An award-winning filmmaker has captured stunning drone footage of the hidden gems dotted around Scotland's coastline.
Celebrating Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the film by leading landscape photographer Jason Baxter has been launched for free to help businesses promote Scotland post-lockdown.
Entitled ‘Scotland’s Coast’, it aims to reconnect people with the natural beauty of Scotland’s coastline.
At just over four and a half minutes long, the clip was created using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and to help promote Scotland and the 6160 miles of spectacular scenery that lines the coast.
Available to be used for free by anyone that needs the clip - which can be found here - contains a specially produced soundscape and no commentary so that it can be used universally.
Speaking of the film, Jason explained that the need to maintain Scotland's beautiful scenery is is part of our "unique heritage", he said: " We are so fortunate to have such wonderful unspoilt and unparalleled landscapes in Scotland, that’s a key part of the film: to remind people of what we are entrusted with and the need to safeguard it for future generations.
"With the impact of lockdown across the country, I am hoping the tourism sector will want to use this film to highlight the natural beauty of Scotland’s coast and promote the country as a great tourism and business location."
The footage includes castles, beaches and lighthouses across the country, including Luskentyre beach on the Isle of Harris, Aberlady Bay in East Lothian and a remote lighthouse at Tarbat Ness in Tain.
Thanks to Scotland’s notoriously changeable weather conditions, filming with a drone can often be challenging with small windows of opportunity to capture shots.
As such, Jason explained that it took him over 2 years to create, including editing time over lockdown.
