over the black mountains
By Ben Seymour Date: 3rd August 2020
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Insect Hotel slo-mo
Zoe and I got some exercise and cycled out to Ewelme, where we came across this insect hotel by the watercress beds - which was a hive of activity.
By Ben Seymour Date: 3rd May 2020
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Rainy dawn chorus under canopy
Rain under canopy at 5am with dawn chorus.(I’d rather be asleep, but this was pretty glorious to behold this morning).
By Ben Seymour Date: 28th April 2020
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Morning Birdsong
The absence of most regular air traffic, including almost no helicopters for RAF Benson, along with greatly reduced road traffic, means that nature is able to flourish, and we can enjoy the sights and sounds unhindered.
By Ben Seymour Date: 19th April 2020
The Sunday morning birdsong in the nook is amazing - turn up the volume on this video and enjoy :) (the image is a still)
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Garden Breakfast birds
One of the upsides of the current lockdown is the abundance of time and space we have to enjoy our own garden - we get way more birds visiting our garden than I can previously recall.
By Ben Seymour Date: 19th April 2020
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England’s try against Ireland
England’s second try, against Ireland in the 2020 Six Nations
By Ben Seymour Date: 23rd February 2020
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San Francisco sunset
This time, the hotel in SF gave me a way way nicer room than I’ve had before, and I arrived and checked in just in time for sunset.
By Ben Seymour Date: 11th January 2020
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Snow Patrol (Video)
By some considerable good fortune, earlier this week we discovered that one of my favourite bands Snow Patrol were playing in Oxford and that there were still seats left. This was part of their Reworked Tour, and it was exquisite - the first half, slow, quiet and sultry - the second half much more lively and with everyone standing and dancing in the New Theatre in Oxford.
By Ben Seymour Date: 16th November 2019
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Slo-Mo Fireworks
Despite the rain the Wallingford Fireworks were brilliant again this year. Set to music and with a prevailing wind were right overhead
By Ben Seymour Date: 3rd November 2019
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Dawn Chorus
One of the few benefits of happening to awake at 4am is being able to listen to the local wildlife start their day.
By Ben Seymour Date: 27th June 2019
At 4.20am in June the cacophony of sound from the birdlife out the back of our house was quite wonderful - crank up the volume and enjoy.
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Flying Scotsman
at short notice we learned that the flying Scotsman was passing through Didcot, and so we popped over, just in time to see it arrive!
By Ben Seymour Date: 15th June 2019
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Stereophonics
Em & I spent the evening at Westonbirt Arboretum - watching Stereophonics! We met up with the sisters and brothers-in-law and had an amazing time hanging out, and thanks to where we pitched up, we had an incredible view just a handful of people away from the band. Listening to them play in the surroundings of a beautiful arboretum was pretty surreal.
By Ben Seymour Date: 13th June 2019
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Grossglockner: incredible Austrian mountain roads
From our roadtrip in summer of 2018 - this mountain pass took around 2 hours, with the Grossglockner section being phenomenal.
By Ben Seymour Date: 25th August 2018
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Cycling the Silverstone Circuit
During the 2017 MotoGP season, on free practice friday, Jack and I sweet-talked our way into getting permission to cycle a lap of the full Silverstone international race circuit.
By Ben Seymour Date: 25th August 2017
Utterly amazing, and one of the stand-out moments of all time.
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Head full of dreams
Coldplay toured the world in 2017, and Em & I were fortunate enough to get tickets for the Cardiff performance. Playing to 70,000 it was one of the most spectacular performances I have ever seen
By Ben Seymour Date: 17th July 2017
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The One Show - with Dad
Dad (Paul Johnson) had his ‘5 minutes of fame’ when he appeared on The One Show in December 2017. With around 5 million viewer it was an amazing opportunity for people to learn about ‘Paper Engineering’ and for his ‘pop-up books’ to be showcased to a national audience.
By Ben Seymour Date: 12th December 2007