Postcards from Windmill Hill Golf Course. Swipe for a nice little putt at the end >>
It’s got such a bad rep but it’s a stunning course!! The new owners are making some much needed repairs and updates.
I grew up next to this golf course. Spending my weekends cycling my bike up and down the paths running alongside it to my Grandparents house to eat hotdogs and watch Dragon Ball Z, often sneaking out onto the golf course with my brother and cousins to explore… and… steal balls… as a golfer now, I lose enough balls on my own without a 10 year old sneaking on to nick them!
I’m hoping doing a little bit of golf work lets me spend more time out there exploring other courses, getting a chance to play a few more, and a good chance to lose more balls. It’s probably karma for pocketing so many.
Absolutely love the blue skies, green green grass and golden hour glow from these shots here. 🏌️♂️🌳🌞
My latest hobby? Golf!
Time with friends, great scenery, hitting balls as hard as you can! (That sounds kind of weird) What’s not to like?
So recently I went out one sunny evening to capture some of the slower moments on the course and show off just how beautiful Windmill Hill Golf Centre is. Friends moving hole to hole, swings on the fairway, that final putt to complete the hole.
This here felt like a hole in one, three friends making their way around the course, sun shining, another player making his way up the course in the distance. Beaut.
I need to clean my clubs and get back out there myself.
Some interviews you really need to coax people out of their shells a little bit, and some the interviewee just brings their passion with them out of the gate!
Bill from @miltonkeynesmuseum is someone who is hugely passionate about what he does and you can see that in every word from his interview on the @bradwellwindmillproject
People like this are great to work with, watching anyone talk passionately is highly engaging and Bill has a real respect for history and heritage and the importance of preserving these sites to share with future generations.
Originally we chopped the doc into its natural segments for social release, however with awesome soundbites like this, Bill deserves his own reel.
And possibly a few more.
Maybe even his own show.
Here are some postcards of Bradwell Windmill for the @bradwellwindmillproject - a selection of my favourite shots of the windmill itself.
We wanted the doc to be quite calm and still like the windmill itself, frozen in time. This lead us to capture an array of moving stills to use as assets across socials, locked off camera, subtle movement, wind, leaves and birds.
It was a real challenge trying to find different interesting angles of the same building but I think I pulled off quite a few here! It’s a beautiful monument, and it was a pleasure to work with. As were the birds.
I recently shot a documentary for the @bradwellwindmillproject with a whole host of supporting reels and digital postcards for use across their social accounts.
One of my favourite little cuts was this simple demonstration on making a corn dolly, or countryman’s favour, by my good friend @callaghanroisin who hates being on camera, but since this was just her handy work, it wasn’t much of an issue.
Wheat craft is an endangered red listed heritage craft, so it’s important we make an effort to share these skills in order to preserve them for future generations. Hopefully by digitising it AI can learn how to make a corn dolly too!
